LEAPS is an environmental consulting service committed to quality nature consulting and research. LEAPS conducts research in parks and natural areas to provide information that will contribute to natural area interpretation and management. 

LEAPS has photographed and recorded the 21 species of frogs and toads in Tennessee. In 1996, this information was used by LEAPS to conduct the training workshops for the Tennessee Amphibian Monitoring Program. In thirteen workshops, over 300 people across the state were taught to identify Tennessee's frogs and toads by sight and sound and to use this information to monitor anuran breeding populations in their areas. LEAPS conducted an amphibian and reptile inventory for the Warner Parks in Nashville in 1997 and for the Owls Hill Nature Center in Brentwood, Tennessee in 2000. A mammal inventory for Radnor Lake State Natural Area was also completed in 2000 and we are currently conducting a tree inventory for the Owl’s Hill Nature Center.  A spring and summer bird survey for the Horizon Center property in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was completed in 2002 and 2003 for Fish & Wildlife Associates and the Department of Energy.  LEAPS conducted a GIS workshop for the Clinch River Environmental Studies Organization (CRESO) in 2002, and took the aerial photographs for that project.  LEAPS has published many of its frog and toad geographical distribution records in the Herpetological Review Quarterly News-Journal. Current projects also include coordination of the Exotic Invasive Plant Inventory for Beaman Park in Davidson County, interpretation of the Springfield, Tennessee YMCA Wetland and aerial photography and GIS baseline projects for the Tennessee Parks and Greenways Foundation and the Land Trust for Tennessee.  A handbook and CD of Tennessee’s Frogs and Toads is also in progress.  In 2003, LEAPS received the Tennessee Environmental Education Association's award for “Environmental Educators of the Year”

Robert English has a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Aside from the diverse projects already listed above, his interests have included amateur astronomy for thirty-six years and birding for twenty-one years. His interest in night birds has yielded sightings of all nineteen species of North American owls, thirteen species of Central and South American owls and four species of Australian owls. He flew high performance sailplanes for ten years and received his diamond badge in 1983. He now owns a 1949 Piper Clipper, which he uses for projects involving aerial photography.  Many of his bird photographs are on file in the VIREO collection at The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and his photographs of Australian Owlet-Nightjars and Puerto Rican Screech Owls have been included in books and CD ROM’s.  An example of his owl photography can be seen in the National Audubon Society books, The Bird Garden and The Audubon Backyard Birdwatcher.  His astrophotography has appeared in Astronomy magazine, and eight of his frog and toad images are included in the recently published, The Frogs and Toads of North America, by Lang Elliott.