Steve Pye is a licensed California General Engineering Contractor with over a decade of experience specializing in in-stream habitat enhancement, stream bank shaping and stabilization, bioengineering, road and trail design and construction, riparian and tidal wetland revegetation projects, forestry and prescribed fire, and native, drought tolerant and xeriscape landscape design and construction. The variety of projects that he has worked on include the implementation of bioengineering techniques such as willow walls, mattresses, and pole cuttings, bank shaping, grading, and armoring, tidal wetland and riparian revegetation plantings, infiltration swale construction, forest thinning and shaded fuel break implementation, irrigation system installation, rural road and trail design and construction, and residential native landscape design, grading, and planting. Steve has implemented more than 100 projects since 2019 at many different scales, from the planting of over 20,000 native grass plugs on a 2.5 mile-long levee within the Sears Point Wetlands and Watershed Restoration Project to implementing a 3-mile long shaded fuel break in the Mayacamas mountains to stream bank repair, habitat enhancement, and revegetation projects at private residences in Marin and Sonoma Counties. His knowledge of the limits and abilities of heavy equipment, understanding of fluvial and tidal processes, knowledge of California’s flora and fauna, and experience with project implementation give him a unique perspective and skillset set that sets him apart from many contractors and allows him to tackle a wide variety of projects.

Education:

• Masters of Landscape Architecture in Environmental Planning, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 2017

• B.A. Environmental Studies, Sonoma State University, Spring 2013

Qualifications & Experience:

• licensed california general engineering and Landscape contractor (Classes A & C-27). LIcense #1043953

• Expertise and Specialties:

  • Bioengineering

  • Forestry and Prescribed Fire

  • Rock slope protection

  • Grade control, check dam, step pool, and roughened channel construction

  • Stream bank stabilization, revegetation, and armoring

  • Erosion control and best management practice implementation

  • Anchored and unanchored Large woody debris and engineered log jam construction

  • Riparian and tidal wetlands revegetation

  • Invasive species management

  • Native landscaping and xeriscaping

  • Rural road design, construction, repair, and decommissioning

  • Native vegetation management and urban forestry

  • Fluvial geomorphology

  • California ecology

• Over 10 years of experience involviNG:

• design and construction large wood habitat structures (anchored and non-anchored);

• Operation of heavy equipment in confined residential spaces, stream channels, and steep, uneven terrain;

• construction of rock slope protection, stream bank armoring, and grade control structures;

• design and construction of bioengineering projects including willow mattresses, combined willow pole and rock slope armoring, woven willow walls, willow check dams, willow waddles, and other bioengineering techniques;

• drip irrigation systems for RESIDENTIAL and habitat enhancement planting projects;

• Rural road and Trail design and construction, including oversight of construction operations and road assessment;

• implementation of small and large-scale riparian and tidal wetland planting and revegetation projects;

• Installation of erosion control best management practices;

• Installation of native plant gardens, french and end drains, and rocked and vegetated drainage swales;

• general excavation and grading