Company Profile

Expertise

BRC's biologists excel in wildlife and botanical research/consulting.  This includes habitat assessments, wildlife-habitat relationship analyses, ornithology, herpetology, mammalogy, listed and special-status species inventories, biological assessments, and state and federal Endangered Species Act consultation processes, HCPs and MS-HCPs, resource planning and management, watershed planning, habitat restoration and mitigation, and computer-aided geographic information management (GIS/GPS).

BRC is equipped to carry out field studies under a wide range of environmental conditions.  Our biologists are experienced with conducting major field studies from the Alaskan arctic to the tropics.  We own and operate state-of-the art Trimble GPS hardware integrated with ARC-View GIS software to ensure accuracy and speed in mapping and documenting our findings.  This capability is done through our Spatial Graphics Division, under the direction of Seth Sutherland.

With our graphics and desktop publishing equipment we consistently produce publication-quality reports, maps, scientific illustrations, and layouts for reports or public presentations.

The BRC team possesses extensive federal, state, and regional expertise with endangered species permitting, habitat conservation planning, and other multi-species planning approaches to resource conservation. 

BRC biologists have been, or currently are, members of recovery teams for endangered species.  They have developed standards and guidelines used for endangered species permitting and management, and are respected by their peers as leaders in education and conservation programs involving ecological processes, endangered species management, and related topics. 

BRC biologists have produced ecological assessments, mitigation plans, construction monitoring plans, biological resources management plans, long-range resource management plans, research reports, scientific journal articles, and books.

Our botanical capabilities include rare plant surveys, general vegetation surveys, floristic analyses, revegetation and restoration plans, and habitat mapping.  BRC’s wetland resource capabilities include jurisdictional boundary delineation, wetland functional evaluations, wetland creation and/or enhancement; and groundwater monitoring.