R. Spencer Martin, M.E.M., Owner/Principal Ecologist

Mr. Martin’s academic and professional work has focused on community and landscape ecology, wildlife/habitat relationships, conservation biology, environmental planning, wetland ecology, and environmental regulatory compliance related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA), Clean Water Act (CWA), and a variety of state and local permit processes.

Mr. Martin has over 27 years of experience in natural resources research and consulting, including extensive fieldwork (vegetation, fisheries, wildlife, and/or wetland surveys) in various portions of the U.S including the Intermountain West, Northeast, Southeast, Alaska, and California. Mr. Martin has completed vegetation and wildlife surveys, wildlife/biodiversity technical reports, biological evaluations, biological assessments, management indicator species reports, and NEPA, ESA, CWA, and MBTA documentation for energy, transportation, and utility line projects in Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming; airport projects in Alaska; proposed ski area expansions in Utah, Colorado, and Vermont; and environmental planning projects in Utah and Idaho. Mr. Martin has conducted numerous big game surveys, identified mule deer and elk seasonal movement corridors, developed habitat mitigation plans, and written guidelines for minimizing impacts to wildlife associated with development at the wildland-urban interface.

Mr. Martin has been permitted through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct breeding bird surveys for a variety of federally listed species including the endangered southwestern willow flycatcher and threatened Mexican spotted owl. Additional sensitive bird species for which Mr. Martin has conducted surveys include greater sage-grouse, western yellow-billed cuckoo, Yuma clapper rail, northern goshawk, flammulated owl, burrowing owl, boreal owl, three-toed woodpecker, and loggerhead shrike. He has also led and participated in numerous breeding bird surveys as well as aerial (helicopter) raptor nest and sage-grouse lek surveys. Mr. Martin is certified for conducting jurisdictional wetland delineations through the Wetland Training Institute and is experienced in large-scale wetlands planning, mitigation, and permitting.