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A company’s energy, vision, effectiveness, & integrity are embodied in its people.

Careers

About Our Staff

At PCI Ecological, we have assembled a team of dedicated, passionate professionals who bring their diverse creativity and talents to every project. Our people choose to work here because they believe environmental stewardship requires both expertise and community engagement. We understand that environmental projects are not just plans drawn on a piece of paper—each project is about the land and the people who live and work there.

Our staff shares a commitment to creating sustainable solutions that honor both natural systems and human communities, strengthening our collective impact through collaborative approaches and diverse perspectives.

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Maggie Jensen
CEO, Landscape Architect

  • Maggie is a registered landscape architect. Her work focuses on designs that include human interaction with restored native landscapes. A licensed landscape architect, she has experience in design, preparation of construction documents, renderings and construction oversight. Her projects include rainwater catchment, parks, insectaries, natural winery landscapes, stream channels and ponds. Many of her projects incorporate environmental education elements and her area of expertise includes native plant palettes.

Mike Jensen
COO, Landscape Architect

  • Mike is a registered landscape architect. He has been designing, supervising, and building highly successful habitat enhancement projects in northern California since 1994. He has managed, designed and constructed or collaborated on over 100 watershed enhancement projects including: natural channel reconstruction; fish passage, dam removal and off-channel habitats for salmonids; biotechnical streambank stabilization; riparian and floodplain restoration; wetland mitigation; ranch and vineyard conservation; and natural habitat ponds and landscapes. Mike’s passion is construction and he tries to spend time every summer as one of PCI’s lead foreman or equipment operators. Mike is also the responsible managing officer for PCI’s general contractor’s license. When not at work, Mike enjoys spending time with his family, fly fishing, hunting and surfing.

ADMINISTRATIVE & Consulting staff

Abigail Sandberg
Landscape Designer

  • Abigail Sandberg is a Landscape Architect who joined PCI in 2023. Her diverse background in urban design, planning, and landscape architecture has taken her to a wide variety of sites, including academic campuses, a federal courthouse, private residences, the Norfolk Botanical Garden, museum grounds, and public spaces in cities like Healdsburg, Petaluma, and Santa Rosa. Abigail appreciates the dynamic challenges of landscape design and the opportunity to craft spaces that connect people to their environment. When not at work, she can be found sketching, embarking on adventures with her cat, Stella, or nurturing her ever-growing backyard garden.

Brian Bartell
Restoration Project Leader

  • Brian joined PCI at the start of 2023 as a Restoration Project Leader. Brian is a California Licensed Landscape Architect who started his restoration career in the Mid-Atlantic region in the late 1990’s. In 2012 he and his family migrated to California and quickly put down roots in the North Bay. Brian’s experience includes restoring creeks of all sizes, floodplains, seasonal wetlands, vernal pools, riparian areas, oak woodlands and special status species habitat, but his passion lies in restoring all manner of habitats for steelhead, salmon and trout. When he’s not working, he can usually be found on a bike or a pair of skis, with a fishing rod in his hands, fixing something around the house, or dragging his wife and kids on an “adventure.”

Carrie Lukacic
Principal Environmental Planner

  • Carrie is the PCI principal environmental planner at PCI. Her work focuses on CEQA/NEPA compliance and environmental permitting for a wide range of land management projects including watershed restoration projects, fish passage projects and both large- and small-infrastructure projects. Carrie specializes in the evaluation of environmental impacts in sensitive resource areas and is known for working with project designers, engineers, and resource agency staff to develop creative solutions to avoid impacts and enhance outcomes. She also serves as project manager for a number of PCI’s large projects.  When Carrie is not at work, she enjoys gardening, cooking, reading, and traveling.

Celia Chatham
Ecologist

  • Celia is an ecologist who has spent her career working in a range of habitats including the Sonoran desert, estuaries along the Gulf of California, Sierra coniferous forests, and Sonoma County oak woodlands, grasslands and riparian corridors. Her work at PCI includes plant monitoring at wildland habitat restoration sites, vegetation mapping, wetland delineation, nesting bird surveys, construction monitoring and assistance with aquatic species rescue and biological assessments. Celia brings an open and inquisitive mindset to her work; she is always excited to explore and discover landscapes to protect, enhance and restore.

Christopher Woltemade
Principal Hydrologist

  • Christopher Woltemade, PhD integrates hydrology, geomorphology, and spatial analysis in innovative ways that support watershed enhancement designs to benefit ecological systems and human needs. He has over 30 years of experience with stream and wetland restoration design, hydrologic modeling, geomorphic assessment, flood risk reduction, water quality management, salmonid recovery, and stormwater management. Christopher embraces a “one water” approach to comprehensive watershed management from headwaters to estuary. He thrives on data-driven scientific approaches to complex, multi-disciplinary problems that deliver innovative win-win solutions to clients and the broader public.

Claire Pavelka
Ecologist

  • Claire is an ecologist at PCI, who joined the team in 2021 after working on large-scale riparian restoration projects in the San Joaquin Valley of California. She brings her passion for restoration, native plant knowledge, and spatial analysis skills to the science team where she supports vegetative and wildlife monitoring, natural resource assessments, project implementation, and restoration planning. She is dedicated to protecting natural spaces, to benefit her local community of plants, wildlife, and people. When out of the office, you can often catch Claire on a hike with her dog Blue or experimenting with a new dessert recipe to share with her co-workers.

Connye Bucquoy
Financial Controller

  • Connye joined PCI in 2023 and she came to PCI with more than 25 years of experience in finance and accounting. Her goal is to provide timely and accurate information to the project managers so that they can make important decisions for the benefit of the company. She leads the PCI administrative group. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and her dogs as well as eating good food and enjoying the company of her friends.

Diana Grandi
Landscape Architect

  • Diana is a licensed landscape architect who has been a part of the design team at PCI since 2018. She is involved in a wide breadth of projects at PCI which include off-channel and in-stream salmonid habitat; fish passage; riparian, floodplain, and wetland restoration; biotechnical streambank stabilization; natural habitat ponds; erosion control; native species revegetation; habitat enhancement; rainwater catchment and water conservation; and public parks. Her passion lies in stream restoration and habitat enhancement, and she is actively pursuing and deepening her knowledge and experience in the environment restoration field. The skills she brings to her projects are, but not limited to, design, rendering, grading, native plant palettes and revegetation plans, and construction documentation. She is a Sonoma County native who grew up hiking through the redwoods and exploring the banks of the Russian River and its tributaries and feels at home on most project sites. When not working she is surfing, rock climbing, running, hiking, backpacking, cooking, reading and adventuring with her pup and partner. 

Ellen Cox
Assistant Engineer

  • Ellen is an assistant engineer who joined the PCI team in 2021. She graduated from Oregon State University where she majored in Civil Engineering and Sustainability. This allowed her to combine her interests in engineering with her passion for the natural environment. Her work at PCI includes building hydraulic models for rivers and watersheds, drafting, and design. Ellen spends her free time cycling, hiking, and camping.

Emily Mallard
Landscape Architect

  • Emily is a registered landscape architect on the design team at PCI. She participates in various projects, including regional park masterplans, feasibility studies, private estate and restoration planting plans. Working in the landscape design profession since 2004, Emily brings a diverse range of professional experience to her work that includes multi-family housing, water catchment and working with native plant palettes. In addition to landscape architecture, her multi-faceted background in art history, permaculture design and dance bring a unique perspective that integrates artistic elements with environmental considerations to create distinctive outdoor spaces. Outside of work, you can find her hiking, kayaking and spending time with her family and pup.

Erynn Rebol
Wildlife Biologist

  • Erynn has 10 years of experience in biological research. Her work has included assisting with, designing, and leading field research and working on habitat restoration projects. She has experience in settings ranging from California to the Arctic to the Amazon with numerous organisms including venomous snakes, small mammals, birds, and plants. Erynn brings a broad biological perspective to the science team at PCI where she assists with natural resource assessment, monitoring, and planning and implementation of habitat restoration projects. She is committed to protecting wildlife, land, and ecological processes so people can responsibly enjoy them for generations to come. On her off days, Erynn enjoys reading, creating, and exploring the outdoors with her rescued greyhound.

Fiona Connor
Assistant Engineer

  • Fiona joined PCI in 2023 as an Assistant Engineer. She recently completed her Master of Science degree in Environmental Systems: Environmental Resources Engineering at Cal Poly Humboldt. During graduate school, she was a student researcher at the Arcata Marsh Research Institute, where she performed regular water quality analyses and pond/wetland surveying and led algal growth pilot projects. Her interdisciplinary thesis focused on quantifying the effectiveness of microplastic removal in natural treatment systems and the impact that microplastics have on sedimentary bacteria and associated nitrogen cycling. She is excited to continue developing her problem-solving and ecological skills at PCI.

Gina Reid
Accountant

  • Gina joined PCI in 2015. She brings 15 years of accounting experience. Gina processes payroll, oversees accounts payable and accounts receivable tasks, works with project managers for monthly billing and a variety of other accounting responsibilities. Outside the accounting world, she enjoys spending time with her kids and friends, cooking, baking, and traveling. 

Harold Appleton
Forester

  • Harold is a Registered Professional Forester, Certified Professional Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Specialist. He has worked at PCI since 1988. His projects include design and oversight of wetland and riparian revegetation projects as well as erosion control projects, and the development of forestland stewardship plans.

Jasper Rice Herdt
Civil Engineer

  • Jasper is a civil engineer and a member of the design team. A Sonoma County native, Jasper joined PCI in 2005 after a high school internship. During his education and training as an engineer, he has worked as a journeyman construction worker and foreman, gaining practical experience and understanding of restoration projects. Jasper’s work includes surveying, construction cost estimates, construction planning and supervision, hydraulic modeling, engineering analysis, drafting and design. He has a passion for the outdoors and cooking.

Joan Schwan
Principal Vegetation Ecologist

  • Joan is PCI’s principal ecologist. She has worked on native plant research and restoration, and natural resource planning, since 1992. Her current focus is on assessment and planning for parks and preserves around the North Bay and North Coast, habitat restoration in settings from coastal wetlands to interior woodlands, and leading PCI’s team of ecologists and biologists. With practices like addressing climate change in revegetation designs, identifying processes that sustain biodiversity in preserves, and seeking ways to bring varied human interests and sensitive landscapes together to benefit both, Joan brings a broad ecological perspective and collaborative approach to her work.

John Hardy
Hydrologist

  • John is a hydrologist specializing in coastal and fluvial hydrology. He is experienced in data acquisition and has led multiple geomorphic, water quality, and biological monitoring projects. John has a background in riverine ecology and has provided field assistance in salmonid life-cycle monitoring and anadromous fisheries management studies. For his master’s thesis, he assessed the significance of physical habitat characteristics in describing macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in a small coastal stream to better understand the potential for riparian management to enhance lotic ecosystem function. In his spare time, John enjoys surfing, fishing, and camping.

Justin Bodell
Landscape Architect/Foreman

  • Justin is a registered landscape architect and QSD/P. He has worked in the environmental restoration field since 1998, when volunteering for AmeriCorps brought him to California from his home state of Pennsylvania. His experience is in designing and managing natural resource conservation projects such as in-stream salmonid habitat enhancement, erosion control, stormwater management, rainwater catchment, water conservation, biotechnical stream stabilization, wetland and riparian enhancement, streamflow enhancement, and native species revegetation. From his time working at the Sonoma Resource Conservation District and American Farmland Trust, Justin gained experience in conservation easement development, landowner and partner outreach, partnership development, community group and advisory committee presentations, and writing and managing grants for projects such as streamflow enhancement, fish habitat, rainwater catchment, and fire recovery.

Karen Jamgochian
Civil Engineer

  • Karen is a civil engineer on the design team, starting with PCI in 2021. She comes to us via the drinking water world with 5 years of experience, both on the regulatory side and the consulting engineering side. At PCI, she works on stream restoration, habitat enhancement, and fish passage projects. Her work includes project management tasks, field data collection, surveying, engineering analyses, 2D hydraulic modeling, drafting, and design. When not doing engineering, you can find her hiking, camping, backpacking, and traveling.

Kyle Johnson
Environmental Planner

  • Kyle joined the PCI team in 2023.  He brings with him experience in local planning, having worked in the Planning and Building Department in the Town of Yountville for two years where he gained experience in residential and commercial development, created online permit application processes, and developed skills in program management. A drone pilot and hobbyist as well as a GIS buff, he is known for taking on challenging roles and responsibilities to expand his skill set and knowledge base while working closely alongside subject matter experts to fully leverage available support and develop quality deliverables. When Kyle isn’t tackling a new assignment, you might find him at the pickle ball courts, playing his guitars, or spending time with his family.

Lauren Hammack
Principal Geomorphologist

  • Lauren specializes in stream restoration science and design – overseeing projects from initial envisioning all the way through implementation. During her 20-year career she has focused on applying her knowledge of geomorphology, ecology, hydrology, and hydraulics to develop geomorphically sound and effective restoration projects that respect complex stakeholder needs. Lauren blends technical skills and strong critical thinking with a solution-oriented attitude and interest in collaboration. Since joining PCI in 2003, her projects have ranged from watershed assessments and management plans to flood reduction feasibility studies to salmonid habitat enhancement design.

Lisa Segraves
Administrative Assistant

  • Lisa helps keep all aspects of PCI up and running, assisting the CEO and Financial Controller with various needs. She’s been a longtime Sonoma County resident who loves everything our county has to offer from hiking the beautiful trails to tasting the amazing wine and food created here. Her free time is spent with precious family, friends and her pup, Cleo.

Luke Walton
Principal Civil Engineer

  • Luke Walton, Principal Civil Engineer at PCI since 2007, brings a wealth of experience and a deep connection to the landscapes of Northern California. Growing up in the remote hills of coastal Sonoma County, Luke developed an early appreciation for natural ecosystems, which now informs his extensive work on stream restoration projects. His portfolio includes fish passage design, bank repair, habitat and Large Woody Debris enhancements, stream daylighting, dam removal, flood control and wetland design. Beyond ecological restoration, Lucas has also led the design of natural parks, trails, bridges, and parking lots for public access projects. His practical approach stems from hands-on experience as a construction foreman, equipment operator, and stream restoration specialist for various PCI projects. When he's not shaping landscapes, Lucas enjoys surfing and free diving along the rugged north coast or backpacking to explore remote streams with a fly rod in hand.

Paige Dulberg
Accounting Clerk

  • Paige joined PCI in 2024 as our Accounting Clerk. As a UC Davis graduate (Environmental Resource Science) with an aptitude for admin, Paige is thrilled to support PCI’s impactful projects through invoicing, billing, payables, and more. Away from her desk, you may see Paige birding in the Laguna de Santa Rosa, or checking out another local wine AVA.

Samantha Thomas
Environmental Planner

  • Samantha joined the PCI team in 2023 as a Senior Environmental Planner. Having started her planning career in Sonoma County, Samantha brings almost a decade of local and regional planning experience throughout Northern California within the non-profit, private, and public sectors. Her experience includes CEQA/NEPA compliance, environmental permitting, community planning, and public policy. She is known for working on a variety of multi-disciplinary projects – alongside engineers, geologists, biologists, architects, local tribes, city and county planning staff, and resource agency staff in order to find the best solution to the problem at hand in a manner that takes into account social and ecological impacts. When she doesn’t have her head buried in a planning document, you can usually find Samantha lifting weights in her home gym, walking/hiking with her malamute-husky mix (preferably on “cooler days”), and traveling.

Solange Guillaume
Landscape Architect

  • Solange Guillaume is a senior landscape architect at PCI whose fascination with the interface between urban and ecological design has led her to a wide variety of public and private projects. Prior to PCI, Solange was a landscape architect in the public sector in San Francisco, designing urban spaces with ecological restoration and public access at their core, including the Twin Peaks Promenade, Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Plan, Yosemite Creek, and McLaren Park. Her collaboration with community groups in San Francisco led to the development of the Sunset Boulevard Biodiversity Master Plan and established the construction of native plant pilot blocks on Sunset Boulevard. Solange has experience delivering projects from analysis and conceptual design through project construction, striving to bring designs that capture the elegance and nature of a space into being. Outside of work, Solange loves playing piano and singing in a local blues band and hiking and climbing with friends and family.

Steven Chatham
Founding Principal

  • Steven brings over 35 years of experience in taking projects from a conversation all the way through to healthy, on-the-ground habitat. In recent years, his work has ranged from leading restoration of a 40-acre quarry in the Sierra foothills to on-site supervision of redwood log placement in Napa Creek to providing principal level leadership on many of PCI’s design and environmental compliance projects. He is adept at resolving complex permitting and constructibility issues and practiced at organizing effective teams. In his downtime, Steven likes to take long walks in the Willow Creek watershed and can always be found working on his property.

Field Crew

Bob Schneider
Vegetation Specialist

  • Bob brings 10 years of experience in landscaping, ecological restoration, and project management to PCI. He holds a C27 landscape contractor’s license, and multiple professional certificates including Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper, CA Native Plant Landscaper, and ReScape Qualified Professional. With PCI, Bob works as a project manager and crew supervisor, specializing in plant science, revegetation, vegetation management, irrigation systems, defensible space landscape practices, and horticulture. In his free time, you can find Bob birding, botanizing, skateboarding, playing music, or engrossed in a good book.

Daniel Balen Sharp-Biggs
Landscape Restoration Technician

  • Daniel Balen – known as “Balen” to the crew – is a longtime friend and seasonal employee of PCI who rejoined the construction team full-time in 2024. Balen grew up on a sheep ranch in Bodega and graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.S. in Environmental Studies in 1998. After working for AmeriCorps and renovating an off-grid cabin with DIY solar and gravity-fed spring water, he hired on with PCI in the early 2000s, doing seasonal riparian and wildland plantings and erosion control and filling his schedule with carpentry. Balen expanded into landscape construction throughout the Bay Area for many years and was a less familiar face around PCI, but he returned in 2024, bringing decades of skill in equipment operation, crew supervision, carpentry, CAD and estimating to his new role. He enjoys the camaraderie of PCI, and can be found in his off-time surfing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.

Dakota (Cody) Reis
Foreman & Equipment Operator

  • Cody has worked on restoration and conservation projects for PCI since 1999. He has progressed from an unskilled laborer to foreman. He has been involved in a wide variety of restoration implementation projects including: fish passage, stream channel and off channel habitat creation, bioengineered bank repairs, natural swim ponds, floodplain enhancement, native revegetation, small and large-scale rainwater harvesting projects, complex irrigation systems, landscape installation, and erosion control. He is an experienced equipment operator and sawyer. He has also served as the designated biological monitor and assisted PCI’s biologists with capture and relocation of threatened and endangered species on many projects.

Dylan Reynolds
Seasonal Restoration Technician

  • Dylan joined PCI in May 2021 and returns seasonally whenever he migrates back to Sonoma County from his many adventures. He’s worked on PG&E revegetation and irrigation projects, private landscaping contracts and fuels reduction, burning and invasive management efforts. Between his stints at PCI, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Range Management from the University of Idaho, studying how wildlife and livestock utilize grasslands. He also works seasonally in wildland fire for the US Forest Service and has completed a three-month stint at KC Harvey doing mining restoration and reclamation in Wyoming. Dylan is particularly fond of Sonoma County’s oak savanna landscape in spring when it’s green and there is abundant food for wildlife. In his personal time, you can find him fishing, hunting, and generally prowling and stewarding whatever wildland he can access.

Ethan Loudon
Restoration Field Technician

  • Ethan has been a valued team member at PCI for over 30 years, and has a deep appreciation for the natural landscape and a desire to preserve the earth for all species in generations to come. Ethan gained his first opportunity to work for PCI in 2005 during his summers in high school and quickly decided to work seasonally for PCI while pursuing his educational journey at his own pace. Over the years, Ethan has developed into a knowledgeable and skilled environmental construction laborer, equipment operator, and an indispensable member of the PCI construction and safety teams. He loves that each project PCI completes is a step toward healing the land. In his off time, his current favorite activities include disc golf, board games, and spending time with his family.

Gus Ekstrand
Foreman & Equipment Operator

  • Gus joined PCI in 2024, bringing seven years of dedicated experience in ecological restoration. During a motorcycle trip from Minnesota to Baja California in late 2016, he met an inspiring restoration contractor in Cazadero who changed the course of Gus’ life. From a background working in construction trades, arts organizations, restaurants, and manufacturing, Gus was presented an opportunity to combine his skills and mechanical aptitude with interests in culture, history, law, policy, planning, and community resiliency. Since 2017, he has contributed to dozens of restoration and land management projects including tidal marsh and vernal pool construction, creek and wetland restoration, ecologically focused fire fuel management, and road and trail grading and decommissioning for watershed resiliency. His hard working enthusiasm and passion for interdisciplinary learning have earned him many opportunities to develop as a laborer, heavy equipment operator, grade setter, foreman, and a member of project leadership teams with Charles Hope Construction, Shasta College, Marin County Open Space District, Hanford ARC, and now PCI. Although he misses the family farm where he was raised in Wisconsin, he feels grateful to call Sonoma County home and to contribute to expanding opportunities in such a challenging and fulfilling industry.

Justin Seeley
Restoration Field Technician & Crew Leader

  • Justin joined PCI with over 15 years of experience in regenerative design and land management. Whether working with coffee and cacao plantations in Panama and Costa Rica or planning commercial compost operations in the Chilean wine country, Justin is committed to improving the way humans engage with the land. Here in California, he most recently owned and ran a design/build company specializing in water retention landscapes. He taught bilingual landscape construction at SRJC. He is a proud father and ocean lover; when he isn’t working, you can find him playing soccer with his wife and daughters or somewhere coastal catching waves.

Leo Dunleavy
Seasonal Restoration Technician

  • Leo is a seasonal Restoration Field Technician who joined PCI in winter 2024. Leo’s chainsaw and burn-pile experience have helped bolster the company’s fuels- and invasives-management team, and he’s played an ongoing role in the restoration of an HOA in the wildland-urban interface in eastern Santa Rosa impacted by the 2017 Tubbs Fire. Leo’s B.A. in anthropology is likely just the beginning of his educational journey. He is taking continuing classes in GIS and art around his workdays at PCI and hopes to investigate how anthropology is uniquely suited to answer big ecological questions containing many diverse facets and stakeholders at the graduate level. In his free time, you can find Leo rock climbing and enjoying the coastal and Russian River ecosystems of Sonoma County.

Macario (Maca) Rodriguez
Restoration Field Technician

  • Macario is an experienced restoration field technician who has worked at PCI for over 20 years on many erosion control, revegetation and irrigation installation projects throughout Northern California. His project involvement also includes plant establishment and maintenance. In addition, he is excellent with wood working, welding and steel fabrication tasks.

Michael (Giaco) Giacomelli
Restoration Field Technician

  • Michael “Giaco,” is a restoration field technician who joined PCI in 2022. Michael holds three AA degrees from Santa Rosa Junior College (Natural Resource Management, Social and Behavioral Sciences and Digital Media) and has a natural talent for native plant ID, erosion control and trail building. Their diverse skill set, strong work ethic and positive “can-do” attitude shines both on and off the field. Besides erosion control, revegetation, invasive plant management and fuel load reduction, they played a key role in introducing PCI’s new environmental health and safety app. He also recently completed the ANSI-accredited Rainwater Catchment Systems Designer course.

Mike Reinbolt
Construction Group Manager

  • Mike Reinbolt joined PCI in 2024 as Construction Group Manager. He brings over 15 years of experience in landscape and restoration construction management, with expertise spanning a wide range of projects, including public works landscape construction, environmental restoration initiatives, PG&E contracts, construction estimating, and Caltrans projects. Mike’s knowledge encompasses advanced underground irrigation systems, habitat and creek restoration, environmental landscape construction, revegetation efforts, erosion control, and sustainable land management practices. Originally from San Rafael, Mike now lives in Sonoma with his wife and son. Outside of work, he enjoys coaching youth sports like competitive soccer, Little League baseball, and other team activities, golfing with friends, and spending time with family.

Rachel Dovey
Project Coordinator & Restoration Field Technician

  • Rachel Dovey is a Project Coordinator and Restoration Field Technician who joined PCI in 2021. Her dual background in journalism and regenerative agriculture has included work for the Sierra Club, KQED, the American Society of Landscape Architects, Alchemist Farm and the Warnecky Ranch, among others. A Sonoma County native, she enjoys understanding complex systems – whether they be state regulations or the snacking habits of voles – and appreciates the fact that PCI’s design/build structure means she can get dirt under her fingernails. When not at work she can be found making wooden spoons, tending to her rabbits and hanging out with her wild children.

Rudy O'Cop
Restoration Field Technician & Crew Leader

  • Rudy is a restoration field technician and crew leader at PCI, working on erosion control, revegetation and irrigation installation projects throughout Northern California. He holds an associate of science degree in natural resources from the Santa Rosa Junior College, and is also an Army veteran. He has a passion for wildlife conservation and spending time outdoors. He’s a lifelong resident of Sonoma County and appreciates all the amazing food and drink grown and created here. In his free time, you can find Rudy enjoying the company of his family, bowling and hiking the gorgeous hills of Sonoma County.

Additional Support

Pearl
COO (Chief Observation Officer)

Cleo
CTO (Chief Treat Officer)

Waylon
Security

Dusty
CFO (Chief Fetch Officer)

Ringo
CMO (Chief Morale Officer)

Shelton
Excavation Specialist

Rook
Snack Technician II

Siegfried
Napper-in-Chief

Jackson
NIT (Napper In Training)

Sunny
Water Quality Specialist

Henry
Waste Management Inspector

Zuka
Construction Supervisor

In Memoriam

Roberto Riveros
Restoration Field Technician & Equipment Operator

  • In July 2024, beloved Restoration Technician and Equipment Operator, Roberto Riveros passed away peacefully surrounded by family. Roberto had been at PCI for over 22 years, and the net benefit of his environmental work continues to grow alongside the countless native trees and shrubs he planted and tended. He was always up for traveling and volunteered for some of our company’s toughest jobs. He was very proud of his restoration work and recently went on an adventure with his kids to the Pit River / Burney Falls area to check on some trees he planted many years ago. He was a master with rock work and excelled at some of the more technical aspects of the technician job. RIP Bob, “the man who planted trees,” a dear friend.