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William Davilla, M.S.
Principal and Senior Botanist
Mr. Davilla has over 30 years of management and field experience with botanical and interdisciplinary studies covering a spectrum of biological issues in both the public and private sectors. He is an acknowledged expert on the flora and plant communities of California. Mr. Davilla is experienced with projects under regulatory authority of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). He has designed, implemented, and supervised vegetation surveys, habitat characterizations, special-status plant studies, riparian studies, impact assessments, and long-term monitoring programs throughout California and the western United States.
Mr. Davilla has successfully managed over 500 biological projects. On numerous occasions, he has created and managed large field crew efforts and, thus, is familiar with the complex difficulties of field crew stability and organization. Large-scale projects he has managed include numerous rare plant survey and vegetation mapping projects in California and Nevada for government agencies such as the Plumas and Modoc National Forests (U.S. Forest Service), California Department of Parks and Recreation, the U.S. Navy, and Midpeninsula Open Space District; corridor botanical and wildlife surveys for transmission lines and gas pipelines, and other utility company project surveys, for clients such as PG&E, Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company, and Southern California Edison; and a number of CalTrans Natural Environment Studies on projects ranging from bridge replacements to highway re-routing. He has also compiled field survey data and prepared status reports for several hundred rare and endangered species in California, Oregon, and Nevada.
Mr. Davilla has served local governments in a number of capacities. He has acted as the biological reviewer and technical advisor for the County of Santa Cruz (California) Planning Department from 1983 to the present. He has directed and worked on the preparation of numerous biological resource sections of Environmental Impact Reports. He also supervised biological assessments and impact analysis for nearly a dozen University of California, Santa Cruz development projects. Recently, for the County of Monterey (California) Planning and Building Inspection Department, he oversaw the development and implemented a transplantation, enhancement, and adaptive management study for the federally-listed orchids Yadon's piperia orchid to mitigate impacts for the Pebble Beach Company's Del Monte Forest Preservation and Development Plan.
