Experience

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 Linda is a wildlife scientist and consultant known for her strong technical skills and clear communications with clients and permit agencies. She consistently achieves project permit approval in a timely and cost effective manner. Linda has 19 years of experience in wildlife science, wetland ecology, and consulting services. Her clients include local government agencies, private landowners and other consulting and engineering firms. She conducts ecological studies, prepares wetland studies and habitat restoration plans and provides permit guidance for a variety of infrastructure, residential and commercial development projects in Washington State. Linda is certified as a professional wetland scientist.
Linda regularly conducts scientific evaluations of proposed and current regulations to protect species and habitats at the federal, state and local level. She is currently working on Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) for several projects in Thurston County, including Bush Prairie HCP for the City of Tumwater and Port of Olympia, responding with innovation to changing regulatory conditions. Species covered by these plans include Mazama pocket gopher, Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, streaked horned lark, Oregon spotted frog, and Oregon vesper sparrow. 

 Steve Krippner is a geographer and GIS analyst with a Master of Science degree in natural resource management. Steve has 21 years of experience in the field of GIS, including 15 years experience in the public sector working in all facets of GIS provision. His clients include local government agencies, private landowners and other consulting and engineering firms. From data collection through data architecture and final output design, Steve has a long history of timely and cost effective service delivery. He synthesizes complex data and concepts and makes them easily to understand, particularly through maps. Most recently he has provided GIS data and analysis for several Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) in Tumwater, Lacey and unincorporated Thurston County. The geographic analysis that he has provided for HCPs has been essential to ongoing negotiation with USFWS and consensus building between the agency and his clients.