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As a professional biologist, educator, backyard nature expert, long-time birder, accomplished traveler, former wholesale sales manager and long-time sport optics fan, I'm now working two part-time dream jobs. I get to take people out and show them birds, habitat and other critters with Reefs to Rockies LLC, a woman-owned Tour company based in Boulder County, Colorado. I'm also contracting with my former employer, Opticron optics, to attend birding festivals and optics sales, as well as handle incoming customer service calls and emails from Opticron dealers and end-users in North America. My background includes extensive experience in bird feeding products and optics sales; bird tour-leading; trade show exhibiting; research project management, planning and logistics; local and federal land management; biological research; GIS; formal and informal science and environmental education; wholesale, retail and contract sales; and non-profit fundraising, I strive to make a difference and be proud of my contributions, all while taking advantage of "teachable moments" as they present themselves.Specialties: The use of Social Media to support a cause or product, Nonprofit program management, Research project management, Travel planning and logistics, Document editing and formatting, Sport optics sales, Bird Feeder, Bath, Nestbox, and Accessory expertise, and Attracting wildlife to backyards (see the links below.) Outside of work I spend time traveling, birding, skiing, tossing balls to Maybelle - my labrador/golden retriever mix, craft beer and wine tasting, homebrewing, and attending music festivals. I enjoying binging movies and shows on various streaming platforms as well.
Opticron
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- opticron.co.uk
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Prostaffer And Customer Service RepresentativeOpticron Feb 2022 - Present
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Lead Naturalist Guide And Domestic Trip CuratorReefs To Rockies Feb 2022 - Present
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Birding Tour GuideReefs To Rockies Dec 2016 - Feb 2022Colorado, United States
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General ManagerFront Range Birding Company Aug 2014 - Aug 2020Greater Denver AreaThe Front Range Birding Company is the largest independent bird feeding and birding store in the Greater Denver Metro area. Former owner, Tom Bush, was a fixture in birding circles in Littleton and the surrounding area but as a retired pilot for United with home health duties, he needed someone to step in and turn sagging sales around. With new displays, strong new additions to the feeder, bath, and nestbox inventory, and a big kick in optics sales with inventory from Kowa, Swarovski, Leica, Zeiss, Vortex, and Opticron, we experienced unprecedented success, especially with our push to take the optics show on the road to regional birding festivals. It was a pleasure working for and with Tom and the rest of his staff, especially as they expanded from monthly free bird walks into national birding tours in cooperation with Reefs to Rockies. We opened a new location in Boulder, CO in late 2018 and it was profitable in its 1st year. Forced shutdown due to the pandemic led us to pivot to online sales with drop-ships from 2 distributors. We rapidly built out a full webstore that kept us afloat in March and April of 2020. They eventually scaled back online offerings to better reflect their in-store stock after opening in late April for curbside pickup-only, followed by in-store shopping, with restrictions, after early May 2020. Continued in-store restrictions and the hospitalization and eventual death of my father led me to leave the store in late Aug of 2020. I still work with the new owners to exhibit and sell optics at regional birding festivals.
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PresidentNature Optics Llc May 2012 - Jan 2017Arvada, Colorado, United StatesI was excited to expand the role of Nature Optics into the birding festival marketplace. By bringing together products useful to birders, hunters, wildlife observers and outdoorspersons from companies like Opticron, Novagrade, Stedi-stock, Rick Young Outdoors, Birder Chicks and others, Nature Optics had what you needed to enhance your viewing, digiscoping and phonescoping photography, and overall experience out of doors. I might have been able to make a go of it with deeper pockets and a fuller schedule of events but after a year, travel (and life) expenses vs. profit forced me to pull out of the business.
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Pro Staff And Festival ContractorOpticron Dec 2015 - Dec 2016Huntersville, NcI represented Opticron at numerous birding festivals primarily in the central and western US during 2016 in conjunction with Nature Optics, LLC. I exhibited and sold Opticron optics, led birding festival field trips and gave "Optics 101" talks to help consumers choose the best birding optics for them as well. This contract was then picked up by Front Range Birding Company, with me still as the primary, into 2020.
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Pro Staff And Festival ContractorNovagrade Aug 2014 - Nov 2016Portland, Oregon AreaI was responsible for spreading the word about Novagrade's incredible compression-fit universal digiscoping adapters for DSLRs, smartphones, and tablets. Through connections with retail contacts and end users at some of the largest birding festivals in the country, I strived to show how easy it is to take great photographs and video through your spotting scope or binocular (OR MICROSCOPE) and persuade folks to take one home! I also contributed to Novagrade's social media outlets. With their new small diameter eyepiece collet set, these adapters can now work with smaller binoculars, telescopes, and microscopes. Smartphones in the classroom projecting microscope images to a smart TV is a great way to save instruction time and get students more interested in the subject matter. I wholly support this great product and great company. -
Tour Sales And Copy EditorPartnership For International Birding Jun 2015 - Aug 2015Greater Denver AreaI was thoroughly excited to be working with this well-respected company offering both domestic and international birding tours. PIB partners with some of the best guides and tour companies around the globe to offer excellent birding adventures at excellent prices. I started by editing tour descriptions and other PIB materials and convincing folks to come along on one of PIB's tours but left when the position changed to straight commission.
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Us Sales ManagerOpticron Mar 2012 - Feb 2014Greater Denver AreaMy role involved introducing Opticron's fine products to a new audience in the United States. I exhibited binoculars, monoculars, spotting scopes and accessories to the general public, primarily at birding festivals and the like, and also searched for retailers to stock and sell Opticron products through brick-and-mortar and online stores.I was also responsible for contributing to Opticron's social media outlets and promoting the brand wherever possible.As someone who could not sell something I didn't believe in, I am genuinely impressed with the range, quality, price, and performance of Opticron's optics. 46 years (now 54) in the industry in Britain has fine-tuned their offerings making them a fantastic value for the birder, hunter, general nature enthusiast, and sports and performance art aficionado. The company maxim "Smaller, Lighter, Brighter, Sharper" sure holds true in my eyes. It was a pleasure to work for such a fine company.
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Director Of Education And Outreach, Field Events Coordinator, Birders' Exchange CoordinatorAmerican Birding Association May 2007 - Aug 2011Colorado Springs, Colorado Area• Started ABA's foray into social media on Twitter and Facebook• Planned, organized and carried out ABA's youth education programs, including summer camps.• Represented ABA at numerous birding festivals. Led numerous birding field trips.• Planned Field Trips for conventions and conferences• Fundraised for youth programs• Managed inventory database and coordinated outgoing equipment grant shipments to couriers for projects in Latin America and the Caribbean -
Contract And Consulting BiologistSelf-Employed Temporary Project Biologist Mar 2000 - May 2007• Conservation easement assessment and compliance monitoring for North American Land Trust – southeastern US.• High elevation riparian bird counts for University of Montana Avian Science Center – southwestern Montana.• Riparian, aspen, and mixed-conifer bird counts for Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory – south central Wyoming.• Loggerhead Shrike habitat assessment and breeding survey for Anderson and Associates, Inc. – Blacksburg, VA.• Avian and small burrowing mammal surveys and bird and bat mortality surveys at the Ponnequin Wind Energy Project in Colorado for Curry and Kerlinger, LLC under a consulting contract with the Public Service Company of Colorado (now Xcel Energy).
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Store ManagerWild Bird Centers Of America Aug 2005 - Dec 2005Asheville, North Carolina Area• While attending school for Teacher Certification, I managed day-to-day operations including: sales of low-, mid-, and high-end optics, bird feeders, bird seed, books, gifts,and cash register and credit card operations, reconciliation and deposits; ordering; and stocking.• Supervised and trained one part-time store employee.• Educated customers about backyard habitat, bird feeding, squirrel problems and purchasing and maintaining optics. -
Store ManagerFor The Birds Nature Store Aug 2004 - Jun 2005Blacksburg, Virginia Area• Managed day-to-day operations including: in-store, web, and phone sales of low-, mid-, and high-end optics, bird feeders, seed, books, gifts,and cash register and credit card operations, reconciliation and deposits; ordering; and stocking.• Supervised and trained two part-time store employees.• Educated customers about backyard habitat, bird feeding, squirrel problems and purchasing and maintaining optics.
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Contract Biologist - Grenada Dove CensusDry Forest Biodiversity Conservation Project - Government Of Grenada Aug 2003 - Jan 2004St Georges, Grenada, West Indies• Planned, organized and conducted spot-mapping surveys for endangered, endemic Grenada Doves islandwide.• Trained and supervised two field assistants in conducting audio playback surveys for Grenada Doves.• Wrote reports, created maps, and presented to Grenada Forestry and National Parks and World Bank personnel.
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Biological Science TechnicianU.S. Geological Survey (Usgs) - Biological Resource Division May 2000 - Aug 2003Fort Collins, Colorado Area• Trained and supervised field crew for “Birds and Burns” research on prescribed fires’ effects on cavity-nesting birds.• Trained and supervised five field crews on three distinct projects in three states involving the effects of fire on bird communities in six wildfires from 2000, in riparian areas of the Los Alamos National Lab, and in prescribed fires in CO.• Established plots at random points and conducted multi-year avian and vegetation surveys, and cavity nest searches, including nest success monitoring on US Forest Service lands in CO.• Coordinated a Ferruginous Hawk/Black-tailed Prairie Dog project involving over thirty volunteers in eastern Colorado.• Conducted winter raptor and prairie dog surveys in northeastern New Mexico and eastern Colorado.• Conducted nest searches and monitored reproductive success of Olive-sided Flycatchers in prescribed burns and stand-replacement burns in the Pike National Forest in Colorado.• Performed database quality control and compiled a field manual for bird count and vegetation survey methodology. -
Research AssistantBureau Of Reclamation May 1999 - Aug 1999Greater Denver Area• Conducted avian transect surveys for endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatchers using audio playbacks in established survey protocols in dense desert riparian vegetation and by kayak on the Havasu NWR.• Mist-netted using Southwestern Willow Flycatcher playback lures.• Conducted multi-species nest searches to quantify levels of Brown-headed Cowbird brood parasitism.• Trapped and euthanized Brown-headed Cowbirds at Bill Williams National Wildlife Refuge. -
Resource SpecialistCity Of Boulder Open Space And Mountain Parks May 1996 - Dec 1998Boulder, Colorado Area• Utilized GIS technology for forest stand delineations and the digitization of field data in ArcView, Arc/Info, and AutoCAD. Created wildlife transect and forest inventory maps using ArcView GIS.• Authored two year-end reports and a reference document on forest insects and diseases.• Reviewed draft management plans and research proposals to City of Boulder Open Space.• Researched inventory methodology, co-authored the Forest Inventory Handbook, and maintained inventory database.• Supervised and trained employee and volunteer field crews in the completion of a two-year forest inventory.• Utilized forest mensuration tools and vegetation inventory and monitoring methodologies.• Utilized GPS receivers to map forest inventory plots and wildlife transect locations.• Conducted avian transect surveys using point count methodology.• Censused small mammal populations using mark and recapture trapping techniques.• Trapped and relocated Black-tailed Prairie Dogs.• Conducted wildlife monitoring including raptor foraging at prairie dog towns, nest success of cliff-nesting Peregrine and Prairie Falcons, nest success at a large heron rookery, goose counts, deer counts, and bat monitoring.• Coordinated multi-agency volunteer bat monitoring project. -
Interpretive NaturalistUs Forest Service - Chugach Nat'L Forest May 1994 - Aug 1994Girdwood, Alaska Area• Developed and presented programs on moose, marine mammals, migratory birds, and glaciers.• Led interpretive nature hikes on plant succession, glacial effects, and wildlife. Conducted “Iceworm Safaris.”• Narrated hour-long natural history cruises on Portage Lake and extended trips in Prince William Sound.• Taught special programs to Girdwood Science Camp students on general, plant, and aquatic ecology.• Created poster displays for resident and migratory bird education.• Provided information and outreach at the visitor center desk.
Lawrence "Chip" Clouse Jr. Skills
Lawrence "Chip" Clouse Jr. Education Details
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Natural Resources Stewardship/Conservation Biology -
Nc Teach - Post-Bachelor Teacher Certification -
Biology - Naturalist Concentration
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Lawrence "Chip" Clouse Jr.'s current role is Tour Guide; ProStaff; former Manufacturer's Rep; Avian Ecologist; Backyard Habitat Specialist; Environmental Educator.
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Lawrence "Chip" Clouse Jr. attended Colorado State University, Western Carolina University, Appalachian State University.
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Lawrence "Chip" Clouse Jr.'s colleagues are Maria Fahey, Mark Fernandes, Garin Baksa, Rohima Begum, Arslan Shamrez, Rob Laughton.
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