Avery Bowen is a biologist with experience in environmental consulting and state government, with project experience in biological monitoring, restoration, special-status species surveys, and regulatory compliance. Her interdisciplinary background in environmental science, management, and legal studies gives her a strong foundation in both field biology and the regulatory frameworks that guide environmental planning.
Her experience includes biological construction monitoring, nesting bird surveys, habitat suitability analysis, and protocol-level surveys for special-status species, as well as restoration work involving prescribed burns, invasive species management, and forestry operations. Additionally, she has conducted water resource management projects encompassing water quality and stormwater sampling, fish relocations, flow velocity monitoring, and groundwater sustainability compliance. She has worked with a wide-range special-status reptiles, birds, mammals, amphibians, and insects, including but not limited to: blunt-nosed leopard lizard, San Francisco garter snake, Swainson's hawk, Crotch's bumble bee, burrowing owl, San Joaquin kit fox, Santa Cruz kangaroo rat, tidewater goby and California red-legged frog. She also supports technical report writing for California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and general environmental permitting.
