Althouse And Meade, Inc.

Althouse and Meade, Inc. (A&M) is a world class environmental consulting company based in California's Central Coast. A&M is a certified woman-owned small business. We conduct biological surveys, wetland delineations, surface water quality studies, environmental investigations, rare species surveys, biological research projects, monitoring, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)/National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, compliance management, and natural resource permitting for government agencies and private landowners. We also produce biological resource documents for agency use, completing more than twelve hundred projects in the last fifteen years. A&M works closely with agency professionals and landowners to develop cooperative agreements based on good science and permitting obligations. Althouse and Meade, Inc. is committed to teamwork in project planning and implementation. Our team has conducted resource surveys and assisted with conservation planning on over 120,000 acres in California, primarily Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, and Kern Counties. A&M is adept at conducting large scale biological surveys, including current studies on properties of 25,000 and 10,000 acres in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, respectively. Althouse and Meade, Inc. strengths are in science-based objective studies, including biological resources field investigation, botanical identification, wildlife survey, fisheries, surface water quality, information synthesis, and recommendations for measures to avoid negative effects. If avoidance is not possible, A&M provides reasonable and feasible mitigation measures consistent with standards acceptable to authorizing agencies.