| Jerry Baker - Wildlife Biologist |
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Jerry Baker has been primarily involved with studies of potential impacts of wind power developments on wildlife. He joined WEST in 2006 and works out of our Walla Walla, Washington office. These tasks have included ground raptor nest surveys and monitoring, avian and raptor point counts, breeding bird surveys, Washington ground squirrel surveys and monitoring, rare plant surveys, big game ground surveys, sage grouse lek searches, and sensitive wildlife species surveys in native habitats. Additionally, he has performed carcass searching, carcass removal and searcher efficiency trials in support of actual turbine mortality studies. He has supervised field crews as part of both pre- and post construction environmental surveys for large wind facilities in the Pacific Northwest.
He is a longtime sportsman and remains an avid angler, especially enjoying time steelhead fishing with his children. He also enjoys bird watching in Mexico when visiting his wife's relatives, and is fluent in Spanish. He lives with his family in Athena, Oregon.
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