Strategic Advice

Where policy and science flow together

Proven strategies to navigate complex environmental initiatives in a multi-party, multi-purpose world to reach durable water solutions.

Ingenuity: Unpacking complexity and charting a path through implementation. Fluency: Leading your team through complex planning and consultations. Track Record: We deliver every time.
Science FirstDefensible outcomes
20+ yrsComplex operations & policy
Federal, State, LocalBridge builders

Services

Communities benefit from equitable allocations and increased reliability. Agnecies benefit from transparent, defensible decisions that can withstand scrutiny by interested parties. Environmental organizations can rely on unbiased factual approaches.

Plan Formulation

Decison Support and trade-off analysis to formulate your objectives, estimate resource needs, and help you through the process to achieve durable outcomes.

  • Operations playbooks & decision trees
  • Trade-off analysis & SDM planning
  • Modeling reviews & scenario design

Regulatory Compliance

Risk analyses, decision support tools, and strategies for regulatory compliance and agency implementation to support accountability aligned with your objectives.

  • Consultation strategy (ESA §7)
  • NEPA/CEQA alignment & comment strategy
  • Standards interpretation & implementation

Project Management

Translate project needs and regulations into practical steps that create a glide path to implementation including public engagement, interagency coordination, and contracts.

  • Coordination frameworks & charters
  • Water contracts
  • Performance metrics & AM plans
  • Stakeholder alignment & facilitation

About Us

Our Approach

We start with clear objectives, map the constraints, and design options that can be operationalized. Every recommendation is testable, traceable, and tied to decision thresholds.

  • Our careers have take the "impossible" and found paths to implementation.
  • We’ve taken the time to understand local and regional interests across the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
  • We know system-wide decision spaces, disciplines, and legal-contractual-regulatory policies.
  • Others bring problems, we innovate to implement solutions in a regulated world.
  • We come with plans A, B, C, and Z if needed, to manage risks as things change, as they inevitably do.

“Policy without physics and biology fails in practice. Physics and biology without policy fails in court. We bridge both—so operations work in the river and on the record.”

Track Record

Contact

Let’s discuss your operations, regulatory path, or governance needs. We’re happy to start with a short scoping call when we open our doors in February, 2026.