At Clifton Environmental, we have an array of services to assist in all of your diverse project needs.
Forestry Services
Registered Professional Forester Estelle Clifton and her team can help you plan, manage, and maintain your forest resources for forest health, sustainability, and productivity.
Services include:
- Preparing Plans – Forest Management Plans, Timber Harvest Plans, Non-Industrial Timber Management Plans, Smoke Management Plans, Road Management Plans and Erosion Control Plans
- Forest inventories and timber valuations
- Vegetation mapping
- Road management and design
- Administration of operations, including agreements with contractors and oversight of their services, timber yield accounting, and preparation of timber tax returns
- Project management of qualified professionals, including biologists, geologists, engineers, and archaeologists
- Reforestation projects
Forestry refers to the science and practice of managing forested landscapes and the treatment of the forest cover in general, and includes, among other things, the application of scientific knowledge and forestry principles in the fields of fuels management and forest protection, timber growing and utilization, forest inventories, forest economics, forest valuation and finance, and the evaluation and mitigation of impacts from forestry activities on watershed and scenic values.
Biological Services
We provide independent natural environment evaluations and various management services to support your compliance and planning needs.
Services include:
- Biological Resource Assessments
- Baseline Studies
- State and federal protocol-level special-status plant and plant community surveys
- Protocol Surveys for Northern Spotted Owl (NSO)
- Invasive Plant Management Plans and Monitoring
- Habitat Restoration Plans and Monitoring
- Mitigation and Monitoring Plans
- Watercourse classification and stream surveys
- Wetland Delineations that meet requirements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Technical Report (Y-87-1) and the California Coastal Act guidelines
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mapping
Planning, Permitting & Project Management
Efficiency in project planning is achieved by working closely with clients. Services include regulatory coordination, permits acquisition, development of both small domestic use and large appropriative water rights applications, coordination of consultants and contractors, and guiding project development and implementation.
- Section 1600 Lake and Stream Alternation Agreement (CDFW)
- California Endangered Species Act (ESA) (CDFW)
- Federal ESA (U.S. FWS and NOAA)
- Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 404 (U.S. ACOE)
- CWA Section 401 (CWQCB)