Wildlife species, while often elusive, can be key players in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems as top predators within the food web, indicators of ecosystem health within the forest or riparian corridor, or sensitive species with unique habitat requirements. We routinely conduct:

Wildlife Studies

• Monitoring and assessing wildlife distribution, habitat use, and population dynamics
• Habitat assessments
• Limiting factor analyses
• Wildlife movement corridor analyses
• Watershed analyses
• Database searches, synthesis, and mapping of results
• Species summaries

Sensitive-Species Surveys (for more specifics on sensitive species we have worked with, click here)

• Reptiles and amphibians: permitted to handle California red-legged frog, giant garter snake, San Francisco garter snake, and Alameda whipsnake
• Birds
• Mammals
• Invertebrates

Regulatory Compliance

• CEQA: Initial Studies (IS), Environmental Impact Reports (EIR)
• NEPA: Environmental Assessments (EA), Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)
• ESA: Section 7–Biological Assessments (BA), Section 10–Habitat Conservation Plans (HCP)

Construction Compliance (for more specifics on construction monitoring experience, click here)

• Pre-construction Surveys
• Environmental awareness training
• Construction monitoring
   

Stillwater Sciences uses an ecosystem approach to wildlife management to evaluate the underlying causes and mechanisms for the distribution of wildlife within a project area, usually beginning with a thorough understanding of the species' habitat needs through various life stages. We work with amphibians, reptiles, birds, bats, and large mammals, as well as benthic macroinvertebrates and mollusks. Their habitat needs can be evaluated in light of other biological and management issues, such as limited resource availability or climate change, to find opportunities where multiple species and resources can benefit. We use new and creative ways to monitor and assess wildlife populations in the field, develop restoration programs and designs to help restore these populations, and develop mitigation measures for environmental compliance required under the federal and state Endangered Species Acts, NEPA, or CEQA.

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Our wildlife crews are experienced handlers of many special-status mammal, reptile, amphibian, and bird species, including peregrine falcons, pictured here.