About

COMPANY PROFILE

Intermountain Ecosystems, LLC. began doing business in 1986 and specializes in T&E and wildlife inventories, wetland delineations, permitting, mitigation and creation and NEPA compliance ( EA and BA).

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Ronald J. Kass completed a Ph.D., in plant ecology at New Mexico State University and received his M.S. in botany at Brigham Young University. His academic career focused on rare plants monitoring, disturbance in forest riparian communities and floristic studies in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.

He has 31 years of professional consulting experience and principal investigator on more than 200 projects focusing on compliance for the Clean Water, Endangered Species and National Environmental Policy Acts. He is certified as a Professional Wetland Scientist by the Society of Wetland Scientists and included on the USACOE list of consultants.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Depart. of Biology, Plant Community Ecology, 1992.
• M.S. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Depart. of Botany and Range Science, Plant Taxonomy, 1983.
• B.S Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Depart. of Zoology, Wildlife Ecology, 1978

PUBLICATIONS

• 5 scientific publications and 100 non-refereed reports

SUPPORTIVE PERSONNEL

Paul Dawson, Ph.D., Wildlife Biologist
Full GIS Staff (Geographic Information Systems)