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<br />(303) 442- 6144
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<br />RICHARD W. THOMPSON
<br />February, 1994
<br />CERTIFIED WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST
<br />PRESIDENT
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<br />B.S., Wildlife Research, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1978
<br />M.S., Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1981
<br />Member: Bat Conservation International
<br />Boulder County Nature Association
<br />' Colorado Wildlife Society
<br />International Society of Cryptozoology
<br />The Nature Conservancy
<br />Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Council
<br />' Phi Beta Kappa
<br />The Wildlife Society
<br />' Mr. Thompson has a strong background in wildlife ecology with related experience
<br />in statistics, reclamation, and plant ecology. As principal investigator/ task
<br />leader he has provided expert testimony and conducted original wildlife research,
<br />baseline and monitoring studies, wildlife impact assessments, biological
<br />' inventories, threatened and endangered species surveys, wetlands creation, and
<br />reclamation and siting projects in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, California,
<br />Montana, Utah, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. These investigations were
<br />associated with ski area, residential, metal mine, private and municipal, coal,
<br />' synfuels, oil shale, oil and gas, hard rock, transmission line and urban
<br />developments. Methodologies employed have included line and strip transacts for
<br />songbirds, mist-netting and banding birds and bats, lek counts of grouse, ground
<br />and aerial radiotelemetry surveys, small mammal trapping, habitat mapping, pellet
<br />' transects, nocturnal owl and black-footed ferret surveys, specific surveys for
<br />other threatened, endangered, and candidate species, tracking and hair snag
<br />surveys, fish electroshocking, benthic macroinvertebrate and periphyton sampling,
<br />and aerial surveys for waterfowl, sage grouse, raptors, feral horses, black and
<br />' grizzly bears, pronghorn, elk, mule and white-tailed deer, moose, caribou,
<br />mountain goats, bighorn sheep, and marine mammals. Studies conducted by Mr.
<br />Thompson have included taxa in every vertebrate class, in habitats ranging from
<br />the low desert to the alpine and arctic tundra.
<br />' Mr. Thompson has authored and coauthored 17 peer-reviewed papers on such topics
<br />as lynx tracking, mountain goat sodium dynamics, geographic variation in the
<br />lambing season of bighorn sheep, coal mine reclamation to enhance fish and
<br />' wildlife, breeding densities of grasshopper sparrows in Colorado, and the
<br />distribution of butterflies and moths in Colorado and Wyoming. He has also
<br />prepared several hundred technical reports and wildlife sections of Biological
<br />Assessments (8AS), Biological Evaluations (BEs), Environmental Assessments (EAs),
<br />' Environmental Impact Statements (EISS), and 404 and County Special Use Permits.
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