Jamey has been working for WEST since 1995 and is primarily involved with tasks in conjunction with wind power developments. These tasks have included aerial and ground raptor nest surveys and monitoring, avian and raptor point counts, mountain plover surveys and nest monitoring, lagomorph and prairie dog surveys, and sage grouse, lesser and greater prairie chicken lek surveying and monitoring. He has also performed and managed carcass searching, removal and searcher efficiency trials in support of actual turbine mortality studies.
Prior to starting at WEST, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in animal science from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo and was then on the staff at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was a raptor breeding and raptor food production specialist as part of the Peregrine Falcon reintroduction program for the west coast. He was also involved with the release of young as well as on-going surveys of the wild falcon population as it continued to increase.
He resides in Laramie, Wyoming, and in his spare time enjoys fishing, hunting, and birding, along with performing improvements on his property.
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