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Ellen is the Director of Environmental Regulatory and Restoration for RES in California. She brings more than 30 years of conservation experience, including 17 years in progressive California regulatory roles focused on creative solutions to complex issues.

Before joining RES, Ellen spent 11 years at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), where she worked on Section 7 consultations and regional Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) projects. She then moved to the Regional Office as Division Chief of Ecological Services and Section 7 Coordinator for the California-Nevada region. Most recently, she spent seven years as branch chief of the Sacramento River Basin Branch at NOAA Fisheries, supervising programs including mitigation banking, hatcheries, the statewide Caltrans program, Section 4(d) and research permitting, and recovery projects.

Ellen’s expertise spans a wide range of endangered species permitting, strategic visioning, and long-term, multi-stakeholder projects focused on sustainable resource management and large-scale conservation. She holds a Master of Science in Molecular Biology from Texas Tech University and a Bachelor of Science with a concentration in animal behavior from the University of New Mexico.

Ellen works closely with clients and RES’s interdisciplinary teams to deliver achievable regulatory permits for environmental restoration projects.