GARLYN BERGDALE, President, has more than 31 years of consulting experience and is the president and CEO of EPG. He has participated in more than 100 projects, including studies in 19 states and Canada. For both public and private sector clients in the Southwest, he has served as principal-in-charge, project director, manager, advisor, coordinator, and technical expert and, as a result, is familiar with federal, state, and local data requirements, permitting/licensing requirements, and agency representatives.

Prior to establishing EPG, Mr. Bergdale was a partner and vice president with Dames & Moore and a vice president with Wirth Associates, where he earned widespread recognition by agencies, regulatory bodies, industry, and other planners as an authority in environmental planning and, in particular, infrastructure and facility siting studies. Speaking engagements and lectures by Mr. Bergdale have focused on site and route selection, public planning, environmental permitting, visual resources, and environmental justice.

Mr. Bergdale has testified on numerous projects before state regulatory agencies in Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas; and he has been a panel member for Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Administration Hearings. Mr. Bergdale holds a master's degree in landscape architecture and environmental planning and is a Registered Landscape Architect.

RANDY PALMER, Principal, is a founding partner, and senior project manager at EPG. He has more than 26 years of experience as an environmental planner, land use and visual resource specialist, and landscape architect. His expertise is in the oversight, management, and coordination of multidisciplinary environmental planning and design studies. This experience has been focused on the West, Midwest, and Canada, encompassing projects in 17 states including Alaska and Hawaii with a special emphasis on the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain regions.

Overall, Mr. Palmer has managed and/or coordinated the preparation of environmental and planning studies for more than 40 projects, ranging in size from small land development and infrastructure studies up to multi-state regional planning efforts. The locations of these projects range dramatically from highly developed urban sites to rural and agricultural study areas and remote wilderness settings. Through this experience, Mr. Palmer has gained an in-depth knowledge of regulatory and permitting conditions ranging from the application of federal standards (National Environmental Policy Act) to state and municipal requirements. In addition, he is thoroughly familiar with policies governing the BLM, Forest Service, National Park Service, BIA, and numerous Native American tribes. Prior to assisting in the establishment of EPG in 1999, Mr. Palmer served with Dames & Moore for 15 years. Mr. Palmer has a bachelor's degree in Outdoor Recreation/Landscape Architecture and a master's degree in Landscape Architecture.

PAUL TRENTER, Principal, is a founding partner and senior project manager at EPG. He has participated in more than 60 planning and permitting projects throughout the western United States. In this capacity, he has provided over 21 years of management and coordination of multidisciplinary environmental studies for major energy, utility, pipeline, infrastructure development, and transportation projects.

Mr. Trenter's expertise lies in planning and permitting projects that require federal, state, and local governmental approvals. He has completed numerous NEPA compliance projects, including EAs and EISs, and has provided expert testimony at state hearings on a number of occasions. He has completed federal, state, and local-based permitting studies in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

Mr. Trenter also serves as a visual resource, land use, and recreational advisor and directs data management activities including applications of computer technology for environmental planning, inventory, assessment, mitigation, design, monitoring, and visual simulations.

Mr. Trenter currently is responsible for the management of a number of multidisciplinary utility facility siting projects. Prior to joining EPG, Mr. Trenter was with Dames & Moore for 10 years, where he had similar responsibilities. He has a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture.

MICKEY SIEGEL, Principal, has over 26 years of experience as project manager, environmental planner, and land use specialist. His expertise is in impact analysis and documentation for major energy, utility, transportation, and natural resource development projects. He has worked extensively in Arizona, California, and throughout the West. In addition to preparing numerous applications for state certificates of environmental compatibility (CECs), he has on ten occasions provided expert testimony before the Arizona State Siting Committee.

Mr. Siegel's experience includes numerous NEPA compliance projects, including EAs and EISs. The majority of these projects have been third-party assignments directed by the BLM, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Forest Service, Department of Energy, Federal Highway Administration, or other lead agencies, and typically involve extensive coordination with federal, tribal, state, and municipal government agencies. Mr. Siegel also has provided third-party review services under BIA and BLM direction. As a principal and senior project manager at EPG, Mr. Siegel currently directs interdisciplinary teams for environmental impact and facility siting study projects. Prior to joining EPG during its formation in 1999, Mr. Siegel served with Dames & Moore for 14 years. Previously, he held other positions in consulting and local government. Mr. Siegel holds a master's degree in Urban Planning.

LAUREN WEINSTEIN, Principal, is a founding partner, and senior manager. She has more than 26 years of experience as a project manager and environmental planner and has managed numerous environmental planning and assessment projects including EAs, EISs, plan amendments, facility siting studies, recreation planning projects, and state applications, among others, for a variety of private and public sector clients. Ms. Weinstein also has provided expert testimony before state government on several occasions. Ms. Weinstein's experience includes management of environmental planning and assessment, resource, and recreation projects involving various agencies such as the BLM, Forest Service, BIA, Native American tribes, Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers, and Federal Highway Administration, along with other agencies. She has managed multidisciplinary projects in both rural and urban areas, statewide, and multi-state. Projects have ranged from infrastructure to natural resource planning. She has a bachelor's degree in Resource Planning and Management.

MICHAEL DOYLE, Principal, has more than 18 years of experience in environmental planning, landscape architecture, and recreation planning. He serves as the Director of the Intermountain and Northern Plains Region for EPG and has been with the firm since 2001. He has been the program manager, project director, senior project manager, and principal investigator for planning and permitting studies that involve urban and rural settings and nationally known recreation resources. He has worked with over 15 different utility companies throughout the central and western U.S. He has extensive experience with NEPA and CEQA studies, including EISs, EAs, and categorical exclusions. His range of professional experience includes utility infrastructure and siting studies, parks and trail systems, public art, transportation, and brownfield redevelopment master plans. He has worked with federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, BLM, BIA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Bureau of Reclamation.

Mr. Doyle has published articles on the integration of canals, utility infrastructure, and public art in magazines such as Landscape Architecture and SHADE. He has also presented at Edison Electric Institute conferences on utility siting and permitting. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design and  a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and is a Registered Landscape Architect.

BRANDIE POWERS, Principal, helped establish EPG in 1999 and serves as EPG’s business manager. In this role, she oversees the financial management, facilities, human resources, and overall business affairs for EPG. She has more than 18 years of experience in business administration, as well as experience in the legal and insurance industries. She has served as contract administrator for a variety of projects for both government and private industry, including National Grid Feasibility Studies, the El Paso Ruby Pipeline Project, and the Great Basin Transmission Southwest Intertie Project.