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Keane Biological Consulting (KBC) assists an expanding list
of clients in both government and private enterprise with any
type of field surveys for plants or critters.
Kathy Keane, founder and president of KBC, is a biologist and
ecologist who began her career in 1983 conducting surveys for endangered
species. In 1987 after graduating with her master’s degree in biology,
she was hired by an environmental consulting firm and initiated her
experience preparing a wide range of documents pursuant to environmental
laws governing biological resources.
Ms. Keane has an undergraduate degree in ecology from Cornell
University and a master's degree in terrestrial biology, with an
emphasis on ornithology, from Cal State Long Beach. She has
specialized experience with several special-status species in
southern California, including studies on the endangered California
Least Tern, which breeds along the coast in protected nesting areas
such as at the Port of Los Angeles. She has also conducted surveys
for the Western Snowy Plover and California gnatcatcher, and has
overseen the surveys of other biologists for all other southern
California endangered species.
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Ms. Keane has supervised the work of other biologists and biological
field teams for projects of less than one acre to those extending
over 3,000 acres or 50 linear miles. She has prepared biological
resources sections of Environmental Impact Reports, subcontracting the
work of other biological experts including botanists, insect specialists
and wildlife corridor experts, conducted and supervised focused surveys
on 18 special-status species, and provided mitigation and construction
monitoring services for private residential projects to large-scale
utility projects.
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