Waring Laurendine
Senior Environmental Biologist

Mr. Laurendine is recognized as a successful regulatory compliance consultant with many projects being successfully permitted. He has provided consulting services to a variety of clients including local agencies, large developers, planning firms, attorneys, city and counties, water districts, as well as large oil and gas companies. His areas of expertise include the following:

Delineation of Jurisdictional Waters. Mr. Laurendine has completed specialized training in wetland delineation methodologies and during the past fifteen years he has completed numerous detailed wetland delineations. He has conducted studies in areas with tidal influence to high montane meadows.

Wetland Permit Assistance. Mr. Laurendine has prepared support documentation for many clients requiring formal consultation under Section 2081 of the California Fish and Game Code and Section 7 consultation with the United Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Permit packages for clients needing permits from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Commission, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, California Department of Fish and Game, Office of Historic Preservation, National Marine Fisheries Service and the Department of Water Resources have been routinely obtained. Provided legal advice and mediated between CDFG and clients to resolve their waterway infractions that could have lead to court.

Special status Species Surveys. Mr. Laurendine has conducted numerous surveys for threatened or endangered animals, and/or their habitats, and assisted his clients with mitigation that reduced impacts to such species. In addition, he has prepared supporting material for both section 7(a) and 10(a) consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Laurendine has assisted in the preparation the Management Plan for the Elk Hills Conservation Area and served as the senior environmental biologist responsible for monitoring threatened and endangered species within the Elk Hills Oil Field and Occidental of Elk Hills Conservation Area. In addition, Mr. Laurendine prepared the Biological Opinion for the Section 7 consultation for Plains All American Pipeline Company Operation and Maintenance Program. Their facilities extended from Kern County to the Colorado River. On a similar note, Mr. Laurendine prepared the Biological Opinion for the Southern California Gas Company’s Northern Service Territory (Kern, Tulare, Kings, and Fresno counties). Species included: San Joaquin kit fox, giant kangaroo rat, Tipton kangaroo rat, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, San Joaquin woolly threads, Hoover’s wooly-star, Kern mallow, Bakersfield cactus, and many more.

Preparation of CEQA/NEPA Documents. Mr. Laurendine has prepared portions of numerous EIR’s, initial studies, and NEPA documents requiring reconnaissance level wetland delineations, special- status species surveys, habitat mapping, etc. As a project manager for many of these projects, he has supervised interdisciplinary teams of biologists characterizing the biological setting of project sites and planning areas, determining project impacts, and developing conceptual mitigation plans consistent with the requirements of CEQA and NEPA.