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.

TIM BAUMANN, Director of Biological Services for the Intermountain Region, began his career as a field biologist in Colorado and Wyoming with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Park Service, and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. In 1980, he joined the Denver office of Camp Dresser and McKee (CDM) as a Senior Scientist and Project Manager, initially focusing on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and Clean Water Act permitting and compliance issues for mining, energy, and water resource clients. He also served as a Principal Scientist and Program Manager at CDM in Denver and Helena, Montana for Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act/Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act driven hazardous waste remediation projects at National Priorities List sites throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. He joined Roux Associates in 1991 to develop a Denver office for the firm that provided environmental consulting services to a national client base.

In 1994, Tim established Western Consulting Group to provide environmental permitting, compliance, and management services to clients in the transportation, mining, energy, utility, water resource, and land development industries. For the past 15 years, his work has focused on siting and permitting greenfield energy projects in 15 states throughout the country. Tim has contributed to 10 NEPA documents for energy, mining, and transportation projects in coordination with the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Energy, and Federal Highway Administration as lead agencies. He has conducted threatened and endangered species field investigations, prepared biological assessments, biological evaluations, and has assisted applicants and federal agencies in Section 7 ESA consultation in six different USFWS regions. He has also directed wetland delineation, wetland mitigation planning and implementation, and permitting efforts for projects in 11 different US Army Corps of Engineers districts.

Tim is a Certified Wildlife Biologist and holds a Master of Science degree in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Miami.