Nomad’s experience and expertise comprise wildlife biology, botany, wetlands, restoration ecology, arboriculture, and Geographic Information Systems.
We provide a full suite of natural resource related surveys, documents, and regulatory assistance to comply with all applicable state and federal environmental regulations including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Federal and State Endangered Species Acts, and the Clean Water Act, among others. Nomad provides biological resources expertise from the beginning phases of project design, helps clients minimize impacts to biological resources informed by survey results and reporting, assists clients with obtaining permits from relevant regulatory agencies, provides biological monitoring throughout project construction, completes restoration design and implementation after project construction, and conducts long term monitoring to comply with permit conditions
We provide clients with...
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Biological resources expertise
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Impact analysis
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Baseline environmental studies
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Strategies to mitigate the impacts to biological resources
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Assistance with obtaining permits from regulatory agencies
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Comprehensive biological monitoring
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Complete restoration design and implementation after project construction
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Long term monitoring to comply with permit conditions
Nomad can fulfill all aspects of your scope of services under Biological Resources, Agricultural Resources, Regulatory Permitting, Environmental Construction Monitoring, and Resotoration.
Our professional services include:
- Arborist Evaluations
- Avian Point Counts
- Bat Acoustical Monitoring
- Biological Assessments
- Camera Trapping
- CEQA/NEPA Services
- Compliance Monitoring
- Conceptual Restoration Design
- Dipnet and Seine Surveys for Larval Amphibians
- Drone Services
- Field Botany (Floristic Studies)
- Fire Ecology
- Fuels Management Support
- Geographic Information System (GIS) Services
- Habitat Conservation Plan Support
- Invasive Species Mapping and Management Plans
- Long-term Monitoring of Mitigation and Restoration Project
- Monitoring Plans
- Natural Environment Studies
- Nesting Bird Surveys
- Permitted Wildlife Biologists (USFWS Section 10(a)(1)(A) and CDFW Memorandum of Understanding and Scientific Collecting Permit)
- Pre-construction Surveys, Worker Training, and Biomonitoring
- Regulatory Agency Permit Application Preparation and Agency Negotiation
- Protocol-level Wildlife Surveys
- Rare Plant Surveys and Monitoring
- Resource Management Plans
- Revegetation Plans
- Vegetation Mapping and Ecology
- Wetland Delineations
- Wildlife Inventories
Services offered by Nomad complement the goals of State and Federal agencies, non-profit groups, privately owned companies, and local municipalities.
Our services are well suited for the land management arena by enriching the knowledge of land and resource managers, park agencies, and non-governmental organizations in the facilitation of meaningful stewardship-driven natural resources management as well as sound project assistance through environmental documentation and permitting.