ABOUT US
Endemic Environmental Services, Inc. is a renowned multidisciplinary environmental consulting firm that serves public and private sector clients. Our team members apply their scientific expertise, experience, initiative, and innovation to natural resource management.
Our mission: To provide expert guidance and innovative solutions that empower our clients and sustain biodiversity amidst an evolving society.
OUR VALUES
Responsiveness and Hard Working
EES has a reputation for providing high-quality services that exceeds our clients’ expectations and meets their goals in a time effective manner. We are constantly striving to improve our approaches by being up to date with our specializations and knowledge-sharing with professional organizations. We foster continuing learning and self-improvement for our team to succeed. This success is applied to our work executed for our clients.
Problem-Solving Attitude
EES is known for using innovations in technology and diligence to helping our clients to significant ways. We listen to our clients and are supportive in finding ways to resolve their concerns and challenges. Our focus is in empowering our staff to develop productive and pragmatic solutions.
Fairness, Respect and Flexibility
EES acts in a dignified way, treating our individual clients with fair negotiations and respect. We strive to build long lasting trusting relationships by treating our clients with respect. We promote the need for flexibility in achieving work-life balance for our team, which allows for flexibility with our clients.
Collaborative
EES fosters team approach by sharing of knowledge and we bring diverse perspectives to the communities that we serve. We impart the lessons learned and effectiveness of different approaches to our clients.
MEET OUR TEAM
BARRY NERHUS, MS, QSD, QSP, CESSWI
LUMA FOWLER, MS, QAL
DEAN NERHUS
KENT NERHUS
JESSE ALLEN, QSD/P, QISP, WPCM, CPESC
BRIAN MAYERLE, SENIOR ECOLOGIST, BOTANIST, BIOLOGIST
THEA WANG, PhD
Barry Nerhus founded Endemic Environmental Services in 2009, while in graduate school studying the western pond turtle for his MS in Biology Studies at Cal State University, Long Beach. As a trained conservation biologist, his goal was to operate a company with staff that focuses on habitat restoration, biological studies, and environmental compliance..
In 2011, Barry incorporated Endemic Environmental Services Inc. as a S-Corporation in California.
In 2018, Endemic Environmental was awarded by the California Better Business Bureau for it's Environmental Stewardship Program.
Since 2015 to present, Endemic Environmental has been certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Small Business Enterprise-Micro and Minority Business Enterprise. We expanded our strengths in offering additional hydroseeding services, holding a C-27 license for landscaping a Qualified Applicator’s License and also water resources management. We are registered with CA Department of Industrial Relations (DIR)
Our staff of biologists hold USFWS 10 (a)1(A) permits, and CDFW scientific collecting permits for various protected/endangered species.
OUR HISTORY
OUR SERVICES
GIVING BACK
The Institute for Conservation Research and Education (ICRE) presents the Ecological Field Studies to high school students each year. Barry Nerhus, MS is the founder and president of this non-profit organization.
In the 2018-2019 school year, 120 students participated from four schools producing 48 research projects. During the program, students conduct real-world ecological research. Acting as ecologists, with guidance from professionals, students develop a question and a hypothesis, and identify the best research methods and techniques to test their hypothesis. With field equipment in hand, students set up their experiments and collect data approximately one day each month over most of the school year. Near the end of the data collection period, students begin constructing posters that will display their work and results. Once collection is complete, students analyze their results and make conclusions that are shared and discussed with other students, their families, and community members at an end-of-year poster presentation.
Through the support of donors, ICRE provides one-on-one staff time with the students both in the field and in the classroom. Staff are trained to facilitate the students’ experience but not to do their work for them. Staff provide feedback and encouragement as students struggle to improve their technique and produce the best results that they can. Funding is also used to provide necessary equipment for the research projects and supplies for the making of posters and at the poster presentation.
Through the support of landowners, ICRE provides local interesting places to visit, each with their own story to tell and be discovered by the students’ work. For more information, visit www.icreglobal.org.