Mr.Gumbert is the president and founder of Copperhead Environmental Consulting, Inc. He is an accomplished naturalist and focused project coordinator. He is experienced in NEPA documentation and designing and implementing large-scale environmental assessments for projects involving complex environmental regulations, including protected species surveys, environmental assessment, and biological evaluation studies. In addition to managing major projects he has helped bridge the gap between the private sector and the regulatory agencies. His expertise includes the identification of bats, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and plants. Since his thesis work Mr. Gumbert has been interested in the ecology of bats and has extensive experience with all of the techniques used for the study of bats, including radio telemetry, mist netting, harp trapping, light tagging, and the use of bat detector equipment (AnaBat II) for recording and identifying ultrasonic bat calls. He has a strong background in the identification of trees used by bats and has completed summer netting surveys throughout the eastern United States since 1993.
Since 1995, Mr. Gumbert has been involved with numerous projects to survey, collect, and transport all life stages of reptiles and amphibians. He has performed habitat assessments in conjunction with biotic surveys to document seasonal habitat use of amphibians and reptiles. In addition to speaking to special interest groups, on behalf of these creatures, he was the Kentucky coordinator for the North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) from 1997-2000. Email Mark
Mark descends on rope to a bat roost
Specimen from Fish Survey at Park Lake
driving em' forward
Copperhead Environmental Consulting, Inc. 11641 Richmond Road, PO Box 73, Paint Lick, Kentucky 40461 Phone: 859-925-9012 Fax: 859-925-9816
