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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 with over 20 years of field experience and 15 years of experience preparing 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 20 years of studies on the endangered California Least Tern, which breeds along the coast in protected nesting areas such as at the Port of Los Angeles.
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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