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Natural Resources
Our biologists, botanists and other environmental science specialists have successfully guided our clients through natural resources planning challenges for over 30 years.
Harris Environmental Group’s biological staff specializes in Endangered Species Act compliance as well as technical services specific to threatened and endangered flora and fauna including research, clearance surveys and permitting. Our staff biologists hold permits for special status species commonly encountered in project areas throughout the west from desert obligates to coastal, marine and boreal species.
Featured Services
- Archival Research (Class I)
- Threatened and Endangered Species Surveys
- Native Plant Surveys
- Section 404 Permitting (Jurisdictional Delineations)
- Noxious Weed Surveys
- Special Status Species Monitoring
- Riparian Area Mapping
- Habitat Assessments
- Wildlife Conservation
- Endangered Species Act (ESA) Compliance
- Endangered Species Management Plans (ESMP)
- Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) Compliance
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)
- Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) Compliance
- Natural Resources Inventories, Surveys and Biological Assessments
- Watershed Management
- Coastal and Marine Estuary Management
- Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan (INRMP) Compliance
- Forage Fish Surveying: Surf Smelt, Pacific Sand Lance
- Extraction and Relocation of native fish species protected by ESA and of tribal importance: Chinook, Coho, Chum, Pink, and Kokanee Salmon; Bull Trout; Steelhead; Coastal Cutthroat Trout; Pacific Lamprey; Olympic Mudminnow; Sculpin
- Herpetofauna Surveys and Relocation
- Monitoring for ESA and MMPA species on Marine Construction Projects: Marbled Murrelet; marine mammals including ESA species Southern Resident Killer Whale, Humpback Whale, Fin Whale
- Breeding Bird/Nesting Bird Surveys: Forest surveys for presence/absence of Marbled Murrelet; Bald Eagle nest surveys; NEPA breeding bird surveys