WETLANDS

 

• BEAVER CREEK ENVIRONMENTAL is proud to be a:

  • King County Preferred Wetland Consultant

  • Pierce County Preferred Wetland Consultant/Preferred fish & wildlife habitat assessment consultant

• GIS and GPS mapping services

• Wetland delineation and critical area studies

• Wetland mitigation quantification and plan design

• Mitigation monitoring plans and monitoring reports

• Wetland mitigation banking evaluation, design and permitting

• Low impact development (LID) design consultation

• Aerial photograph interpretation

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers field verification

  • ​All field staff trained in US Army Corps of Engineers – Wetland Delineation

• Public presentation: Local, State, Federal, Tribal, NGO, other

• State of Washington classification and reporting protocols

• And more! BCES can help with ANYTHING wetland related

Fisheries and Water

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• Application preparation and submittal for obtaining jurisdictional permits:

  1. individual or nation wide section 404 permits

  2. Individual or nation wide section 401 water quality certification

  3. CZMA consistency determination

• Pre and post-development hydrological analysis​

• Fisheries habitat assessment, restoration, creation and enhancement design

• Stream habitat inventory, impact assessment and mitigation design

• State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) checklist, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessment

• Environmental documentation (SEPA & NEPA)

• FEMA floodplain and letter of map revision assessment and impact qualifications

• Water quality sampling, analysis and monitoring 

• Shoreline Substantial Development permitting

• Corps of Engineers Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) reporting

• NOAA/NMFS – Floodplain Habitat Analysis reporting

• WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife forage fish surveys

WILDLIFE​

• Mazama Pocket Gopher Assessments 

  • BCES is certified by the US Fish & Wildlife Service in providing Mazama Pocket Gopher field screening services to local governments and building permit applicants within Thurston and Pierce Counties.

• Wildlife habitat assessment, restoration, creation and enhancement design

• Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance and permitting

• Habitat banking design and implementation

• Conservation easement assessment and monitoring

• Wildlife recreation (Hunting and viewing) program development

• Prairie restoration and enhancement

• Recent Contributions:

  • Mazama Pocket Gopher habitat assessment (Wa Dept of Fish and Wildlife)

  • Streaked horned lark ID and habitat assessment (Mcchord Airforce Base, Wa)

From North Cascades National Park

Forestry​/ Backyard Habitat 

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• Forest practice rules permitting assistance

• Habitat banking evaluation, design and permitting

• GIS mapping for quantitative and qualitative assessment and interpretation

• Backyard habitat creation and enhancement

Project Management

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• Administration

• Fund raising

• Project oversight/management

• Preparations of plans and specifications

• Data review/validation

• Local, State and Federal Government interaction

• NGO, Non-Profit interaction