Founded in 1996, BonTerra Consulting is a certified woman-owned small business that provides environmental planning, natural resources management, air quality/climate change and noise analyses, habitat restoration, and cultural resources management services to public and private-sector clients throughout Southern and Central California. The 8 principals of the firm, Joan Patronite Kelly, AICP, Thomas E. Smith Jr., AICP, Kathleen Brady, AICP, Ann M. Johnston, Tina Andersen, Dana C. Privitt, AICP, Gary Medeiros, and Melissa Howe have over 190 years of collective, hands-on experience.

BonTerra Consulting’s Environmental and Project Management Services, Biological Resources, Habitat Restoration, Regulatory Processing, Cultural Resources, and Air Quality and Noise Divisions include experienced and technically qualified Environmental Planners, Regulatory Specialists, Archaeologists, Botanists, Certified Arborists, Ornithologists, Wildlife Biologists, Restoration Ecologists, and Engineers that work together as a highly effective team to meet the requirements of our clients’ projects. This group of professionals is recognized as one of the most experienced team of environmental professionals in the Southern and Central California consulting community in environmental planning, impact assessment, natural resources management, biological surveys, and in city and regional planning studies for public agencies and private-sector clients.

Project experience includes: infrastructure systems such as transportation corridors, highways, and bridges, airports, transmission lines, landfills, material recovery facilities (MRFs), wastewater and water supply facilities; master planned communities; parks, golf courses, and recreational facilities; entertainment theme parks; and urban in-fill projects, including office complexes, mixed-use employment and retail business parks, aerospace conversions, and commercial/retail centers