STEVE MATTHEWS, AICP, Director of EPG’s Boise Idaho and Portland Oregon Offices and Senior Planner. Mr. Matthews is a senior project manager, and land use planner with over 24 years of diverse experience. Specializing in land use, and environmental compliance programs, Mr. Matthews has the ability to steer complex multi-jurisdictional projects that require obtaining consensus from wide interests while meeting regulatory requirements. Mr. Matthews has been a project manager and principal author for scores of land use planning, environmental assessments, NEPA, SEPA, and CEQA documents for a wide range of local, state, federal and private clients nationally. His work represents the ability recognize clients needs and to develop standards and templates that meet and exceed regulatory requirements. His utility infrastructure experience includes 500kV (AC & DC), 345kV, 138/115kV, transmission lines, large diameter potable water trunk transmission lines, wastewater treatment and discharge facilities, and telecommunication facilities.

In the past, he has served on several technical rules committees for the Washington State Department of Ecology dealing with diverse issues including the revision of SEPA administrative rules and the revision of the Washington Shoreline Management Act. As a county planning director in Oregon, Mr. Matthews oversaw the first periodic review of the county’s comprehensive plan and implementation ordinances to comply with Statewide planning goals He has also managed several large master and regional planning efforts in Washington, Oregon, Hawaii and Nevada. He holds a Bachelors’ degree in Land Use Planning and Environmental Studies.

SCOTT PETERS, Director, is a Registered Landscape Architect and serves as Director and Senior Landscape Architect for the Landscape Architecture Group at EPG. He specializes in the planning, design, and construction administration of park, recreation, and trail projects that are creative, responsive to client and user needs, and in character with their setting. Over the past 17 years of his training and experience, Mr. Peters has served as project principal, project manager, and lead designer for numerous large-scale and multi-disciplinary projects, including the planning, design, and development of regional, community, and neighborhood parks, open spaces, and trail systems. Integration of the public into the planning and design process has been a key component of his project success.

Mr. Peters currently serves on the Envision Utah: Blueprint Jordan River Recreation/Tourism Steering Committee. Specific projects for which he served as either the Principal or Project Manager include Valley Forward Association’s Pedestrian Freeway, the Tempe Western Canal Multi-Use Path, Red Gap Ranch’s Parks and Trails Master Plan, Sun Valley South’s Parks and Trails Master Plan, the Toltec Regional Trail System Master Plan, the Queen Creek Five Parks Master Plan, the Chandler Paseo Master Plan and Design Guidelines, the Western Canal Multi-Use Path, and the San Tan Mountain Regional Park Master Plan and Environmental Assessment, among others. His many return clients attest to his project success, organizational skills, and leadership in coordinating with them, stakeholders, the public, consultants, and EPG’s interdisciplinary specialists; his commitment to achieving project schedule and budget requirements; and his dedication to planning and design excellence. Mr. Peters has a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Utah State University with a minor in Spanish.

E. LINWOOD SMITH, PhD, Director of the Tucson Office and Biological Resources has more than 34 years of experience in the consulting industry. Dr. Smith's formal training is in terrestrial vertebrate ecology. As Director of EPG’s Tucson office, he manages the biological services group. The group of professional biologists have an average of 15 years of experience.

Dr. Smith's experience with siting and permitting projects is extensive. Involvement in these projects has included contributions to the preparation of permitting documents, sensitive species clearance studies, and long-term studies of impacts to individual species. Over the course of his career he has worked on many of the major transmission line systems that have been permitted in the Southwest. Dr. Smith has also provided expert testimony to the Arizona State Siting Committee, recently testified in Federal District Court in a BLM trespass case, and provided testimony to the "God Squad" on Northern Spotted Owls in federal court in Portland, Oregon.

Prior to joining EPG, Dr. Smith served as the Director of the Biological Resources Study Group for Dames & Moore's Intermountain Region. He also served as Dames & Moore's, and later URS Corporation's, managing principal-in-charge of Tucson operations. Earlier, he founded and managed E. Linwood Smith & Associates, a small, successful biological consulting firm in Tucson, Arizona, where he regularly served as a consultant for numerous studies in the West, Southwest, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Utah, Alaska, and Guam. Dr. Smith has a doctorate in Zoology.

SCOTT WOODS, Director of Information Technologies, has over 20 years of Geographic Information Systems and Information Technology experience with both private clients and local governmental agencies. Mr. Woods has provided GIS and IT related services on over 120 environmental projects throughout the western United States including Alaska and Hawaii. He is proficient in the design, implementation, and management of interdisciplinary planning, engineering, and environmental projects using the full suite of ESRI GIS database, mapping, analysis, and application and internet development software. Other areas of expertise include systems and network administration, internet development, GPS, and database management.

Mr. Woods’ current duties include overseeing all GIS/IT activities firm-wide: network and systems administration, hardware and software evaluation and procurement; GIS/IT project development, design, implementation, and management. Mr. Woods is active in local, state, and national GIS communities and is a current member of AGIC, UGIC, and ASPRS. Mr. Woods has a Bachelor’s degree in Geography with an emphasis in Environmental Studies and GIS.

Prior to joining EPG, Mr. Woods was a GIS Manager for Dames & Moore and International Engineering Company. Mr. Woods served as the GIS manager for Environmental Services Group responsible for managing all aspects of GIS development associated with utility and energy related projects. Prior to Dames & Moore Mr. Woods also worked as a GIS specialist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department Research Division and the Arizona State Land Department.