With an equally diverse and knowledgeable team in place, RES was named in 2019 as the lead environmental restoration contractor for the proposed Klamath River dam removal project. A few weeks later, RES became operating manager for 15 conservation and mitigation banks across California.

In California, RES has assembled a team of biologists, regulatory specialists, GIS analysts, and land conservation specialists with deep experience in Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley, Southern California, and Inland Desert regions.

The RES California team is experienced in all aspects of mitigation banking and species habitat preservation, and also draws from a deep bench of stream and river restoration expertise across the country for larger projects such as the mitigation plan for restoring the Klamath River, post-dam removal. Our California ecologists and biologists have decades of expertise in fisheries, wetland delineation, and working to meet the requirements of the numerous regulatory agencies in the state.

Similarly, our team has extensive experience developing offsets for many sensitive species including:

• California red-legged frog
• California tiger salamander
• California coastal gnatcatcher
• Burrowing owl
• Giant garter snake
• Vernal pool crustaceans
• Desert tortoise
• Delta smelt
• Salt marsh harvest mouse
• Swainson’s hawk
• San Joaquin kit fox
• Least bell’s vireo

RES’ California team also provides proactive project impact analyses, permitting advisory services, and compliance monitoring to help clients streamline their permitting timelines, reduce their entitlement costs, and limit long-term liabilities associated with permit conditions.