KRIS DOBSCHUETZ, MA, RPA, manages special projects with 15 years of experience. She holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma, specializing in southwestern archaeology. Her areas of expertise include ceramic analysis, social interaction, ethnicity, and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Ms. Dobschuetz has conducted archaeological research within Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, Oregon, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin. She has conducted pedestrian surveys, archaeological testing, and data recovery projects for a variety of local, state, and federal agencies, as well as major utilities for private developers and Native American tribes.

Ms. Dobschuetz has been principal investigator on more than 150 projects ranging from small 1-acre cell tower surveys to a multi-state million dollar pipeline project. Technical documents that she has drafted, edited, and reviewed include cultural resource sections for Section 7C Applications (Resource Report No. 4), Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Certificates of Environmental Compatibility, Programmatic Agreements, and Memorandums of Agreements. In addition, Ms. Dobschuetz has also prepared proposals, Historic Property Inventory Plans, Historic Property Treatment Plans, monitoring reports, and numerous technical documents.

In addition to the technical aspects of senior project management, Ms. Dobschuetz has experience working with numerous federal agency personnel such as the BLM, USFS, BIA, COE, FERC, FCC, USDA, and BOR, with the most experience associated with BLM personnel. Ms. Dobschuetz has worked with BLM personnel in offices in Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. As part of her non-profit research organization, Ms. Dobschuetz has coordinated closely with the Safford BLM Field Office in southeastern Arizona. As part of this collaboration, she has completed a cultural resource study for their Aravaipa Ecosystem Management Plan and has provided an updated records and literature review for all lands under their jurisdiction for updating the Safford BLM Resource Management Plan.

JOE DONALDSON, Project Manager, is a Senior Environmental Planner and Landscape Architect in EPG’s Salt Lake City office. He is a Registered Landscape Architect with over 25 years of experience preparing complex, interdisciplinary projects that balance natural resource protection with public use requirements for recreation, access, and interpretation. Mr. Donaldson has served as principal-in-charge, project manager, landscape architect of record, or technical team member for a variety of projects involving trail planning and design, recreation master planning, and public use and access for environmentally sensitive areas; management plans, designs, and studies for recreation, open space, wildlife refuge, and environmental education projects; habitat restoration and revegetation studies and plans; visual assessment studies for water resources, energy facilities, utilities, roadway, and watershed projects; facilitation and consensus-building for diverse stakeholders and agencies; and environmental compliance and permitting to meet federal, state, and local regulations and requirements. Public involvement, agency coordination, and facilitation have been important components of many of Mr. Donaldson’s projects. He has extensive experience planning and facilitating stakeholder meetings involving diverse agency and public interests; working with technical and citizen advisory groups; and planning and leading workshops, open houses, planning and design charettes, and agency consensus-building efforts as key components of projects. Also, Mr. Donaldson has extensive experience managing diverse projects requiring the application of GIS technology for regional and community-scale analysis and planning.

Mr. Donaldson currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District’s Conservation Garden Foundation, the American Council of Engineering Companies’ Utah Chapter Sustainability Committee, and the Funding and Governance Sub-committee of the Jordan River Interim Planning Committee to establish the 50-mile-long Jordan River Greenway in the Salt Lake Valley. He holds a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Utah State University and a Bachelor of Arts in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley.

AMANDA O'CONNOR, Senior Project Manager, has 12 years experience in environmental planning, BLM right-of-way grants, NEPA compliance, and agency coordination. She has managed planning and NEPA projects for the past 8 years. Currently, Ms. O’Connor has served as deputy project manager and project liaison to Federal agencies involved in preparation of the EIS for PacifiCorp’s Energy Gateway South Transmission Project in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. Before joining EPG in September 2008, she was project manager for URS Corporations support (as subcontractor to Tetra Tech) of preparation of the EIS for Idaho Power and Rocky Mountain Power’s Energy Gateway West transmission project in Wyoming and Idaho. Ms. Connor also facilitated coordination between several project Proponents and federal agencies for initiating the application process for obtaining right-of-way grants for energy projects. She has a master degree in Conservation Studies.

MIKE PARK, Senior Landscape Architect, has helped to master plan, design, and oversee construction administration for more than 100 multi-disciplined projects in his 25-plus year career in landscape architecture. Primarily, his experience has focused on recreational facility planning and design for federal, county, and municipal open space and park projects; and urban design and construction documentation for public works, transportation, commercial, and office projects.

Mr. Park began his career in the construction industry and was exposed to many different trades by several journeymen, including building foundations and structures, masonry, rough and finish carpentry, electrical, roofing, site grading and construction, and landscape installation. This exposure to construction became the foundation for his interest in the technical side of landscape architecture and the preparation of construction documents and specifications. Mr. Park realized the study of construction practices would provide the foundation necessary to mature as a landscape architect. This foundation led to a lifelong interest in developing consistent and “tight” project documents.

Since moving to the Phoenix area in 1986, he has worked for two international multi-discipline engineering firms and two large local architecture firms before joining EPG in 2007. This full-breadth of multi-discipline experience in design services has given him the professional background to be the prime consultant’s project manager, overseeing all aspects of project management as well as the many subconsulting disciplines required for each project.

At EPG, Mr. Park has been engaged in managing, planning, designing, and implementing over 20 projects across the desert Southwest, reflecting a range of projects for municipal, agency, and private clients. Although well-versed in design production, his current projects require a broad range of experience from programming and conceptual design to technical knowledge.

MARC SCHWARTZ'S area of expertise includes landscape planning, visual resource assessment, restoration planning and implementation, NEPA, and the visual simulation process. Mr. Schwartz has worked throughout the Southwest, including the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Montana, and Utah and has coordinated with various federal and state agencies, including the BLM (Las Vegas, Kingman, Phoenix, and Salt Lake field offices), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service, and others. Additionally, Mr. Schwartz directs the preparation and implementation of restoration plans for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), BLM, and USFS that are now used as templates for various agencies for similar projects.

Mr. Schwartz has managed and served as principal resource investigator on over 50 visual resource studies throughout the southwestern United States for inclusion in a variety of environmental permitting documents, including, but not limited to, environmental impact statements (EISs), environmental assessments (EAs), and FERC resource reports. Representative visual projects include the Southwest Las Vegas Valley Transmission Project, Transwestern Phoenix Lateral Pipeline Project, Sasabe Pipeline Project, and El Dorado Extention Project. Mr. Schwartz also directs the preparation of transmission line and substation visual simulations on all of EPG’s projects. In these efforts, he focuses on the need for accuracy and defensibility in preparing all simulations. Marc Schwartz holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Forestry/Ecological Planning from Northern Arizona University and has completed the coursework required for a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Arizona.

STEVEN SHELLEY, PhD, RPA, Cultural Resources Manager, is a Registered Professional Archaeologist with more than 30 years of professional archaeological experience throughout North America. He has conducted cultural resource projects in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Montana, Washington, and Alaska, among other states. A list of clients includes federal agencies (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service), state agencies (Arizona Department of Transportation, Arizona State Lands), and numerous private clients. He has also worked in the public sector as an archaeologist for the U.S. Forest Service and in the Louisiana State Archaeologist’s office. In addition to cultural resource projects, Dr. Shelley has been involved in archaeological research projects in Colorado, Utah, Oregon, and Chihuahua, Mexico.

Dr. Shelley has a broad range of expertise, with publications in geoarchaeology, lithic analysis, faunal analysis, subsistence studies, and the application of GIS and geographic modeling to the study of settlement organization and resource procurement. In addition to his technical skills in archaeology, he has extensive managerial experience in running large, complex projects as an operations manager, a principal investigator, and a project director. He has managed numerous projects with budgets over $1 million, the largest being over $9 million in a single year. As a project manager with more than 20 years of experience, he has been responsible for maintaining project schedules involving numerous tasks, coordination of multidisciplinary project teams and subcontractors, and ensuring the quality and completeness of project deliverables.

CINDY SMITH, Project Manager, has 33 years of experience in environmental consulting; primarily in interdisciplinary environmental project management, resource inventory and impact assessment, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other document preparation, quality assurance, agency coordination, and public participation. Ms. Smith serves as Senior Project Manager for the Energy Gateway South project based out of our Salt Lake City office. She has a solid understanding of the intent and function of environmental planning and NEPA processes and has managed projects ranging in size, complexity, and controversy from regional, multi-state, multi-resource feasibility studies to area- or site-specific interdisciplinary analyses. Through her extensive experience, in addition to NEPA, Ms. Smith has a strong working knowledge of federal land planning guidelines and associated regulations, policies, and orders, as well as geographic information system (GIS) applications. She understands the issues and interests associated with a wide variety of projects. Throughout her career in environmental planning, Ms. Smith has incorporated effective agency coordination and participation in the NEPA process. She has designed and conducted numerous collaborative public participation programs tailored to the objectives and issues of each project. She has extensive experience working successfully with federal, tribal, state, and local agencies; special interest groups; technical advisory and work groups; and groups of various cultural affiliations (e.g., American Indian, Hispanic). Ms. Smith has been involved in the preparation of more than 25 major NEPA documents, more than half of which she has managed, and has worked in most of the western states including Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, California, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and Nevada.

HEATHER WEYMOUTH, Senior Archeologist, has served as project manager for cultural resource projects throughout the Intermountain West. She has conducted over 250 cultural resource survey, testing, monitoring, and data recovery projects in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado. She has 20 years of experience in cultural resource site documentation, evaluation, and report preparation. Projects have involved conducting Class I, Class II, and Class III cultural resource studies, architectural inventories, historic trails evaluations, NRHP recommendations, historic landscape studies, HABS/HAER documentation, preparation of cultural and paleontological resource sections for Environmental Assessments (EA), and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). She has worked with a broad range of clients including state (Certified Local Government, Division of Wildlife Resources, Division of Oil Gas and Mining, Department of Transportation, State Historic Preservation Office) and federal agencies (Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, Natural Resource Conservation Service, National Parks Service, United States Air Force), Native American Tribes, private interests, engineering, and environmental firms. Projects have included large scale development for 3-D geophysical, wind and hydroelectric energy, oil and natural gas fields/pipelines, mining operations, military training facilities, transportation corridors, recreational properties, and various reclamation and restoration projects. Her experience includes gathering data from various state and federal agencies including the National Archives in Washington D.C.; the Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and New Mexico State Historic Preservation Offices; BLM and Forest Service Offices in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado; Utah and New Mexico Bureau of Reclamation Archives; Utah State Archives; Utah Division of State History Library; Nevada State Museum; Nevada Historical Society; and the New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology.

DAVE WILSON, Registered Landscape Architect (Arizona No. 17701), serves as a senior project manager for the planning and landscape architecture groups at EPG, Inc. During his 29 years of professional experience throughout the southwestern United States, he has gained an appreciation of the unique design and environmental issues associated with the region. He possesses a diverse background encompassing recreation, urban design, landscape architecture, and planning design projects. Mr. Wilson has performed as project principal, project manager, or lead designer on numerous large-scale multi-disciplinary projects. His experience includes the direction of many multi-faceted projects, from the conceptual development through the completion of construction documents and construction administration. His successful direction of multi-disciplinary teams on significant award-winning projects attests to his listening, communication, and organizational skills. He has demonstrated a strong commitment to achieving the budgetary and scheduling requirements of a project while maintaining a high standard for design excellence and client loyalty. Mr. Wilson has a BLA from the University of Arizona.