Construction Monitoring

When we take on your project, we are fully engaged and committed to its successful completion. Wilder personnel have collective decades of leadership experience on restoration, scientific, and environmental compliance field projects of varying sizes and scope, from remote island research outposts to 3,000+ acre utility scale alternative energy projects.

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Field Project Management

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We offer seasoned field staff with region-specific skills, and the management expertise to marshal personnel and ensure quality data collection at each stage of a project, from planning and initial surveys, to data collection and/or construction activities, and through to analyses, mapping and reporting.

Some aspects of field project management that we routinely provide:

  • Survey planning and staffing

  • Field safety, project orientation, and skills training for all staff

  • Environmental Awareness Training for new hires and construction personnel

  • Project Field Contact Representative – coordination with sub-contracting companies, agencies, additional stakeholders

  • Leadership in construction monitoring and environmental compliance

  • Daily staffing for monitoring and data collection

  • Cloud-based data management

  • On-demand mapping from the field

  • Analyses and reporting

Biological Resource Monitoring

We offer expertise in environmental compliance on heavy construction projects in the Mojave and Great Basin deserts.  We maintain a wide network of associates that we draw from to scale our services rapidly and flexibly as project needs evolve.

We often provide skilled and agency-authorized biologists as a sub-contractor on large infrastructure projects. Our personnel are routinely approved as Authorized (USFWS) or Designated (CDFW) Biologists for region-specific sensitive species, and have served in leadership roles for agency protocol surveys, data management, report preparation and compliance monitoring. 

Our team understands the substantial costs that may arise from unnecessary delays, which is why we deploy some of the most experienced fieldworkers in the region. Our goal is to anticipate and address emergent challenges before they become unavoidable problems that impact project schedules.

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An owl standing on dry, rocky ground near an animal-sized hole.
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Our monitors have region-specific experience to help inform contractors and collaborate to move projects forward while staying in compliance with applicable laws and project environmental mitigation plans.

  • Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)

  • Federal Endangered Species Act (FESA) 

    • Mammals

    • Reptiles

    • Plants

    • Birds

  • Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP)

  • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

  • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

  • Environmental Awareness Training

  • Clean Water Act

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  • A construction vehicle working on a dirt trail in a desert landscape with mountains in the background, and a person walking along the path.
  • Construction site in a desert landscape with a backhoe loader, a construction worker with a walkie-talkie, and stacks of concrete blocks.
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Environmental Awareness Training

We help operators, drivers, surveyors, and trades professionals do their best work.

We share our expertise in the field through safety training and education workshops, often administered to all personnel on site at heavy construction projects. Through these presentations, we contribute to a successful compliance effort and to worker safety, as we include a discussion of natural hazards commonly encountered on the job site. Such hazards can be weather related (heat, cold, wind) but also include many species of plants, insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals that regularly occur on job sites. 

Our biologists staffed on active construction sites are available to remove or mitigate for hazardous wildlife when it is interfering with operations.

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