The
Firm
Pacific Southwest Biological Services Inc., (Pacific Southwest), is
a California-based corporation offering a wide range of ecological,
natural resource planning, and natural history services, including the
design and implementation of field survey programs for collection of
specific natural history baseline data, verification of previous biological
surveys conducted by outside agencies, data interpretation, analysis
of data for project planning and design, and preparation of reports
providing accurate and detailed results. All aspects of the biotic and
associated abiotic environment are included in the range of services
provided.more...
Pacific Southwest knows how to assemble
the team of specialists necessary to meet specific project requirements.
The firm provides clients with quality science, appropriate reporting
format, and resource management perspectives which encompass the clients’
options and choices relative to the requirements of the regulatory agencies.
The services provided by Pacific Southwest
are performed by experienced and appropriately permitted personnel.
Field survey programs are carefully designed to ensure maximum data
collection on a cost-effective basis. Data analysis and report preparation
are generally accomplished by the personnel participating in the fieldwork,
ensuring maximum utilization and understanding of the data.
Corporate
Philosophy
Pacific Southwest is committed to helping clients knowledgeably address
the increasingly complex biological issues associated with environmental
regulations. The firm’s professional team is dedicated to providing
clients with the most effective approaches to those issues. Pacific
Southwest’s management has a strong commitment to application
of appropriate technology and the implementation of creative solutions
to complex planning and sensitive environmental issues. Pacific Southwest
understands the environmental regulations that affect projects. Using
a proactive approach, the firm monitors potential environmental legislative
changes that may influence a particular business situation. Pacific
Southwest can implement programs to assist clients to operate profitably
and without unnecessary interruption.
Pacific Southwest performs high quality
work while maintaining schedules and cost control. Projects are well
planned and well organized to achieve optimum effectiveness and responsiveness
to clients’ needs. Planning and organization for all projects
incorporates the clients’ needs and expectations.
History
Pacific Southwest is a diversified professional biological services
firm with 29 years experience in providing biological expertise, permitting
support, and mitigation analysis for small, medium-sized, and major
private enterprises, other environmental consulting firms, and federal,
state, and local government agencies. The staff and affiliates have
conducted numerous solution-oriented biological, planning, environmental
resource management, and facility studies for a variety of both public
and private sector clients. Pacific Southwest, based in National City,
has conducted business as a California corporation since October 1978
and has completed more than 3,500 projects in southern California. The
company has expanded its services into northern California, Nevada,
Arizona, and Mexico. The firm’s president and sole shareholder,
R. Mitchel Beauchamp, also owns a sister-consulting firm, Tierra Madre
Consultants, Inc., located in Riverside, CA. Pacific Southwest operates
in Arizona as Gila Biological Services.
Initially, the majority of Pacific Southwest’s contract work involved
primarily development projects. The company has evolved and has gained
experience and developed expertise through participation in an extensive
range of undertakings.
Productivity determination
Habitat enhancement
Habitat evaluation
Habitat management
Habitat mapping
Habitat restoration design
Remote sensing
Ecosystem trends and changes
Verification of previous surveys for applicability, habitat change,
and stability
Biological due diligence/compliance
Revegetation
Rare, threatened, endangered, or unique species
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