Carl Thelander
President/CEO
Senior Ecologist
Mr. Thelander has over 35 years of experience with natural resource consulting on interdisciplinary projects. His technical specialties include wildlife ecology, natural resources management, endangered species conservation, and ornithology. He is recognized as an expert on wildlife interactions with energy related facilities, including large-scale wind/solar/hydroelectric energy developments, transmission and distribution lines, pipelines, and other large infrastructure.
Priscilla Watson-Wynn
Biological Technician
Priscila Watson-Wynn is a graduate of California State University- East Bay, Hayward, CA with a Bachelor of Science: Biological Sciences: Ecology and Conservation. She has Performed California Spotted Owl and Northern Goshawk nest and reproductive success surveys in various project areas. She has assisted in outdoor education programs working with kids to inspire appropriate care of our forest and natural resources. She has created and led interpretive programming for all ages of the public covering the natural and cultural resources.
Priscila Watson-Wynn is a graduate of California State University- East Bay, Hayward, CA with a Bachelor of Science: Biological Sciences: Ecology and Conservation. She has Performed California Spotted Owl and Northern Goshawk nest and reproductive success surveys in various project areas. She has assisted in outdoor education programs working with kids to inspire appropriate care of our forest and natural resources. She has created and led interpretive programming for all ages of the public covering the natural and cultural resources.
Travis Byler
Staff Biologist
Mr. Byler is a Wildlife Biologist residing in Bakersfield, CA, who has several years experience working with Endangered & Special Status Species in California and Nevada. This includes radio tracking, translocating, health assessment (under assistance), surveying and monitoring for Desert Tortoise. His experience extends into work with Mojave Ground Squirrel, Burrowing Owl, Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard, Nesting birds, Woodpeckers and other species in the Central Valley, Sierras, Mojave Desert and Southern Nevada.
Seth Sutherland
GeoSpatial Applications Director
GIS Specialist
Mr. Sutherland has extensive knowledge and experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including ESRI’s ArcGIS suites and extensions, as well as mobile data collection technologies and reporting applications. He is a GIS program leader and senior consultant responsible for ensuring timely, organized, predictable delivery of multiple, overlapping projects. He is expert at deriving spatial information from widely varied resource material.
Matt Schaap
Senior Biologist
Mr. Schaap has over 13 years of professional consulting experience as a natural resource planner and a field biologist. HIs skills include ecological surveys, GIS mapping, soil sampling, water quality monitoring, and wildlife surveys. Through his work, he has made connections with local, state, and federal agencies. Additionally, Mr. Schaap has conducted many species focused biological studies on a wide array of California flora and fauna using his state scientific collecting permit and his federal recovery permit.
Chance Ronemus
GIS Intern/Technician
Chance has been an excellent intern to the GIS department assisting in large scale data processing tasks, tabular data adjudication, and data reporting. He has proven to be a quick study and skilled with Microsoft Access databases and Python scripting tasks for ArcGIS. He has managed his workload very efficiently while studying at Montana State University in the city of Bozeman. He will be graduating in 2019 with a degree in Geology with a minor in Geographic Information Systems.
Roxanne Clarke
Environmental Analyst
Ms. Clark has a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. She is currently an Environmental Technician conducting surveys and maintaining detailed field observations to determine species status. She is also assisting with preparations in overall annual project biological monitoring summary reports. Furthermore, Ms. Clark is managing staff coordination for multi-disciplinary biological field surveys throughout southern California.
Stephen Jones
Senior Botanist
Wetland Specialist
Stephen Jones has over 30 years of experience as a botanist, primarily conducting and managing floristic surveys Southern California. Mr. Jones has conducted rare plant surveys in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, and the southeast coastal plain of the U.S. In California he has conducted rare plant surveys of several species. Mr. Jones is a Clean Water Act permitting specialist and a water quality specialist, having conducted over 1000 jurisdictional delineations.
Jaryd Block
GeoSpatial Applications Specialist
GIS Specialist
Mr. Block is a GIS program specialist supporting multiple, overlapping projects. His work experience includes environmental resource mapping, jurisdictional delineations and impact quantification, alliance level vegetation mapping, mobile solutions using ArcGIS Online, geodatabase organization and management, environmental compliance monitoring, technical report writing, riparian habitat restoration, Python tool scripting, and real-time post processing of biological field data.
Andrew Sandahl
Staff Biologist
Katie Grube
Staff Biologist
Elizabeth Thelander
Word Processing/Accounting
Steven Neumann
Biological Technician
R. Chance Davis
Biological Technician
Chance Davis has experience with assessment of habitat, utilization, monitoring, and management as well as experience using radio telemetry to locate mule deer in rugged terrain, and catching fawn mule deer to collect data and attaching radio collars on Monroe mountain. He has worked alongside biologists implementing habitat restoration and improvement projects on state owned land and with cooperative federal agencies to improve habitat on federal lands including working with the UDWR employees in a classroom setting,
Leison Bernstein
Staff Biologist
Mr. Bernstein is a Staff Biologist with experience conducting field surveys and construction monitoring activities involving endangered, threatened, and sensitive animal species. He is an active team member working with a variety of disciplines. He has diverse experience ranging from working with motion detector cameras performing habitat quality assessments, to water quality and storm water sampling for lab analysis and annual reporting.
Thomas Jackson
Staff Biologist
Anita Thompson
Office Manager
Mike Yates
Biologist/Project Manager
Mr. Yates has conducted studies in various U.S. states, Canada, Greenland, and Russia. Species involved have included the peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, golden eagle, ferruginous hawk, Swainson’s hawk, and various other hawk and falcon species, greater sage-grouse, common loon, American white pelican, brown pelican, white-faced ibis, and desert bighorn sheep. He has served as Principal Investigator or Co-investigator in many of these studies, and authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed publications.
Rolando Castro
Staff Biologist
Marshall Paymard
Senior Biologist
Dan Pittenger
Senior Biologist