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Sable Kitchen is the President and majority owner of Adams Environmental, Inc., a certified woman-owned small business offering environmental consulting services and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Established in 1996, the firm and its current owner are certified as a small, woman-owned business enterprise (SBE, ESBE, and WBE) through the South Central Texas Regional Certification Agency and a Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) through the State of Texas. As an active employee and President, Ms. Kitchen oversees all business operations including project management and administration, contract negotiations, financial management (including invoicing), business relations, marketing, QA/QC of technical reports, and the day-to-day operations of the office. Her particular areas of expertise within Adams Environmental include project management of both large and small-scale projects; budgeting and long-term strategic planning; writing, QA/QC, and publishing of technical documents and proposals; ensuring the quality and timeliness of the deliverables; and designing efficient marketing strategies; client development; and planning. She focuses a good portion of her efforts on the day-to-day management of crews and personnel, their tasks, and budgets in her project management duties. This also includes management of subconsultants and coordination of their scope of work and completion of fieldwork, reports, and coordination with regulatory agencies. Ms. Kitchen closely monitors her companies task orders and associated budgets for their on-call contract with the City of San Antonio for environmental services.

Before Ms. Kitchen became President of Adams Environmental, Inc. in 2011, she held the position of Business Manager and Marketing Manager and oversaw all marketing-related work for the company as well as coordinated and prepared proposals for bids since early 2010. Her background in Health Administration and knowledge of business, management, and marketing, along with on the job training and experiences, has prepared her to lead Adams Environmental, Inc. into continued success.

During her tenure as owner and an employee with Adams Environmental, Inc., Ms. Kitchen has prepared numerous winning proposals, and she has assisted or has led in the writing of deliverables. She continuously serves in a QA/QC capacity for all projects, reviewing every deliverable that leaves the office as a part of her QC process. Ms. Kitchen conducts the project management, project administration, and scheduling of field work for the company's projects. As mentioned before, her forte resides in the day-to-day and strategic management of the business, project management and subcontractor coordination, ensuring expeditious delivery of deliverables and satisfied clients.

Ms. Kitchen is a former Director of the San Antonio Chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA), a current member of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), the Secretary for the Social & Networking/Continuing Education Committee for the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) San Antonio Chapter, and an active member of the Land Committee for Green Spaces Alliance.

Qualifications

• 14+ Years of Experience in the environmental consulting field and management
• Bachelor's of Health Administration, B.H.A. – Texas State University, 2009
• TxDOT Public Involvement for NEPA Training Course (ENV 112)
• TxDOT Pre-Certifications: 1.8.1 Public Involvement

Dr. Lynn Kitchen is one of the original founders of Adams Environmental, Inc. and has over 35 years of experience in working with ecological and environmental projects. During his time as an environmental consultant, he successfully completed NEPA Environmental Assessments, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Section 404 permits, Natural Resources Management Plans, Mitigation Plans, Biological Assessments (as part of formal consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Wildlife Surveys, Vegetation Mapping, and Stream Studies. He has used GIS technologies since 1993 and taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in GIS at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

Dr. Kitchen has a great deal of experience in the delineation of wetlands and development of mitigation plans in Texas, Nevada, Ohio, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Virginia. He has successfully negotiated and obtained Section 404 Individual Permit and Nationwide Permits in several locations across the U.S. He has a practical knowledge of the Clean Water Act and its impact on construction and other projects.

In 2004, Dr. Kitchen began to focus his efforts assisting Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) in natural resources management of the 2.9 million acre Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). In 2010, Dr. Kitchen began a new endeavor. He and his wife, Susan, moved to Nevada where he would pursue new work and contracts out west with a separate company of his own, Adams Ecology, Inc., that focuses on the ecological needs of the arid southwest region. Most of the work completed with that company was for the Department of Defense/federal government. In 2017, Dr. Kitchen completed a large contract involving vegetation and wildlife surveys and writing all natural resources support documentation for a Legislative Environmental Impact Statement (LEIS) in conjunction with NTTR Land Withdrawal Renewal and Proposed Expansion Lands through his Nevada company. Dr. Kitchen now resides in Texas and enjoys spending most of his time working on his land.

Qualifications

• 35+ years in environmental consulting
• B.S. Wildlife Science Texas A&M University, 1976
• M.S. Range Science Texas A&M University, 1977
• Ph.D. Agronomy/Crop Science University of Kentucky 1980
• TxDOT Pre-Certifications: 2.3.1 Wetland Delineation; 2.4.1 Nationwide Permits; 2.4.2 Individual Permits; 2.4.3 U.S. Coast Guard & USACE Permits; 2.6.2 Impact Eval Assessments; 2.6.4 Biological Evaluations/Assessments; 2.12.1 Socio-Economic & Environmental Justice Analyses; 2.14.1 Environmental Document Preparation

Matthew Kitchen has over sixteen years of experience in environmental science and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and environmental consulting. He began his career as a GIS Analyst with AEI in 2008. He received his GISP in January 2015 and completed his Master’s degree and GIScience certificate in March 2015. While his specialization lies in GIS mapping/modeling, Mr. Kitchen serves as an environmental scientist and technical writer for AEI. Throughout his years with the company, Mr. Kitchen has written numerous NEPA documents and has completed a large variety of projects, making his environmental experience well-rounded. He is trained in wetland delineations and Waters of the U.S. (WOUS) and has prepared numerous Clean Water Act Section 404 Pre-Construction Notifications (PCNs) submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for transportation and capital improvement projects, utilities, flood control, bank stabilization, and private development. He is experienced in ecological projects across the state of Texas. He is well-versed in Section 404 permitting, and he brings valuable experience with environmental document preparation under NEPA.

Mr. Kitchen plays an integral role in AEI’s previous and current On-Call NEPA Contract with the City of San Antonio (COSA) Public Works Department and AEI’s On-Call Contract for Natural and Cultural Resources with CPS Energy. He is also the Project Manager for an IDIQ contract with the San Antonio River Authority for GIS services. He has been essential on AEI’s teams with civil engineers and landscape architects who are hired by COSA to design the hike and bike trail segments of the Howard Peak Greenway Trails Program.

Mr. Kitchen brings over 14 years of experience assisting public and non-profit entities on conservation projects, such as ecological and environmental baseline documentation reports for COSA’s Edwards Aquifer Protection Program (EAPP), the City of Austin’s Water Quality Protection Lands (WQPL) Program, Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas (dba Bexar Land Trust), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Guadalupe Blanco River Trust (GBRT), Valley Land Fund, Pheasants Forever, Inc., Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program (CBBEP), Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), and multiple law firms. He is well-versed completing environmental projects from start to finish by initiating work with the client and stakeholders, collecting data in the field, and preparing the reports and all figures/maps using GIS.

Qualifications

• 17+ years of GIS and Environmental Science experience
• Bachelor of Science, Texas State University, 2008
• Master of Natural Resources with Emphasis in GIS, Oregon State University – March 2015
• GIScience Certificate, Oregon State University – March 2015
• GISP Certification – January 2015
• ISA Certified Arborist® TX-5072A
• Wetland Delineation Training Course
• OSHA 30-hour General Industry Course
• FAA Part 107 Licensed Drone Pilot – Certificate # 3992956
• USFWS Endangered Species Recovery Permit (ES74409C) for golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia)
• TxDOT Pre-Certifications: 2.3.1 Wetland Delineation; 2.3.2: Conditional/Functional Assessments; 2.4.1 Nationwide Permit; 2.7.1 Section 4(f) Evaluations; 2.12.1 Socio-Economic and Environmental Justice Analyses