Bridget Atkin is the principal and founder of WESTERN-ENVIRO and has over 16 years of botanical consulting experience.  She has managed and worked on hundreds of projects focusing on monitoring and mapping flora and wetland resources throughout the Intermountain West, Colorado Plateau, Mohave Desert, and Great Basin regions.  Her work specializes in federally listed threatened, endangered and sensitive plant species, habitat characterizations, noxious weed inventories, biological inventories, wetland permitting and mitigation design and reclamation planning.  In addition, Bridget is experienced acting as the primary coordinator between private, federal and state agencies for water-related planning and permitting tasks, landscape development, large and small scale landscape planning and design and oversight of planting installation.   Further, her experience emphasizes the use of native plant community succession to reclaim disturbed landscapes and strives to minimize or avoid the use of chemical pesticides.  Ms. Atkin holds a Master of Plant Science from the Department of Plants, Soils and Climate Department and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planing Department, both from Utah State University.