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MAUREEN O’SHEA-STONE Project Manager/Planner/
Senior Plant Ecologist
Key Expertise
 NEPA: Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and Environmental
Assessments (EA)
 BLM Resource Management Plans (RMP)
 Oil and Gas Project Permitting and Monitoring;
 Renewable Energy Facilities Issues and Permitting
 Terrestrial Plant Ecology
 Vegetation Surveys and Assessment
 Threatened or Endangered Species Surveys
 Wetland Delineations, Permitting, and Mitigation Design and Monitoring
 Habitat Reclamation and Restoration, Planning, and Monitoring
 Noxious Weed Management Mapping, Planning, and Monitoring
 Due Diligence Review for Equator Principles/International Finance
Corporation Standards Compliance
 Xeric and Native Plant Landscape Design
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Ms. O’Shea-Stone has worked as a professional ecologist for more than 30
years and is currently technical operations manager of E & E’s Boulder office.
Her projects occur at the intersection of ecological knowledge, planning, and
regulatory compliance. These include natural resource management, county or
local government planning, land and energy development, as well as mine
reclamation and closure, and hazardous waste site remediation. Project
locations have included sites at the urban-wildland interface as well as prairie,
desert, alpine, montane, riparian, and coastal forest ecosystems in Colorado,
New Mexico, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, California,
Nevada, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, and Panama.
Ms. O’Shea-Stone’s technical experience includes project management for
environmental and biological inventories, assessments, and impact analyses;
natural resource management plans; and environmental and ecological
permitting, including National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and Environmental Assessments
(EA). She manages technical personnel and conducts field studies, data
analysis, and report writing in support of renewable and conventional energy
development projects, municipal and county master plans, T&E species
surveys and Section 7 consultation, revegetation design; wetland delineation
and 404 permitting; noxious weed mapping and Integrated Weed Management plans; mine and disturbed lands
reclamation; open space inventories and management plans; ecological risk assessments; Remedial
Investigations/Feasibility Studies (RI/FS); and native and xeric landscape design.
Ms. O’Shea-Stone has 30 years
of experience in NEPA; natural
resource planning; terrestrial
plant ecology – including
threatened or endangered
species surveys; vegetation
surveys and assessment; and
natural resource monitoring.
EDUCATION
M.A., Environmental,
Population, and
Organismic Biology,
University of Colorado,
Boulder, 1988
B.A., Environmental,
Population, and
Organismic Biology,
University of Colorado,
Boulder, 1982
CERTIFICATION
Ute ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes
diluvialis) survey
certification, since 2001
HAZWOPER 40-hour Training
and Annual Refresher,
2013
H2
S Awareness Training, 2011
SafeLand Training, 2011

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PROJECT EXPERIENCE
NEPA—EIS and EA
Ms. O’Shea-Stone is a seasoned NEPA practitioner; having participated in five large EIS projects (Project
Manager for three) and ten EAs (PM for nine) for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Forest Service,
National Park Service, and Bureau of Reclamation. These projects support direct agency actions and Land Use
Planning as well as third-party contractor for renewable energy, mining, oil and gas, and research facility projects.
Example projects include:
 Ms. O’Shea-Stone is serving as the project manager for the Roan Plateau Resource Management Plan
Amendment (RMPA)/Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the BLM Colorado River
Valley Field Office, Colorado.
 Project manager for development of a Bureau of Reclamation Resource Management Plan and EA for Pueblo
Lake State Park, Colorado.
 Deputy Project Manager for the Greater Crossbow oil and gas development EA, Wyoming.
 Project Manager and technical author for a third-party EA for the Lilli Field natural gas infrastructure
improvement project, on the Pawnee National Grassland. The Proposed Action included improving Forest
Service roads and installation of a natural gas pipeline and a natural gas liquids pipeline.
 Project Manager for a third-party EA for campus infrastructure improvements to a research facility and
National Historic District in Grand Teton National Park, run by the University of Wyoming.
 Project Manager and a lead technical author for a third-party EA on a natural gas development Master
Development Plan in western Colorado for two agency co-leads; BLM and US Forest Service. Ms. O’Shea-
Stone also managed all biological clearances and permitting for an associated pipeline and three additional
drilling pads.
 Project manager and technical author for a BLM EA to conduct safety hazards abatement at the United
Comstock Merger Mill at American Flat in Storey County, Nevada. This action considers public safety
hazards posed by abandoned mill buildings with the social and historic values these buildings also represent.
 Project Manager and technical author for a project providing a full-range of technical services to conduct site-
specific environmental assessments in support of construction and operations of the National Ecological
Observatory Network (NEON), funded by the National Science Foundation. In this role she recently managed
a third-party EA for the National Park Service for a NEON research structure in Rocky Mountain National
Park, Colorado; EA for a NEON facility at Onaqui, in the BLM Salt Lake City Field Office; field surveys and
compilation of Resource Reports, Biological Evaluation (BE), and Biological Assessment (BA) to support a
Categorical Exclusion for construction of research facilities in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest and
Pawnee National Grassland.
 Task Manager for the Happy Jack Wind Facility (Western Area Power Administration) EA, Cheyenne,
Wyoming.
BLM Resource Management Plans
Ms. O’Shea-Stone served as Project Manager as well as lead technical author for Resource Management Plan
Amendments (RMPA) Amendments/Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for the BLM:
 Roan Plateau RMPA/SEIS (Colorado River Valley Field Office);
 Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (San Juan Public Lands);
 Roan Plateau (Glenwood Springs Field Office);

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 Technical author for the Fortification Creek RMPA/EA (Buffalo Field Office) in central Wyoming and the
Jarbidge Field Office RMPA/EIS in southern Idaho.
Threatened and Endangered/Sensitive Species
Ms. O’Shea-Stone has been involved in numerous Threatened and Endangered (T&E) and sensitive species
surveys as well as habitat assessment, Biological Assessments (BA), and Biological Evaluations (BE). In
addition, she has participated in habitat mitigation planning, plan implementation, and monitoring. Project
examples include:
 Wrote the Forest Service BE/BA for plant species for an EA for the Lilli Field natural gas infrastructure
improvement project, on the Pawnee National Grassland.
 Wrote the Forest Service BE/BA for plant species for an EA for NEON research facilities to be located on the
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest and Pawnee National Grassland.
 Managed and supervised special status plant species surveys along a 16-mile long pipeline ROW in Garfield
County, Colorado. Species of interest included Harrington’s penstemon, Colorado hookless cactus, Ute
ladies’-tresses orchid, and DeBeque milkvetch and phacelia.
 Managed and supervised avian and plant species surveys stipulated in the Biological Opinion (BO) for a US
Forest Service transportation management plan in the Rampart range, central Colorado. Species included the
Mexican spotted owl, northern leopard frog, goshawk, peregrine falcon, lesser lady’s-slipper, rock cinquefoil,
and Selkirk violet.
 Managed and supervised T&E plant species surveys in western Colorado for NEPA site analysis of natural
gas development. Species included DeBeque milkvetch and phacelia, Colorado hookless cactus, and adobe
thistle.
 Managed prairie dog colony mapping and assessment study for the Cities of Boulder and Fort Collins using
remote sensing analysis of custom-acquired satellite imagery, ground-truthed in the field, as well as standard
GPS surveys and vegetation and habitat assessment of colony polygons. Linked database deliverables
contained coordinated geospatial and ecological condition data.
 T&E/sensitive species surveys and clearances for RI/FS sampling activities at the Anvil Points Facility of the
former Naval Oil Shale Reserve #3 for the BLM.
 Conducted a T & E plant species survey and vegetation assessment of Colorado Spring Utilities site in
support of NEPA compliance requirements.
 Conducted surveys for Ute ladies'-tresses orchid in Wyoming and several Colorado Front Range locations.
 Characterization of riparian habitat along the Colorado Front Range in support of two extensive trapping
studies of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse habitat in Colorado.
 Characterized and monitored habitat conditions for the first mitigation area bank of Preble's meadow jumping
mouse
 Characterization of riparian habitat along the Colorado Front Range in support of two extensive trapping
studies of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse.
 Collaborated in design of Preble's meadow jumping mouse habitat mitigation plan for residential development
along Cherry Creek, near Parker, Colorado. Currently involved in implementation and monitoring of this, and
a second habitat mitigation site in the same vicinity.
 Conducted a vegetation community survey and classification and co-authored a mitigation plan for a City of
Colorado Springs trail expansion in Preble's meadow jumping mouse habitat.
 Ms. O’Shea-Stone participated in T&E plant species surveys on mine and mill sites in the central Colorado
Rocky Mountains and montane ranch property on the Western Slope. Species included Colorado butterfly
plant, Harrington's penstemon, purple lady's-slipper orchid, Porter feathergrass, and Leadville milkvetch.

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Renewable Energy and Transmission Line Permitting and Regulation Compliance
Ms. O’Shea-Stone has direct experience with ecological issues, local and Federal permitting, and the NEPA
process as they pertain to wind energy production facilities and associated transmission lines.
 Project Manager for all natural resource surveys and permitting support for a 24,000 acre wind project and
associated 30-mile transmission line in south-central Colorado. This will include special use permit, zoning
variance, and 1041 permit applications.
 Project Manager for Critical Issues Analyses, BLM ROW Application/Plans-of-Development, resource
inventories and surveys, and all agency communications for two wind production sites in south-central
Wyoming.
 Project Manager for ecological site assessments for a potential wind project in northeastern Colorado.
 Project Manager for local technical assessment to support an environmental and land use constraints and
permitting analysis for potential wind projects sites near Cheyenne and Casper, Wyoming.
 Field assessment and Environmental Assessment (EA) for a potential 30MW wind production facility in
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Floristic Surveys, Mapping, and Vegetation Management Plans
Ms. O'Shea-Stone has performed numerous floristic surveys and developed management plans for local, state, and
federal clients as well as participated in multi-disciplinary design teams for property, master plans and on-going
management. Example projects include:
 Conducted baseline vegetation community characterization and mapping for proposed potash mine site in
southeastern New Mexico.
 Conducted a major vegetation mapping effort for City of Boulder Parks and Open Space (Boulder, Colorado)
following the U.S National Vegetation Classification system methodology. Habitat included vegetation
alliances of foothills grasslands and shrublands as well as wetland/riparian areas, and montane savannah.
Assisted in developing new alliance definitions for the prairie/montane ecotone included in the study area.
 Designed a revegetation plan for the Sundance Resort, Utah based upon existing site conditions and native
vegetation.
 Yearlong vegetation surveys, noxious weed mapping, and vegetation management plans in support of site
management and NEPA processes for two National Renewable Energy Laboratory sites along the Colorado
Front Range. These plans were based on IWM concepts and include recommended site-specific seed mixes
and reclamation techniques.
 Noxious weed surveys, mapping, and a risk assessment for proposed management activities in the Winiger
Ridge Ecosystem Management Project, Boulder Ranger District, Arapaho/Roosevelt National Forest.
 Performed vegetation community survey, mapping, and a noxious weed survey at Mueller State Park, Divide,
Colorado. Final products of this work consisted of a vegetation database and an IWM-based weed
management plan for the site.
 Conducted noxious weed mapping on a Federal research facility site (NCAR). The final product of this
project consisted of a site-wide weed management plan. This plan is based on Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) concepts and includes a recommended site-specific seed mix.
 Inventoried vegetation resources for City of Boulder Transportation Right of Ways, created a database to hold
inventory data, and collaborated on new landscape guidelines for City medians and road verges using a palette
of native and other xeric plant species to reduce water use and create an appropriate landscape.

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Ecological Assessment and Monitoring
Ms. O'Shea-Stone's ecological assessment and monitoring experience extends throughout the western United
States. Representative projects include:
 Conducted a multi-year monitoring program to assess the success of Preble's meadow jumping mouse habitat
mitigation plan at the Northgate complex and Pinery West development in El Paso County, Colorado.
 Rapid assessment of vegetation ecological resources for Boulder County Parks and Open Space properties.
 Managed a baseline project to coordinate noxious weed mapping and management on public and private lands
in the 3,500-acre Estes Valley, Colorado. The final report that included Integrated Weed Management (IWM)
recommendations and was distributed it to over 20 public land management entities and private property
owners.
Wetland Delineations/404 Permitting
Sample projects are listed below:
 Conducted numerous wetland delineations and supported Nationwide and Individual 404 permits for
residential development sites in Boulder, Douglas, and El Paso Counties.
 Wetland survey and delineation of two large proposed gravel mine sites in Boulder County.
 Identified, delineated classified, and mapped approximately 500 acres of wetlands on a large, high altitude
mine in central Colorado.
 Identified and delineated wetlands at several Colorado Department of Transportation structure sites in south
central Colorado.
 Identified and delineated wetland areas within a gravel mine site near Leadville, Colorado.
Reclamation Plans, Ecological Studies for Mine RI/F S and Risk Assessments
Maureen O'Shea-Stone has participated in numerous ecological studies in support of various types of mining
operations and associated risk assessment activities. Examples include:
 Prepared a baseline data sampling and analysis plan for proposed in-situ uranium mine in western New
Mexico. This included addressing regulatory issues of the Navajo Nation, Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), and New
Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department (NMEMNRD).
 Coordinated field crews collecting invertebrates, soils, and plant tissue in support of an ecological risk
assessment of an abandoned mine property in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
 Designed revegetation plans for US Forest Service (USFS) remediation of the Sydney Tunnel and Dibbans
Mill sites in Clear Creek County, Colorado and the Fairday Mine in Boulder County, Colorado. The design
for these abandoned mine sites included revegetation of waste rock, areas remediated for hazardous materials,
and otherwise disturbed soils. The designs opened and protected natural drainageways and associated
wetlands, used native plant species seed mixes, locally available organic amendments and barrow soils, and
native rock for slope stabilization terraces.
 Designed and conducted plant tissue sampling, and characterized existing vegetation resources, for the
Captain Jack Mine RI/FS near Ward, Colorado.
 Designed and oversaw implementation of the revegetation component for a VCUP (Voluntary Cleanup Plan)
on an historic mine near Jamestown, Colorado. This includes testing soil amendments in on-site test plots to
determine the most effective subsoil/compost treatment for successful revegetation of acidic mine waste rock.
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with the goal of establishing a diverse, self-sustaining native plant community that will minimize soil loss on
the reclaimed surfaces, minimize transport of eroded soil into local creeks, support wildlife use, and improve
the visual quality of the site.
 Assisted in a waters of the U.S. study of potential mine expansion site in southern New Mexico. Identified
and mapped all jurisdictional waters and wetlands within several large watersheds.
 Prepared a baseline data sampling and analysis plan for proposed in-situ uranium mine in western New
Mexico. This included addressing regulatory issues of the Navajo Nation, Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), and New
Mexico Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department (NMEMNRD).
 Designed and performed annual reclamation monitoring for active coal mines in eastern Wyoming and
Montana. This involved vegetation sampling at reclaimed and reference areas, data analysis, and preparation
of final report presented to state agencies.
 Participated in an ecological risk assessment of a CERCLA site in a historical mine site in western Colorado.
Specifically, she coordinated the writing of the sampling and analysis plan and field crews during plant
ecology data and tissue collection; created a list of plant species and collected voucher specimens; and
managed and analyzed data files and collaborated on final report.
 Collaborated on a site-wide environmental impact statement for Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site
(RFETS) clean-up alternatives. Tasks involved compiling and analyzing existing ecological data and writing
the final analysis of the impacts to ecological resources at the site.
 Performed data management and analysis and report writing in support of an ecological risk assessment for
RFETS operable units. Developed quality assurance protocols and archiving procedures and coordinated the
clerical and professional staff.
 Collected ecological data and plant tissue samples in support of an ecological risk assessment of a uranium
mill site in central Colorado.
Biodiversity Standards Compliance—International Mining
Ms. O’Shea-Stone conducts independent due diligence reviews of international biodiversity standards
compliance, as a team member of a leading international mining engineering company specializing in such
reviews at mine sites. She assesses the project’s demonstration of adherence to the Equator Principals and
International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standard on Biodiversity (Performance Standard 6) for
prospective lenders. These projects involve reviewing Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA),
numerous other documents, and multiple site visits. These reviews asses the project proponent’s approach to
biodiversity conservation, such as habitat conservation, endangered plants and animals listed by the country of the
project and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and numerous other issues addressed in the
IFC guidance.
Natural Resource Damages
Ms. O’Shea-Stone recently provided ecological expertise to a consulting team tasked with compiling a
Restoration Plan of projects to address Natural Resource Damages at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colorado.
Master Plans
Ms. O’Shea-Stone collaborated on Master Plans for municipal sites in Breckenridge, Broomfield, Frisco,
Thornton, Lakewood, Longmont, and Arvada, Colorado. She provided ecological inventory and assessments as
well as management recommendations. She also reviewed and analyzed potential alternatives in terms of
ecological resources.

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Ms. O’Shea-Stone provided upland vegetation and weed management expertise to a multi-disciplinary team
assembled to inventory resources and make master plan recommendations for a 100-acre area managed by the
Boulder County Parks and Open Space Department. She also assisted in the preparation of a Wildlife
Management Plan for the City of Longmont, Colorado.
Research
Ms. O'Shea-Stone has an extensive research background, having conducted applied ecological studies for the
private sector and academic research as a Research Assistant for the Universities of British Columbia and
Colorado. Her more recent projects include:
 Collaborated on design of a work plan and sampling and analysis plan to sample home garden produce from
household gardens in central Alaska with suspected well contamination by sulfolane.
 Collaborated in a quantitative floristic study of mixed-grass prairie at the Little Bighorn National Monument,
Montana. This project is funded by the National Park Service as part of a long-term study of prairie vegetation
dynamics. Ms. O’Shea-Stone conducted the first survey of this area 15 years ago, as part of a post-fire
investigation.
 A multi-year study to quantify riparian plant community responses to experimental habitat restoration
techniques for Preble’s meadow jumping mouse habitat restoration.
 A three-year research project investigating the efficacy of integrating fire and herbicide applications for
diffuse knapweed (Acosta diffusa) management and native grassland community maintenance.
 Designed, implemented, and managed a research project studying the efficacy of integrated weed
management techniques on leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) in a high altitude meadow for the United States
Forest Service.

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EMPLOYMENT:
Walsh Environmental/E & E, 2001 to present
Plantae Consulting Services, 1996-2001
The S.M. Stoller Corporation, 1993-1996
Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, 1988-1993
Keammerer Ecological Consultants, 1984-1986
Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, 1982-1988
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Botany BC
Colorado Native Plant Society
Colorado Riparian Association
Colorado Weed Management Association
High Altitude Revegetation Workshop