COMPANY HISTORY*:

Biome Research Services started life as San Juan Environmental Studies in 1976 in Friday Harbor, Washington State. It's founder, W. Frederick Stevens earned his M.S. degree in Wildife Biology in 1974 from the College of Forest Resources (CFR), University of Washington (UW), Seattle, WA (B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1968). As a member of the Cooperative Parks Studies Unit (CPSU), a cooperative venture between the U.S. National Park Service and CFR UW, he had many wildlife experiences in National Park units throughout the Pacific Northwest Region of USNPS including Olympic NP (WA), Mt. Rainier NP (WA), Glacier Bay National Monument (now Park, AK),  North Cascades National Park Complex (WA), and San Juan Island National Historical Park (WA). At the latter, he conducted his thesis research on the European rabbit  Oryctolagus cuniculus, a pest species in the Park. Completely funded by the National Park Service, Mr. Stevens efforts on the rabbit gained him considerable broad-based natural, historical, economical, and geo-physical knowledge of the region. Following degree completion, he remained on the Island as a USNPS employee for the next two years after which he resigned his position and went into the environmental consulting business. While originally intended to meet the growing environmental requirements of local San Juan County, his integrity, openness, and in-depth understanding of the manner in which humans interact with their surroundings and the often unintended consequences of human machinations soon reached beyond local boundaries and compelled him to expand into other parts of Washington State and into Oregon, California, Alaska, and British Columbia for not only environmental assessment and impact mitigation, but also into wildlife management, damage control, hydrology, marine biology, and archeology to name just a few specialized scientific fields in which BRS was contracted. A team of up to 13 professionals within their own fields including marine and fisheries biologists, other wildlife biologists, archeologists, historians, sociologists, planners, and landscape architects soon joined BRS as fulltime employees with many other specialized personnel on retainer.

Biome Research Service has conducted thousands of investigations into virually all outdoor fields over the years from subdivisions to swimming ponds and from animal damage and wildlife management to drinking water to zoological gardens. We have experience in most North American ecotypes, lifezones, and biomes from Coastal to Alpine including such diverse types as Northern Coniferous, Eastern Deciduous, Sonoran Desert, Sub-Arctic, and Islands. Our philosophy has been that Man is a part of the environment and as such, can live in harmony with his surroundings with minimal impact and with no impact that cannot be mitigated to at least some degree.

In 1983, Mr. Stevens relocated BRS to rural upstate New York and continued the company in various parts of the Northeast. Following an accident, Mr. Stevens retired in 2003, but still retains clients either upon referral or application.

For more information on Mr. Stevens' personal life, see: The Adventurer's Life.

THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS:

When possible, BRS prefers to enable a client to manage his own internal (organic) human and physical resources toward the desired goal rather than supply labor and materials ourselves although this can be arranged. In an advise and consent manner, we will train and guide a client's personnel and other resources for management and resolution of a situation such that long term issues may be efficiently and quickly addressed internally rather than experience costly and time-consuming delays while waiting for external means to define and develop before finally working on a problem.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

W. Frederick Stevens
Biome Research Services
P.O. Box 1473
Salome, AZ 85348-1473

email (preferred method of contact): Biome Research Services
Phone: 607-316-1369

SERVICES CURRENTLY OFFERED:

Wildlife Investigations, Management, and Assessment.
Environmental Impact Assessment
Best Use Appraisals
Land-use Planning
Hydrology, Small Water Systems (Certified in Arizona)


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BRS Fee Schedule as of August 2006


*The BRS logo is of a stylized architect's symbol for a bush. Designed by BRS Senior Architect-Planner Kirk Bell in 1978, the logo has remained the company's representation for its commitment to the conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the natural environment while permitting human use of the land and its resources.