Past and Current Clients

Below is a sample list of clients and project sites for recently completed and current projects.

Baseline Wildlife Surveys for the proposed Two Rivers Windfarm Project near Shirley Basin, Wyoming: Currently conducting surveys over two years for raptor use and nesting on the site and within a 10-mile buffer; conduct spring, fall and winter passerine surveys using point-count methodology; sage-grouse lek surveys on the ground and from the air using both fixed-wing and helicopter modes; mountain plover surveys; burrowing owl surveys; night-time spotlighting surveys for black-footed ferrets and swift fox; big game winter surveys.

Baseline wildlife surveys for the Boswell Springs proposed wind farm project in northeast Albany County, Wyoming: Surveys included extensive raptor and passerine bird surveys using point-count methodology in addition to sage-grouse lek surveys and big game use surveys. Night-time spotlighting surveyed the site for black-footed ferrets and swift fox. Surveys continued year-round for three years.

Tolsa Wyoming Bentonite, Inc.: Baseline raptor, sage-grouse, threatened and endangered species surveys; vegetation sampling to establish baseline species abundance and cover; and preparation of the Appendix D8, D9 and D10 for a non-coal mine permit.

Sunrock Corporation: Conducted wildlife and vegetation baseline surveys and continued with long-term monitoring for two gravel mine operations in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming.

Energy Fuels, Inc.: Conduct annual raptor nest surveys for a proposed uranium mine near Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

Mountain Meadows Laramie River Rehabilitation Project:  Conducted a wetland delineation and prepared an aquatic resourced report for WWC Engineering; the purpose of the project was to rehabilitate a reach of the Laramie River in Albany County, Wyoming.

Alamosa River Restoration Project, 2018 and 2012 segments. Assisted Wenck and Associates, Inc., on design for wetland restoration river segments of the Alamosa River in southern Colorado.

Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse surveys at the Wyoming Army National Guard Camp Guernsey Training Area: Conducted trapping surveys to determine the presence of this threated wildlife species on five wetland sites at the training area.

City of Laramie and DOLW HKM: Wetland Delineation and Wetland Mitigation for the City of Laramie Pipeline Project to meet permit requirements with the Army Corps of Engineers with subsequent monitoring.

Guernsey State Park Bison Introduction Environmental Assessment: Prepare the EA for planned introduction of bison at the Guernsey State Park. 

State of Wyoming Storage Tank Program: Threatened and endangered species clearance and cultural resource clearance for proposed remediation sites.  Real West has completed STP projects for Inberg-Miller Engineers, TriHydro Corporation, Maxim Technologies, Inc., Delta Environmental Consultants, Inc., Respec, Inc., Seacor International, Inc., CGRS, Inc., LT Environmental, Antea Group, Stantec Services, Inc., and Fremont Environmental.

U.S. Bentonite Processing, Inc.: Vegetation and Wildlife surveys for State of Wyoming Dept of Environmental Quality permitting for various bentonite mine sites.

Land Recyclers, Inc.: Threatened and Endangered Species review and analysis for proposed cell tower construction on sites in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas and Minnesota. 

Wildlife Surveys for proposed coalbed methane sites in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin for: EMATS, Inc., J.M Huber Corp., Black Diamond, CH4 Energy, Inc., Baker Energy, Inc., Pearl Development, and CBM Associates, Inc: Real West conducted environmental evaluations, Threatened and Endangered species surveys, sage-grouse lek surveys, and habitat assessments of proposed coalbed methane well sites in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and southeastern Montana.

Sinclair Oil Pipeline: Environmental compliance monitor to ensure compliance with all stormwater control measures and threatened and endangered species stipulations for a 102-mile pipeline construction project in central Wyoming.

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality – Abandoned Mine Lands Program: National Environmental Policy (NEPA) clearance and compliance coordinator for numerous abandoned mine sites throughout Wyoming.

Wyoming Natural Diversity Database and the State Office of the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management: Species Assessments for the midget faded rattlesnake, bald eagle, ferruginous hawk, trumpeter swan, and whooping crane.

Colorado Bureau of Land Management: Biological Assessment for the Least Tern, Piping Plover, Arkansas Darter, and Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse

Wyoming Bureau of Land Management: Biological Assessment for the Pygmy Rabbit, Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse, and Whooping Crane.

Biological Assessment and Evaluation for South Dakota Broadcasting Microwave Tower Site (Subcontractor to Land Recyclers, Inc.)  Conducted site surveys and reporting for a proposed microwave tower on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands of the Nebraska National Forest.