Acoustic monitoring · land · decisions

Know where key species are calling — and how to manage for them

Continuous listening that turns a property’s soundscape into practical answers: where birds are, what’s changing, and what to do next.

Track record · past impact through education & outreach

~18,977

acres improved

~1,707

people influenced

~179,987

acres planned differently

31

speaker series sessions

Current focus

Acoustic monitoring that answers species questions

Continuous listening that digitizes the sound of a property — then translates calling into actionable insights: where activity concentrates, what’s changing, and what to do next for bobwhite, turkey, grouse, and the wider bird community.

How insights become action

Education that turns listening into action

Habitat workshops and speaker series help people act on what acoustics and research show — and check whether management is working. Past track record, not the primary offer.

Workshop group walking a field path
Field workshop · boots on the ground
Instructor teaching in a wooded stand
Forest habitat teaching
Participants gathered in a grassy field during a workshop
Open-field learning
Large indoor workshop audience facing the stage
Speaker series
Lecture hall filled with workshop attendees
Packed rooms, practical topics
Night fieldwork with headlamps and clipboard
Night field work
Attentive audience at round tables during a workshop
Landowners & managers learning together
Field instruction in early successional habitat

Habitat · track record

Early successional structure, quail, grassland & young forest — practices informed by what listening and research show on the ground.

Outdoor workshop participants on a working property

Workshops · how data informs action

Feet-on-the-ground formats and speaker series that help people act on acoustic and research insight — and see whether habitat work is paying off.

From participants

What people say

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“Luke has been crucial to helping me with both of my farms — to build better habitat. The programs are full of details and to the point… They work!”

Roby Malandrucco · Retired landowner

“The wildlife management sessions… about quail management are wonderfully helpful. I came away with a bunch of new ideas about how to better bring back quail to our farm on the Eastern Shore.”

David Rockland

“Luke has done a phenomenal job of bringing land managers of all stripes together to share words of wisdom. I am very grateful for the prescribed fire, grassland bird habitat, and other great knowledge sharing.”

Lindsay Hollister · Horticulturalist & de facto land manager

Credibility

Built on Extension excellence

  • Ph.D. · UC Berkeley
  • Extension Specialist · UC Berkeley + UMD (through 2026)
  • Tenure → entrepreneurship · Land & Wildlife
  • ~3 years proving acoustics on a ~1,000-acre farm partnership

Read my story · more quotes on About · peer-reviewed & Extension writing on Publications.

Contact

Let’s talk acoustics & land

Curious whether acoustic monitoring fits your property — or how listening can inform habitat decisions.

luke@landwildlife.com