Forde has provides consulting services for operations and maintenance including pre-construction surveys, nesting bird surveys, and species-specific surveys.

Forde provides services for major utilities environmental projects, deteriorated pole, transmission line operations, and road maintenance programs, including biological assessments, general botanical and wildlife surveys, species-specific surveys, nesting bird surveys, and construction monitoring.

Forde conducted general pre-construction biological resource surveys, nest surveys, special-status species surveys which included southern California legless lizard, least Bell’s vireo, burrowing owl, and bats (acoustical and emergence), and monitored resources during demolition.

Forde prepared the biological assessment, attended meetings with the City of Malibu, California Coastal Commission, the Environmental Review Board, and participated in public hearings during processing of the Coastal Development Permit. Forde implemented mitigation measures and monitored construction activities to ensure biological resources were not affected.

Forde performed multi-year least Bell’s vireo and general nesting bird surveys at the Ballona freshwater marsh in Playa Vista. Our biologists mapped least Bell’s vireo territories, determined nesting status, and mapped other special-status species observed within the survey area each year.

Forde conducted bat habitat assessments, daytime surveys and nighttime surveys using spotlights, infrared lights, night-vision cameras, and acoustical bat surveys to determine species using the site for foraging and roosting.

Forde collaborated on a research project with Dr. Linnea Hall of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology Museum in Camarillo. The purpose of the research is to determine population densities and distributions of Southwestern willow flycatcher and Western yellow-billed cuckoo and measure characteristics of breeding habitat used by the two species.