Leaps.ms
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LEAPS is an environmental consulting service committed to quality nature consulting and research. Owned and operated by Robert and Andrea English since 1991, LEAPS conducts research in parks and natural areas to provide information that will contribute to natural area interpretation and management. By sharing our research, photographs, recordings and enthusiasm in our programs and projects, we hope to increase awareness of our state's diverse natural heritage and instill the desire to protect this legacy for future generations.
LEAPS has photographed and recorded the 21 species of frogs and toads in Tennessee. In 1996, this information was used by LEAPS to conduct the training workshops for the Tennessee Amphibian Monitoring Program. In thirteen workshops, over 300 people across the state were taught to identify Tennessee's frogs and toads by sight and sound and to use this information to monitor anuran breeding populations in their areas. LEAPS conducted an amphibian and reptile inventory for the Warner Parks in Nashville in 1997 and for the Owls Hill Nature Center in Brentwood, Tennessee in 2000. A mammal inventory for Radnor Lake State Natural Area was also completed in 2000 and we are currently conducting a tree inventory for the Owl’s Hill Nature Center. A spring and summer bird survey for the Horizon Center property in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was completed in 2002 and 2003 for Fish & Wildlife Associates and the Department of Energy. LEAPS conducted a GIS workshop for the Clinch River Environmental Studies Organization (CRESO) in 2002, and took the aerial photographs for that project. LEAPS has published many of its frog and toad geographical distribution records in the Herpetological Review Quarterly News-Journal. Current projects also include coordination of the Exotic Invasive Plant Inventory for Beaman Park in Davidson County, interpretation of the Springfield, Tennessee YMCA Wetland and aerial photography and GIS baseline projects for the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation and the Land Trust for Tennessee. A handbook and CD of Tennessee’s Frogs and Toads is also in progress. In 2003, LEAPS received the Tennessee Environmental Education Association's award for “Environmental Educators of the Year”
Andrea English has a bachelor's degree in wildlife and fisheries science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a master's degree in biology from Austin Peay State University. She has been an interpretive naturalist for nineteen years at such places as the Woodlands Nature Center at TVA's Land Between the Lakes, Dunbar Cave State Natural Area and the Warner Parks Nature Center. In 2003, she worked as the Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Environmental Education at Middle Tennessee State University. She is currently working as a Wildlife Diversity Coordinator for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and will be researching and writing management plans for “species of concern” in Tennessee. She is also working on a handbook and CD of Tennessee’s Frogs and Toads.
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