Alabama NewsCenter — Alabama Power’s Baker selected Wildlife Biologist of the Year

By Chuck Chandler
Alabama NewsCenter

Southern clubshell mussels and flattened musk turtles, trispot darters and rainbow trout fishes, tulotoma snails and wildfowl that sing: These are a few of Jeff Baker’s favorite things.

“I’m not sure that any day is typical and that’s one of the things that is most gratifying about the work I get to do,” said Baker, a biologist for Alabama Power Environmental Affairs. “Although some things sometimes become routine, you always seem to get to experience something new.”

Whether he’s working to improve the status of threatened gopher tortoises in longleaf pine forests or capturing and releasing endangered Black Warrior waterdogs in remote streams, Baker’s job entails a daily effort to fulfill the dreams he had when earning a bachelor’s degree in biology at UAB and a master’s in fisheries at Auburn University. The Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society (ACTWS) recently named him Wildlife Biologist of the Year.

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