Biological Services

Understanding a site's natural environment and a project's regulatory requirements is central in determining a project's feasibility or possible alternatives. Through impact avoidance and mitigation planning, we can help you design projects to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Protection Act, best achieving land-use objectives.

 

Services include:

• biological resource assessments

• state and federal protocol-level special-status plant and plant community surveys

• invasive plant management planning and monitoring

• watercourse classification

• identification of riparian vegetation

• wetland delineations that meet requirements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Technical Report (Y-87-1) and the California Coastal Act guidelines

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping