EcoBridges Environmental Consulting is a vehicle for Anne Wallace to serve clients, colleagues, and friends through 30 years of accumulated interests, skills, talents, experiences, trainings, and degrees. From professional student to business owner, the last 30 years have been full. As the name implies, EcoBridges represents a bridging of varied interests and skills.

EcoBridges, a California corporation, is a Caltrans-certified, PUC-certified small woman-owned business (SWBE).

Caltrans SWBE certification number: 34955
PUC certification number: 6KN00011

City of Grass Valley business license number: 11571

 
Principal and founder of EcoBridges, formerly cofounder of Ibis Environmental and formerly Anne Flannery, I have been a working wildlife biologist since 1982, an environmental consultant at large since 1986, an environmental consultant in California since 1990, a certified wildlife biologist since 1992, and a business owner since 1995. My MS was from Utah State University in 1988.

In 24+ years, my professional pursuits have included

• research, inventory, survey, trapping, tagging, writing, speaking, recommending, and analyzing;
• endangered birds, mammals, amphibians, fishes, reptiles, invertebrates, and plants;
• sensitive and endangered habitats such as wetlands, vernal pools, and riparian systems:

• in compliance with NEPA, CEQA, state/federal endangered species acts, the federal Clean Water Act, and most other relevant local, state, and federal regulations
• including surveys, impact assessment, environmental compliance, and mitigation development
• in such habitats as riparian, desert, coastal, woodland/forest, grassland, lowland, and mountain habitats
• in such regions as the Sierra foothills, the Modoc Plateau, northeastern California, Modoc and Lassen counties, northern Central Valley, southern Central Valley, the Coast Ranges, San Francisco Bay estuary, central California coast, and the Gold Country
• in such locations as Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Florida, New York, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico
• for such projects as pipelines, transmission lines, highways, recreation trails, mine-site reclamation, geothermal development, Air Force airspace actions, windfarms, FERC hydroelectric relicensing, and marsh restoration
• and for such clients as cities, counties, state agencies, federal agencies, utilities, private developers, and nonprofits

My primary focus and first love have been identification, biology, and distribution of birds, especially raptors and wetland/riparian species. Much of my experiential background has been in and around freshwater wetlands, wet meadows, salt marshes, riparian zones, and their associated uplands, particularly in northern California.

I have

• flown and piloted (as a private pilot for several years in the 1980s) many aerial surveys of waterfowl and white pelicans
• ground-surveyed nesting waterfowl and shorebirds
• trapped, banded, and counted migrating raptors
• banded raptor nestlings
• surveyed and banded nesting colonial seabirds
• conducted USFWS breeding bird surveys and Christmas bird counts
• ground-surveyed sandhill cranes and their nests, and located sandhill crane nests by helicopter
• walked miles of Sierra streams and rivers surveying foothill yellow-legged frog egg masses, tadpoles, subadults, and adults
• walked countless miles of California’s Central Valley surveying San Joaquin kit fox dens, burrowing owl dens, and tricolored blackbird colonies
• visited countless ponds, vernal pools, and creeks surveying California red-legged frogs, California tiger salamanders, and fairy and tadpole shrimp
• conducted dozens of protocol and preconstruction San Joaquin kit fox surveys (den searches, track plates, photo-bait stations, nighttime spotlighting, den excavation/exclusion)
• set and monitored a dozen small-mammal traplines
• trapped, tranquilized, and tagged American marten for six weeks in the Uintah Mountains of eastern Utah
• spent countless predawn and dusk hours listening for the breeding songs and calls of California clapper rails, California black rails, southwestern willow flycatchers, least Bell’s vireos, and other breeding birds
• and surveyed or studied many other California sensitive wildlife, following approved protocols where appropriate, including
  
  
• western spadefoots
• San Francisco garter snakes
• western pond turtles
• California least terns
• Cooper's hawks and northern goshawks
• spotted owls (northern and California subspecies)
• Swainson's hawks
• salt-marsh harvest mice
• western snowy plovers
• blunt‑nosed leopard lizards
• Carson wandering skippers (a butterfly)
• valley elderberry longhorn beetles
• and a few rare plants