Botanical

Yancey provides comprehensive botanical consulting services for public and private projects across a wide range of ecosystems, with extensive experience in state and federally listed plant species

Services include:

  • Protocol-level focused and floristic botanical surveys

  • Rare plant surveys in compliance with federal, state, and local agency requirements

  • Vegetation mapping and classification (including CNPS, Holland, and regional vegetation systems)

  • Habitat assessments and botanical resource evaluations

  • Construction-phase botanical monitoring

  • Mitigation planning, implementation, and long-term monitoring

  • Native plant salvage, relocation, and re-establishment

  • Plant voucher collection and documentation

  • Support for renewable energy, infrastructure, utility, land development, and linear projects

Yancey offers a full range of biological consulting services with deep expertise in wildlife surveys, habitat evaluations, and construction monitoring for sensitive species.

Biological

Services include:

  • Biological resource assessments (BRAs)

  • Wildlife habitat assessments and evaluations

  • Protocol and focused wildlife surveys, including:

    • Desert tortoise

    • Blunt-nosed leopard lizard

    • Burrowing owl

    • San Joaquin kit fox

    • Raptors and nesting birds

    • Southwestern willow flycatcher

    • Yellow-billed cuckoo

    • Aquatic and vernal pool species (fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp, amphibians)

  • Pre-construction clearance surveys

  • Biological construction monitoring

  • Mitigation monitoring and reporting

  • Multi-disciplinary team coordination and field management

  • Long-term monitoring programs for large-scale and linear projects

Wetlands

Yancey is an experienced wetland delineator with hundreds of completed delineations and extensive permitting experience under federal and state programs.

Services include:

  • Wetland delineations using current USACE methodology

  • Jurisdictional waters determinations

  • Stream and river crossing assessments

  • Wetland impact assessments

  • Aquatic resource mapping

  • Permit application support, including:

    • Clean Water Act Section 401

    • Clean Water Act Section 404

    • State streambed alteration agreements

  • Permit compliance monitoring

  • Agency coordination with USACE, state agencies, and local jurisdictions

  • Wetland services for transportation, utility, energy, agricultural, and development projects

Yancey provides cradle-to-grave regulatory support, helping clients navigate complex environmental regulations efficiently and defensibly

Regulatory Compliance

Services include:

  • NEPA compliance (EAs, EIS support, technical studies)

  • CEQA compliance (IS/MNDs, EIR technical sections)

  • Biological technical reports and permit documentation

  • ESA compliance support (federal and state)

  • USACE permitting coordination

  • Agency consultation and coordination

  • Environmental constraints analysis

  • Mitigation planning and reporting

  • Project scoping, budgeting, and scheduling

  • QA/QC review of biological and environmental documents