Welcome to Life Science!

The mission of Life Science! is to improve the environment and wildlife by delivering to clients the highest quality of environmental services in the areas of wildlife habitat protection, restoration of degraded ecosystems, and better management of natural resources.

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South Sacramento County Habitat Conservation Plan
Life Science! will assist Sacramento County in preparing an Environmental Impact Report/Statement for the South Sacramento County Habitat Conservation Plan. This plan will help to protect some forty-one special status species an covers 350,000 acres—almost 550 square miles—of land. In order to meet the challenges in preparing such a comprehensive strategy, Life Science! has pulled a team of experts to analyze the impacts of this project.

Bair Island
The final design for the Bair Island Restoration Project is completed, and the actual work is well underway. Bair Island is actually 2,600 acres of marsh; it’s part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Redwood City, California. On Inner Bair Island, the restoration project requires that 1.5 million cubic yards of clean fill to be imported. Construction began last July; by the end of the year 133,000 cubic yards had been imported. In addition, the levee needed to bring in dredged fill material was completed. As a result, we are set to receive 322,000 cubic yards of material dredged from the Port of Redwood City Shipping Channel.

This complex plan represents an effective private-public partnership. The Port of Redwood City has found an environmentally sound way to place its dredgings, and the Army Corps of Engineers has been praised for treating dredged materials as a valuable commodity instead of environmental waste. And the environment and the Fish and Wildlife Service—the agency charged with protecting Bair Island—are also benefitting from the restoration project. The California Wildlife Foundation is providing contract oversite and managment for the project.

The project is unusual in that it’s being completed at no cost to taxpayers. The plan was initially budgeted to cost eight to nine million dollars. Instead, Life Science! and the Foundation negotiated with another private company, DirtMarket, to have the latter company pay to place clean fill at the site. As a result, the creative approach has reduced the cost to government agencies from eight to nine million dollars to zero.

The Bair Island Restoration Project, scheduled for completion in 2011, will be used as a model for other environmental programs.

Life Science! Inc.
2444 Harrington
Oakland, CA 94601
phone: (510) 261-5667