Services

Our firm provides high-quality, science-based products and services
to address each project’s goals and unique circumstances.

Our services include: 

Conservation and Management Planning and Implementation

Developing and implementing plans and policies to guide strategic land protection, effective habitat management, and sustainable habitat restoration, including exotic plant control and revegetation

Applied Conservation Research and Management

Designing and implementing research, experimental management, and long-term monitoring programs for rare plant and animal species and sensitive habitats, including prescribed burns and rare plant introductions

Surveys
and Assessments

Conducting biological surveys, habitat assessments and characterizations, and mapping studies for rare species, natural communities, and sensitive habitats, to inform the design of conservation projects as well as development, utility, and infrastructure projects

Environmental Permitting
and Compliance

Preparing environmental compliance and permitting documents required under the federal and California Endangered Species Act (ESA and CESA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as other local, state, and federal regulations

Baseline Documentation Reports

Preparing baseline documentation reports and accompanying spatial databases to establish the baseline conditions of preserves and facilitate conservation easement monitoring

Geographic Information Systems Analysis

Conducting spatial analyses, modelling, and cartography using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to analyze, plan, and communicate our projects

Biological Construction Monitoring and Species Protection

Providing support for construction projects, including by implementing species protection measures, biological monitoring, and post-project restoration

Our Clients

JMc serves a wide range of public and private entities with the projects of various sizes. 
The following lists some of the clients whom we have served on successful projects since our founding in 2001.  

Land Trusts

The Nature Conservancy

  • Bay Area Conservation Assessment for Regional Advance Mitigation Plan 
  • Conservation Targets of the South Inner Coast Range 
  • Biological Resources Assessment of the Salinas River
  • Grassland Management Plan for Palo Corona Regional Park 
  • Conservation Easement Documentation Reports for Five Ranches in Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties

Land Trust of Santa Cruz County

  • Conservation Blueprint for Santa Cruz County
  • Sandhills Conservation and Management Plan 
  • Farmland Protection Plan
  • Conceptual Area Protection Plan for the Santa Cruz Sandhills 
  • Sandhills Management Plan for the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County Properties 

Big Sur Land Trust

  • Conservation Easement Documentation Report for Two Ranches, Monterey County  
  • Effects of the Basin Complex Fire on California Sycamore and Oak Savannas, Monterey County

Santa Lucia Conservancy

  • Easement Documentation Report for Lot 65
  • Vegetation Map for the Santa Lucia Conservancy
  • Long-Term Photomonitoring of Grasslands

Sempervirens Fund

  • Santa Cruz Mountains Redwoods Conceptual Area Protected Plan
  • Conservation Plan for Camp Jones Gulch 

Peninsula Open Space Trust

  • Santa Cruz Mountains Linkages Conceptual Area Protection Plan 
  • Baseline Documentation Report for Northern Coyote Valley Properties

Private Landowners

Granite Rock Company

  • Long-Term Management Plan for the Quail Hollow Quarry Habitat Conservation Plan 
  • Preserve Manager, Quail Hollow Quarry Conservation Areas

CEMEX

    • Restoration of the Olympia Quarry 

Newhall Land and Farming/FivePoint Communities

    • Habitat Characterization for the San Fernando Valley Spineflower 
    • Experimental Reintroduction of the San Fernando Valley Spineflower 

PCO, LLC

  • Adaptive Management and Monitoring Plan for the Zayante Sandhills Conservation Bank
  • Preserve Manager, Ben Lomond Sandhills Preserve

Passport Resorts, LLC

  • Smith’s Blue Butterfly and Host Plant Surveys for Post Ranch Inn Habitat Conservation Plan 

Metro PCS, Inc. and AT&T Mobility

  • Habitat Mitigation Plan for the Willow Pond Project

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

  • Mount Hermon June Beetle and Ben Lomond spineflower species and post-project restoration protection (several gas line projects) 
  • Mitigation Planning and Project Assistance 

Verizon Wireless

  • Habitat Conservation Plan for the Verizon Wireless Telecommunications Facility Expansion Project 

Individual Residential Landowners

  • Habitat Conservation Plan for Endangered Sandhills species on five private residential parcels

The Salvation Army

  • Habitat Conservation Plan for the Mount Hermon June Beetle and Ben Lomond Spineflower

Government Agencies

United States Fish and Wildlife Service

  • Santa Cruz Cypress Population Mapping and Demographic Monitoring 
  • Santa Cruz Cypress Post-Fire Monitoring 
  • Monterey Endangered Plant Population Surveys and Monitoring

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

  • Land Management Plan for the Carrizo Plain Ecological Reserve
  • Ben Lomond Wallflower Experimental Reintroduction

County of San Luis Obispo

  • Los Osos Habitat Conservation Plan

County of Monterey

  • Yadon’s Piperia Habitat Characterization 
  • Yadon’s Piperia Experimental Management Research Program

Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District

  • Vision Plan for the San Francisco Peninsula

Santa Clara County Open Space Authority

  • Conservation Grazing Management Policy
  • Grazing Management Plans for Three Open Space Preserves
  • Santa Clara County Regional Conservation Investment Strategy (Project Manager)
  • Santa Clara County Subregional Assessment for the Bay Area Regional Advance Mitigation Program 
  • Baseline Documentation Report for the North Coyote Valley Properties

Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency

  • Climate Change Adaptation Approaches

Fort Ord Reuse Authority

  • Plant Monitoring Plan for the Installation-Wide Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan for the Former Fort Ord 

San Lorenzo Valley Water District

  • Habitat Conservation Plan for the La Madrona Well Pump Project 
  • Habitat Conservation Plan for the Probation Tank Replacement Project 
  • Pasatiempo Well Replacement Project
  • Lompico Tanks Replacement Project  
  • Habitat Assessment and Surveys for the Olympia Wellfield Wetlands Mitigation Plan
  • Habitat Management Plan for the Olympia Conservation Area

City of Santa Cruz

  • Habitat Management and Monitoring Plan for the Laguna Watershed Property Mitigation Area 
  • Concrete Tanks Replacement Project 
  • Newell Creek Pipeline Replacement Project Sandhills Assessment and Rare Plant Surveys
  • Mount Hermon June Beetle Monitoring for the Laguna Sandhills Preserve 

Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County

  • Santa Cruz County Regional Conservation Investment Strategy (in prep.)
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