Guarding Against
Unrecognized Liabilities
Can You Imagine Your Range Facing a Multi-Million Dollar Environmental Cleanup?
Unfortunately, some ranges have had to deal with such a challenge, and more are vulnerable. How would your range respond if faced with even a multi-thousand dollar environmental challenge? Environmental Range Protection assists ranges nationwide with design, operation, and maintenance consistent with environmental laws and regulations, sound science and engineering, and the practical realities of day-to-day range activities.
Services
Richard K. “Dick” Peddicord, Ph.D. has been providing environmental support to the shooting sports since 1986 when he began work for Remington Arms Company at Lordship Gun Club in Stratford, Connecticut. Since then, he has become one of the most broadly experienced leaders in environmental evaluation and management at outdoor shooting ranges.
Assessment and Management
Dr. Peddicord provides his clients with detailed technical knowledge of the potential impacts of lead, other shooting-associated metals, and clay target components on soil, water quality, aquatic organisms, wildlife, birds, and human health.
Environmental Stewardship
An Environmental Stewardship Plan is a written guide for planning, implementing, monitoring, and documenting environmental management and improvements at your shooting range consistent with EPA guidance, that has been adopted by most States.
Technical Support of Counsel
Dr. Peddicord has provided technical support to counsel in cases resulting in decisions key to environmental assessment and management of outdoor shooting ranges consistent with major Federal laws and their state counterparts.
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About Dr. Peddicord
Dr. Peddicord has broad experience in assessment and management of environmental risks for a variety of clients, with particular emphasis on all aspects of environmental issues faced by outdoor recreational and law enforcement shooting ranges. His technical activities include conduct of projects, scientific consultation, assessment of potential environmental impacts, development of practical environmental management approaches, siting and designing ranges to minimize potential impacts, ecological risk assessment, regulatory review and negotiation, expert testimony, and regulatory and public interaction.
Dr. Peddicord received a B.S. degree in biology in 1968 from Morehead State University, and a Ph.D. in Marine Science in 1973 from the University of Virginia through the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.