2021 Virtual Exhibit Hall Participants
2021 Confirmed Virtual Exhibit Hall Participants
Condor Premier Sponsor
ERTEC Environmental Systems: ERTEC manufactures revolutionary erosion, sediment and wildlife control systems with twice the performance, half the total cost and ZERO Waste. Compared to traditional solutions such as silt fence and wattles, ERTEC’s sediment control technology significantly reduces unlawful sedimentation to global waterways. Compared to solid or perforated sheet or fabric, ERTEC’s wildlife control systems reduce installation and monitoring time and maintenance headaches. All ERTEC solutions function for long durations and reduce or eliminate post-construction waste to landfill. Link to Website
Bighorn Gold Sponsor
AECOM is the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. Link to Website
Ascent Environmental is a dynamic environmental, natural resources, urban design, and planning consultancy headquartered in Sacramento, California. With offices in the Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, and San Diego, we work throughout California and the Western United States. Our clients most often seek our assistance with their high-priority projects, particularly when faced with unusual compliance situations, complicated project issues, or first-of-its-kind undertakings where no precedent exists. Link to Website
We provide professional ecological consulting services to public, private, and non-profit clients. We assist clients through all project phases, from conception and planning to implementation and monitoring. Representative types of projects include traditional and renewable energy; oil and gas; water resources; transportation; public, private, and commercial development; farming, ranching, and dairy operations; timber harvest; vegetation management; mining; conservation, restoration, and management; and ecological research and monitoring. Link to Website
Dudek: We are environmental planners, scientists and engineers who help clients plan, design and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. We are creative, pragmatic problem-solvers working at the intersection of science, engineering, regulations, and multiple stakeholders’ interest to help clients achieve project goals. Link to Website
McCormick Biological: is a biological consulting firm based out of Bakersfield, CA. MBI specializes in a variety of professional biological services including biological resource inventory, evaluation of impacts to special-status species, endangered species surveys, general plant and wildlife surveys, impact analysis, mitigation plans and preparation of biological technical studies for EIRs and biological resource sections for CEQA documents. MBI specializes in biological resources of the San Joaquin Valley and surrounding areas. The firm has extensive experience with oil and gas exploration and production, urban development and alternative energy. Link to Website
Swaim Biological, Inc. is a multidisciplinary environmental consulting firm that applies scientific expertise, experience, initiative, and innovation to natural resource management. Swaim Biological conducts protocol-level status surveys, prepares mitigation and monitoring plans, habitat enhancement, management, and restoration plans, and develops take-avoidance measures specific to all levels of impact, for a wide variety of special-status fauna and flora species in and around the Bay Area. Link to Website
Sea Turtle Bronze Sponsor
GEI Consultants: GEI Consultants, Inc. is a consulting engineering and environmental firm that delivers value by providing professional services to improve our world’s built environments. With 900 staff and 42 offices nationwide, GEI is a leader in providing multi-disciplined engineering and technical services to a range of private and public sector clients domestically and abroad. Link to Website
Holohil Systems Limited: Holohil Systems Ltd. was formed to provide the wildlife research community with state-of-the-art VHF transmitters. The extensive expertise of our personnel enables us to provide an integrated service to the biologist on all aspects of wildlife telemetry and tracking. The following pages contain specifications of our transmitters. With more than 35 years of unmatched quality and customer service, what do you need that no one else has been able to produce? Link to Website
LOTEK: Our innovative and internationally recognized satellite, radio, acoustic, and archival monitoring solutions allow researchers to track animals of almost any size, in almost any environment. Whether an animal moves through a terrestrial, freshwater, marine or avian habitat, Lotek has a system to track it. Link to Website
The National Wildlife Federation: America’s experience with cherished landscapes and wildlife has helped define and shape our national character and identity for generations. Protecting these natural resources is a cause that has long united Americans from all walks of life and political stripes. To hunters, anglers, hikers, birders, wildlife watchers, boaters, climbers, campers, cyclists, gardeners, farmers, forest stewards, and other outdoor enthusiasts, this conservation ethic represents a sacred duty and obligation to protect and build upon our conservation heritage for the sake of wildlife, ourselves, our neighbors, and—most of all—for future generations. Link to Website
Wildlands: provides comprehensive habitat mitigation solutions, allowing public and private developers to comply with resource agency permit requirements and focus on their core business. Areas of Focus: Mitigation and Conservation Banking; Land Acquisition; Project Specific Mitigation Solutions; Habitat Fencing; Land Management and Agriculture; and Third Party Bank Management and Compliance. Link to Website
Exhibitors
(bio)accumulation: An Etsy retail outlet for the biological miscellany kicking around in TWS-member Matthew Bettelheim’s head; featuring vintage stickers, wall art printed on Styrene and metal, and more. Link to Website
Blue Aster Studio: We’re David and Jennie, and we make art and gifts inspired by the natural world. We love taking our experiences with plants and animals and turning them into fun stickers, buttons, and art prints for other nature lovers. Link to Website
Casey Girard: Art inspired by and representational of biology and nature. These pieces celebrate the diversity of our Earth’s fauna and flora and how we can enjoy and learn from them. Illustrations, printed as fine art prints, cards, stickers and more. Casey G is an illustrator, naturalist, and educator. They balance their illustration, teaching, and bird counts. As science and art are their passions, activities in their life play to those, tide pooling, teaching kids about birds, and art time. Link to website
Coyote Brush Studios: California Inspired Stickers, prints, greeting cards, zipper pouches, temporary tattoos, and more! Handmade with love in the golden state. Link to Website.
Laurel Mundy Illustration: I’m a naturalist and science illustrator creating illustrations of wildlife and landscapes of the west coast. Inspired by the trips I take birding and hiking throughout the west, I make cards, stickers, art prints, and other goodies out of my tiny house in the woods of western Washington. Link to website
Pangea Biological: Since Pangea Biological’s inception 14 years ago, our focus has included providing industry-specific, specialized support for the energy, utility, and infrastructure sectors, specifically with construction companies, utility companies, and engineering firms. Pangea’s value to our clients focuses on the environmental challenges and solutions combined with the unique nature of the design, construction, and restoration of infrastructure, energy, and utility projects. Our forte is with supporting design, feasibility, permitting, constructability, training, construction, and restoration of projects that cross the jurisdictions of various resource agencies, landowners, municipalities, states, and federal agencies, as well as the collaborative coordination required with these entities. Whether it is a natural gas pipeline, above or below ground electric transmission, battery storage, wind energy, or waterline, Pangea has extensive biological monitoring, environmental compliance, permitting, training, and constructability experience with the techniques, strategies, and challenges with the construction of over 2,850 infrastructure projects – this is where we provide our value and leadership as a company to ensure environmental compliance. Link to Website
San Diego Zoo Global: The mission of San Diego Zoo Global is to save species worldwide by uniting our expertise in animal and plant care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature. Using our family of brands to differentiate our campuses, projects, and initiatives, we strive to be at the forefront of wildlife conservation and education. Link to Website
TWS Hawaii Chapter: The Wildlife Society Hawai‘i Chapter dedicates itself to the conservation and preservation of flora and fauna endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Its membership is drawn from Honolulu, Kaua‘i, Mau‘i, and Hawai‘i (Big Island) counties. Link to Website
The Wildlife Society, San Francisco Bay Area: Coexistence With Wildlife. Study. Manage. Conserve. Link to Website
Our 2021 Virtual Expo Hall will be fully interactive, just like our meeting. Attendees will be able to engage with exhibitors in a centralized location to browse the different exhibits, view technology in action and connect directly – all within the the virtual booths! The virtual booth platform simulates the experience of a face-to-face meeting. Expect the best technology has to offer including demo videos, photos, links to job openings, and livestream presentations. Plus coupons, giveaways, raffles and more! The Exhibit Booths will be open for browsing before the meeting begins and they will also stay up for the rest of the year. Be sure to visit the support these TWS-WS supporters to show your appreciation of their support of Western Wildlifers. All booths will be open for “in person” office hours during the daily lunch break, and at other scheduled times as listed on their personal booth pages.