Live Oak Associates provided ecological services that permitted the University of California to construct Phase 6 of the UC Merced Campus. Phase 6 entailed site preparation and initial infrastructure development across approximately 1,500 acres of the project site.

Live Oak Associates is part of the Project Management Team for Valley Water (formerly Santa Clara Valley Water District) on the Seismic Retrofit Project for Anderson Dam, the single largest capital improvement project in Valley Water’s history.

Live Oak Associates conducted protocol-level Fresno kangaroo rat trapping surveys to inform preparation of the project’s EIS/R and permit applications in 2016, and lead a team of consultants tasked with conducting biological pre-construction surveys and biological monitoring during project construction in 2020-2021.

Live Oak Associates has provided biological services for Communications Hill in San Jose since 2001 to the present.

Live Oak Associates completed a rare plant survey, addendum to delineation of waters of the United States, preparation of a Biological Assessment, agency permits, and miscellaneous consulting services.

Live Oak Associates has conducted all relevant biological surveys and reports on this project since its inception in 2010.

Live Oak Associates conducted a three-year study of special status plant and animal species occurrence within 8,730 acres of wildlands on the Tule River Indian Reservation that burned during the 2017 Pier Fire.

From 2004 to present, Live Oak Associates developed a special habitat management plan for the federally endangered Buena Vista Lake shrew on the Kern Fan Water Recharge Area, a 2,800-acre area owned and managed by the City of Bakersfield in Kern County.

Live Oak Associates conducted multiple spring and summer surveys for the planned development of large scale photo-voltaic solar energy projects within the approximately 21,000-acre Plan Area.

Live Oak Associates provided expert permitting consulting experience to the Regional Consultant Team (CH2MHILL/AECOM) to prepare supporting materials for the 2081 Incidental Take Permit Application for the 24.1 mile Merced to Fresno PP1 segment of the California High Speed Rail.

Live Oak Associates has completed annual Tier 1 and 2 surveys for San Joaquin kit fox, Tipton’s kangaroo rat, burrowing owl, blunt-nosed leopard lizard, birds, and vegetation for all sites.

Live Oak Associates assisted the client in establishing a federally approved (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) conservation bank on a 600-acre site on Kennedy Table, Madera County.

Live Oak Associates completed an investigation of the biotic resources of the project area and prepared a biological evaluation which evaluated project impacts that would result from updates to the community plan, per provisions of CEQA.

Live Oak Associates assisted Wistaria Ranch Solar, LLC from 2013 to 2014 in addressing landscape scale conservation questions related to burrowing owl and the development of several thousand acres of farmland in the Imperial Valley for adoption into the EIR that was being prepared for the project.

Live Oak Associates completed an investigation of the biotic resources of the project area and prepared a biological assessment which evaluated project impacts that would result from impacts of the project, per provisions of the Federal Endangered Species Act.