If you are looking for an engineering, environmental, legal or other consultant for your project or issue, these PNWA member organizations support the Pacific Northwest water resources community.
ANAMAR Environmental Consulting, Inc. is a woman-owned small business headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, with an office in Portland, Oregon, serving the West Coast. ANAMAR offers a variety of environmental services to government, industry, and private enterprises as well as other professional consulting organizations. ANAMAR is a versatile company that specializes in environmental sampling and monitoring, project design and management, data review and interpretation, and report preparation. As a small business, ANAMAR is able to provide individual attention to each aspect of a project and meet the specific needs of our clients with a professional, cost-efficient, and scientific approach.
Anchor QEA, LLC is a nationally recognized environmental and engineering consulting firm that works closely with clients toward common goals on dredging, sediment management, aquatic permitting/planning, water resources, coastal development, and habitat restoration projects. We provide a full range of science and engineering services to the public and private sectors, including planning and strategy development, scientific investigation, engineering design, and construction management. Our clients recognize that the strength Anchor QEA brings to each and every project reflects our core values of technological leadership, integrity, superior product quality, and client satisfaction.
Cascadia Law Group PLLC provides clients with the most effective representation available in our region. We represent clients in litigation and regulatory matters that include complex, sometimes controversial environmental, land use, and natural resource issues. Our partners come from some of the largest international firms in the country, senior policy positions within government, and regulatory agencies.
CFM Advocates is a fully integrated consulting firm with practice areas in federal lobbying, state lobbying, and public relations. As one of the Pacific Northwest’s premiere public affairs firms, our bipartisan team of professional lobbyists has successfully represented public and private sector clients for over 30 years. With decades worth of experience, relationships and political skill to draw upon, CFM has a long and successful track record delivering results for our clients. Whether it be passing legislation, securing funding, or developing and executing strategic campaigns, we pride ourselves in providing principled advocacy to achieve real results.
Collins Engineers For over 33 years, Collins has been providing engineering services to various private and public clients nationwide. The initial expertise of the firm, founded in Chicago in 1979, was in the areas of structural and transportation analysis, design, and underwater engineering. Over the years, the firm’s ability to provide additional engineering services has evolved. Experienced professionals have joined Collins to provide a host of additional abilities and diverse expertise in the planning, design, construction inspection and condition assessment of a large variety of civil engineering systems and related works.
Crossroads Strategies is a bipartisan, multi-disciplinary federal relations, advocacy and advisory firm based in Washington DC. Founded in 2010 by longtime advocacy industry veterans, CRS offers a wide suite of services ranging from congressional affairs to agency and regulatory lobbying. Leveraging the skills and knowledge of 20 practitioners hailing from the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf Coast, CRS not only offers direct advocacy services to our clients, but also strategic intelligence and reputational management, including executive positioning. At CRS we are committed to anticipating and managing political challenges in partnership with our clients before those challenges present a true detriment to their interests.
David Evans & Associates For more than 40 years, DEA has provided clients with unique and innovative design services for transportation, water and environmental, land, energy, and marine infrastructure systems. Our staff includes engineers, surveyors, hydrographers, planners, landscape architects, and natural resources scientists. DEA has 30 offices in 11 states and employs more than 1,000 people. DEA is an employee-owned corporation and consistently ranks among ENR’s (Engineering News Record’s) “Top 100 Pure Design Firms” in the United States.
Ecological Land Services, Inc. provides environmental consulting and permitting services specializing in land, water, and shoreline projects involving resources such as wetlands, streams, rivers, wildlife habitat, and sensitive, threatened, and endangered wildlife and plant species. We have worked with a number of ports in the Northwest and understand the environmental resources, impacts, and permitting processes that are essential to achieving successful economic development. ELS is based out of Longview, Washington, and has been working throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska since 1996. We also have branch offices located at the Port of Bremerton, Port of Camas Washougal, and the Port of Sunnyside.
Farallon Consulting is an environmental consulting firm with offices in Washington, Oregon, and California. We have served over 1,500 clients throughout the United States, meeting environmental needs ranging from due diligence and site characterization through engineering design and remediation, landfill services, stormwater compliance and permitting, water resources, sediment management, and technical support for mediation and litigation. We have a reputation for collaborative, innovative solutions and a culture that values open communication at all levels and recognition and reward of hard work. We are 100 percent employee owned, and each employee has a stake in making Farallon the best choice for environmental project needs.
Gordon Thomas Honeywell is a dynamic group of individuals offering comprehensive professional consultancy services including governmental affairs, government research, strategy consulting, and association management to a diverse client base. With three offices (Washington, DC; Tacoma, Washington; Seattle, Washington), GTH-GA’s global team of experienced professionals is prepared for any challenge.
Grette Associates was formed in 2002 and employs biologists and project managers with years of professional aquatic resource and permitting consulting services. We specialize in helping public- and private-sector clients understand and comply with environmental regulations in Washington and Oregon.
GSI Water Solutions Since 2000, GSI has helped clients protect and manage shared natural resources with solutions that are practical, forward thinking, and built on a foundation of sound science. Founded in 2000, GSI is an employee-owned groundwater, environmental, and water resources consulting firm. As hydrogeologists, environmental scientists, engineers and water resources experts, we look for cost effective, practical solutions to help you make sound, strategic decisions.
Haley & Aldrich, Inc. is committed to delivering the value our clients need from their capital, operations, and environmental projects. Our one-team approach allows us to draw from our 800 engineers, scientists, and constructors in 35 offices for creative collaboration and expert perspectives. Since our founding in 1957, we have had one goal in all we do: deliver long-term value efficiently, no matter how straightforward or complex the challenge.
HDR When H.H. Henningson founded the Henningson Engineering Company in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917, his focus was to help rural Midwest towns adapt to a changing world. He brought power to the plains and water treatment systems where they were needed most. Today, HDR is nearly 10,000 employees strong with more than 225 offices around the globe. HDR brings an impressive breadth and depth of services to their clients as they specialize in engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services.
Jordan Ramis PC is a law firm dedicated to businesses, organizations, and entrepreneurs building and defining the future of the Pacific Northwest. Our attorneys concentrate representation and advocacy in Government Law, Dirt Law, Business Law, and Litigation. Our longstanding presence in the Pacific Northwest is rooted in more than just the law. Many of our attorneys had previous careers and backgrounds in construction, architecture, real estate, logging, government, human resources, insurance, the EPA, DEQ, and other regulatory agencies. Our industry understanding and experience offers clients new advantages and opportunities.
JUB Engineers We are transportation engineers, traffic engineers, airport engineers, water and wastewater engineers, land development engineers, structural engineers, construction engineers, surveyors, planners, funding consultants, landscape architects, and GIS and public involvement specialists. We are problem solvers, trusted advisors, and professionals. We guide our clients through all phases of their projects: planning, funding, design, and construction. We offer the expertise of the national firms, with the service and attention of a hometown firm. We are J-U-B ENGINEERS, Inc.
Maul Foster & Alongi is an integrated engineering, environmental science, communications and public outreach, planning, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and health and safety services consulting firm with eight Pacific Northwest offices. MFA offers creative and award-winning professional services to clients representing diverse industry and municipal sectors. Our team is well-versed in highly- visible port projects that bring crucial economic and environmental issues to the forefront of their communities. MFA employees exceed our clients’ expectations and deliver our work on time and on budget. We know that our success is directly tied to our clients’ achievements, and the responsibility for facilitating those achievements motivates MFA personnel both individually and collectively.
Moffatt & Nichol enjoys the privilege of serving our Pacific Northwest clients from offices located in Seattle, Anchorage, Northern California, Vancouver BC and looks forward to further supporting our local communities in meeting their recreational and industrial waterfront needs. M&N offers each client a comprehensive project view, with primary practices that reflect the unique interrelationship between the local setting and each individual project’s needs from planning through design and construction into operation as we apply the tools of our engineers, scientists, economists and planners where water meets the land. Our primary practice areas are marine terminals; coastal, water & the environment; waterfronts & marinas; energy; inspection and rehabilitation; and transportation.
Normandeau Associates uses science, technology, and innovation to address the world’s most complex environmental challenges. We are a science and data-driven natural resources team; our expertise empowers clients to prioritize, plan and enhance decision making. Our standards are high, our analysis is insightful, accurate, scalable and proven. Since 1970, we have been delivering results clients can be confident in. Normandeau’s scientists include highly-credentialed bat, bird, fish and wildlife biologists; botanists; aquatic, marine and terrestrial ecologists; federal and state permitting experts; NEPA specialists; wetland scientists; limnologists; GIS and technology specialists; and other technical and support staff.
PBS Engineering & Environmental Our core mission is to create and deliver programs, design solutions, and field services to diverse organizations. We do this by combining quality people with quality work yielding quality results. Our nimble, multi-discipline teams serve our clients with best practices, sustainable, and technology-based solutions. PBS was established in 1982 as a Portland-based professional services firm dedicated to assisting the public and private sectors with health & safety and environmental issues. Since that time, our firm has expanded through multiple offices across the Pacific Northwest offering a wide range of engineering, environmental, health and safety, and surveying services.
PND Engineers, Inc. is a full-service consulting engineering company providing civil, structural, geotechnical, coastal, and marine engineering, hydrology and hydraulics, construction engineering, value engineering, survey, environmental and permitting assistance, inspection and quality assurance, and research and development services. PND provides services to all sectors, including individuals, businesses, corporations, and local, state, and federal governments.
PointNorth is a minority woman-owned small business that works with purpose-driven community builders. At the core of the way we work is a commitment to equity, building community, and fostering inclusive climates. We are collaborative leaders who believe people come first, always. Guided by seasoned communicators and inspired by fresh talent—our team specializes in community engagement, organizational development, and marketing & creative solutions. We create space to uncover the possible.
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt What do you get when you’re “Represented by Schwabe”? Innovative solutions from lawyers who know every deal has a dream and every risk an opportunity. A committed team that understands your industry and cares about your business. And the comprehensive resources of one of the Pacific Northwest’s top full-service law firms. With over 165 attorneys, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt serves its Northwest clients from offices in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Bend, Eugene and Salem. Schwabe maintains one of the largest maritime, ports and transportation practices in the Pacific Northwest—from water-related matters and environmental issues to governance and employment to real estate and land use.
Stoel Rives LLP grew up with some of the Northwest’s earliest railroads and electric utility companies. Having gone through many name changes over the years, the current firm is the result of the 1979 merger of two important Portland firms—Davies, Biggs, Strayer, Stoel and Boley; and Rives, Bonyhadi and Smith—followed by the 1987 joinder with the Seattle firm Jones, Grey and Bayley; the firm’s expansion to Boise and Salt Lake City in the 1990s; and the 2001 combination with the California-based firm Washburn, Briscoe and McCarthy. In 2007, the firm expanded to the Midwest for the first time, when it opened an office in the Twin Cities. Encouraged perhaps by the ability of visiting Stoel Rives lawyers to endure the Minnesota winter cold, the firm opened an office in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2008. The latest expansion came in 2013, when the firm opened an office in Washington, D.C.
Summit Strategies was founded in February 2015 by five partners with more than 150 years of government and government affairs experience following their departure from the government affairs practice at Ball Janik LLP. The Firm maintains offices in Portland and Washington, D.C., and its professionals have extensive experience at both the federal and state levels on matters involving transportation, natural resources, energy, the environment, economic development, tax policy, labor, trade and defense. The Firm represents a number of Northwest ports, a wide range of municipal and county governments, trade associations and business clients. Summit professionals have helped clients secure significant contracts and federal funding for their projects and have helped shape favorable federal and state policies that advance their objectives.
Van Ness Feldman is a nationally recognized law and policy firm providing legal counsel, thought leadership, and policy strategy to clients navigating the complex intersection between business and government. Van Ness Feldman professionals have a deep familiarity with port governance including permitting, development, and operational issues facing port districts and their commercial and industrial facilities, including marine terminal facilities. With over 100 professionals in Seattle, Washington D.C. and the Bay Area, Van Ness Feldman is renowned for representing clients in the inter-related areas of energy, the environment, natural resources, public lands, real estate, land use, and infrastructure development.
Wapato Valley Mitigation and Conservation Bank (sponsored by family-owned Plas Newydd, LLC) is an 876-acre multi-resource wetland mitigation and conservation bank located in the Columbia River floodplain in Clark County, Washington. Wapato Valley will provide mitigation credits for: impacts to wetlands and other aquatic resources authorized under the Clean Water Act; fish credits (in the form of DSAYs) for NMFS ESA-listed salmon; conservation credits for streaked horned lark; and Oregon white oak priority habitats (a county-regulated Critical Area).
WSP provides a full range of engineering services for port, transportation, and infrastructure projects throughout the world. The firm’s experience includes all phases of development of waterfront industrial and maritime terminal facilities for receiving, storing, processing, and shipping commodities by all modes of transportation. This includes deep sea and inland ports and waterways, container and general cargo terminals, heavy-lift installations, liquid and dry-bulk terminals, and intermodal facilities. Numerous projects have included environmental assessments, dredging, and land reclamation. WSP stands ready to provide a full range of services to port and marine terminal operators.