Hardshell Labs

Birds damage billions of dollars of resources every year in the United States. They pester dairy and waste management facilities, create fires around utility distribution lines and equipment, prey on desired and threatened species, damage agricultural crops, strike aircraft, create roost problems, and carry and transmit disease. Hardshell Labs, Inc. (HSL) produces inventions and innovations that provide resource protection services from birds. The company's innovative technology creates transformative avian hazing and damage protection practices that will dramatically reduce critical asset losses in typically remote, conservation habitats, power distribution, waste management, and agricultural settings.In 2022 the company was awarded a Phase I, Small Business Innovation Research Grant by the National Science Foundation, as well as the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize for "Promoting Nonlethal Human-Wildlife Conflict Management: Creating a No-Fly Zone for Birds" by Tim Shields and the Hardshell Labs team featuring Dr. Bill Boarman, and Ryan Boarman.Hardshell Labs has developed field-tested, humane solutions to control bird damage to valued assets. The company has extensive field experience managing and preventing predation by ravens or crows of endangered species, such as the Desert Tortoise and Sage Grouse, and is exploring applications of its proven protection services in the areas of wildfire mitigation, landfills, waste management, dairy operations, ecological habitat protection; as well as shielding other high-value agricultural crops. Hardshell Labs specializes in understanding and developing novel processes and technologies for commercial, conservation, and agricultural applications.