Through a strategic acquisition of contracts and an expanded staff, HELIX Environmental Planning will offer paleontological services and broadened teams for cultural resources and biological services.
Effective September 15, 2025, HELIX Environmental Planning will acquire the majority of contracts from Bargas Environmental Consulting and will welcome a new team of paleontologists, archaeologists, and biologists to our locations across California.
The acquisition will establish a new service line for HELIX, offering paleontological services to clients throughout California and the western U.S. This includes paleontological resources technical studies for CEQA/NEPA documents; paleontological sections of CEQA/NEPA documents; paleontological preconstruction surveys; paleontological mitigation plans; paleontological monitoring; and fossil documentation, significance evaluations, salvage, preparation, identification, analyses, and curation coordination.
Our new leaders will include Courtney Simmons-Richards who will be joining HELIX as our new Paleontology Discipline Leader, and Joe El Adli, PhD who will serve as an interim manager for his transitioned cultural resources team before returning to the paleontology group with Courtney.
“HELIX has been providing environmental consulting services in California for 34 years,” said Shelby Howard, CEO of HELIX. “We are thrilled to welcome this expanded team that shares our values and commitment to providing high-quality service and trusted expertise for our clients, and a supportive employee-owned culture for our staff.”
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HELIX Environmental Planning (HELIX) is an employee-owned firm and a leader in environmental planning and natural resource sustainability. Established in 1991 and with offices in offices in San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, and Placer counties and the Bay Area, HELIX provides a broad range of environmental consulting, habitat restoration, and design services throughout California and the western United States. HELIX has extensive experience helping public and private clients comply with environmental laws and regulations, manage natural and cultural resources, and design and construct sustainable projects. HELIX’s in-house services include CEQA/NEPA compliance, biological studies, cultural resource studies, architectural history, habitat restoration, landscape architecture, regulatory permitting, environmental compliance and mitigation monitoring, and air quality/greenhouse gas and noise studies. Beginning September 15, 2025, HELIX will begin offering paleontological services. For more information, visit www.helixepi.com.