Dudek services

Dudek has designed and conducted a wide variety of aquatic studies and assessments throughout California in marine and estuarine environments, and in freshwater lentic and lotic habitats.

Our biologists, environmental planners and habitat restoration experts effectively determine each project’s survey requirements and manage a project’s planning, design, permitting and construction management phases. We have completed hundreds of biological monitoring projects in all of California’s diverse habitat types  on projects ranging from small parcels to ownerships of 30,000+ acres. Our experience translates into the highest quality and accurate biological resources mapping and documentation. We employ state-of-the-art field collection and GIS mapping for all projects. We offer highly educated, trained and experienced scientists in botany, mammalogy, herpetology, entomology, ornithology, spatial analysis, and habitat and wetlands restoration. We have state and federal permits for surveying, banding and trapping California’s threatened and endangered species.

Our fire protection planners, foresters, modelers and fire safety professionals are experts in natural landscape fire ecology throughout California. We understand the state’s arcane fire codes and the relationship between wildland fuels and the necessary ignition resistance for structures built in the wildland urban interface.We have completed hundreds of fire protection plans statewide. Our experts understand complex site constraints that can challenge successful fuel modification, secondary access, fire flow, and the many other fire protection features available today. We regularly work with fire authorities to consider alternative methods and materials to facilitate project approvals.

We assist clients with implementing required habitat restoration and management programs to offset biological impacts of their construction projects. Our licensed landscape architects are specialists in native habitat design and restoration who integrate into project plans their expertise in plant ecology, biology and conservation planning, ecological restoration, landscape architecture, hydrogeology and horticulture. We have an outstanding record of success in designing and implementing habitat restoration plans that are integrated with project-specific construction complexities while at the same time meeting regulatory agency requirements. Our native habitat landscape contracting subsidiary, Habitat Restoration Sciences (HRS), provides our clients turn-key planning, design, installation and monitoring services. Dudek’s landscape architects and HRS’ contractors work together to ensure that plans meet success criteria and achieve regulatory sign-off for our clients.

We have played a key role in California’s regional habitat conservation planning efforts since 1991 when the state enacted the Natural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) Act and pioneered state-level natural community conservation planning. We have been responsible for successful planning, permitting and implementing regional habitat conservation plans covering more than 2 million acres in California.

In California, as elsewhere in the United States, project activities affecting wetlands and stream channels are highly regulated. Wetlands provide complex functions and values needed for healthy natural systems serving as habitat for breeding, feeding and sheltering numerous wildlife species, flood protection and maintenance of water quality.We offer the full range of expertise needed to evaluate impacts, obtain regulatory permits, implement and manage wetland restoration, all with the goal of improving and sustaining these vital resources.