Lawrence "Chip" Clouse Jr. Email & Phone Number

Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

The 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.

Arvada, Colorado, United States

I 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.

Huntersville, NC

I 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.

Portland, Oregon Area

I 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.

Greater Denver Area

I 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.

Greater Denver Area

My 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.

Colorado 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

• 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.

Asheville, 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.
• Supervised and trained one part-time store employee.
• Educated customers about backyard habitat, bird feeding, squirrel problems and purchasing and maintaining optics.

Blacksburg, 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.
• Supervised and trained two part-time store employees.
• Educated customers about backyard habitat, bird feeding, squirrel problems and purchasing and maintaining optics.

St 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.

Fort 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.
• 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.

Greater 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.

Boulder, 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.

Girdwood, 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.

Mnrs, Natural Resources Stewardship/Conservation Biology

Activities and Societies: Society of American Foresters - 1999/2000 Society for Conservation Biology - 1999/2002 The Wildlife Society.

Nc Teach - Post-Bachelor Teacher Certification

completed all but Student Teaching

Bachelor Of Science, Biology - Naturalist Concentration

Activities and Societies: Highland Biology Club - Co-president in 1991/1992 Ultimate Club Team - Captain 1988/1992