Ms.
Claire is an environmental scientist and NEPA project manager for SWCA’s Four
Corners Region. She is professionally trained in project management, NEPA
compliance and permitting, resource management planning, and has a strong
background in Endangered Species Act compliance. She has 6 years of experience
working with private, federal, state, tribal, and local clients throughout the
southwestern United States. Ms. Claire has extensive practice in developing
resource-based, conditions-based, and issues-based NEPA analyses, having
contributed to over 100 NEPA documents throughout her career. Ms. Claire has
extensive practices in relocating and monitoring threatened and endangered
Species of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, including the razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), Brack’s hardwall
cactus (Sclerocaactus cloveriae var. brackii), inventory and tagging desert
tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), as
well as bald eagle (Haliaeetus
leucocephalus) and golden eagle (Aquila
chrysaetos), burrowing owl (Athene
cunicularia) surveys, and Migratory Bird Treaty Act surveys.