"Without Wildnote, a wetland delineation with over 200 features mapped took about a week’s worth of time to QA/QC and complete paper data forms. A comparable wetland project using Wildnote cut the QA/QC time for data forms down to a day. The time...

Environmentalism - What Counts, and Who’s Counting? One of the ironies of environmentalism is the lack of human diversity in a discipline utterly devoted to protecting and preserving diversity. While opening doors to invite diversity in is critical,...

Environmental conservationists and developers have long been uneasy partners at best and downright adversarial at worst. But that is steadily changing along with the evolution of mitigation banking. This win-win partnership has hatched an entire...

National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference Last week, the 20th annual National Mitigation & Ecosystem Banking Conference (NMEBC) was held in Sacramento, California. Mitigation banking leaders, representatives from federal and state...

Our beautiful state of California offers unique wildlife and environmental diversity. From the redwoods, to the chaparral, California contains one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity in the world. Environmental conservation, therefore,...

Steelhead Trout are the litmus test when conducting environmental monitoring to assess the health of San Luis Obispo (SLO) County’s watershed. Without doubt, the depletion of the trout foreshadows broader wildlife threats. Field biologist, Freddy...