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Our biologists, environmental scientists and planners, and foresters have vast experience in threatened and endangered species, wetlands, ecotoxicology, NEPA, geospatial imagery, data management, and more.
We encourage innovation that enhances our natural resource services and helps clients meet project goals. And in all our work, we uphold an uncompromising code of ethics and follow demanding processes.
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Copperhead folks fly planes, explore caves, and rappel down cliffs to track and study bats. Often, they work by moonlight or flashlight. That spirit of adventure has landed Steve Samoray—Copperhead wildlife biologist and pilot—on the pages of Night Magic, a book about “marvels of the night” by best-selling author Leigh Ann Henion.
Henion recounts how Samoray (at right in the photo, with wildlife biologist Price Sewell) and the Copperhead team tracked a tricolored bat, pursuing it for days from the air and through the mountains. The author also introduces Copperhead Consulting as being best known for creating an artificial roost for bats (BrandenBark™).
Steve, who has some cool quotes and a laid-back Indiana Jones vibe in the book, is described as “a lanky guy with shaggy gray hair that makes him seem more surfer than snake handler.”
Based out of Copperhead’s Nashville, Tennessee, office, Steve has yet to surf Mavericks, the famous waves at Half Moon Bay, California. But you never know, brah.
#batconservation #wildlifebiologist #naturewriting
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Here's a link to order the book: www.amazon.com/Night-Magic-Adventures-Glowworms-Gardens/dp/1643753363
How awesome. Steve’s one of the coolest dudes I know!
Education is the cornerstone of our success. At Copperhead, we believe you can’t start early enough, and you should never stop.
Here, young Porter works on tree identification with Amanda Gumbert, PhD, of the University of Kentucky Soil and Water Quality Extension Team.
#EnvironmentalEducation #TreeIdentification #OutdoorLearning
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Learn all u can porter
Wow! Amazing!
A few evenings ago, Wildlife Biologist Les Meade led a group of Copperhead summer technicians through the delicate steps of mist-net capture, measurements, and safe release at the site of a bat maternity colony. Our team counted 31 big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) leaving a BrandenBark™ artificial roost near Copperhead headquarters in Paint Lick, Kentucky.
The team interrupted dinner for three of them, all healthy pregnant females, but data collection went smoothly, and the bats were soon on their way.
#batconservation #wildliferesearch #bigbrownbat
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Hello to Les and crew!