Matt Petersen

Matt Petersen is SWCA’s Senior Technical Director for Planning and NEPA. He has 30 years of experience as a NEPA project manager and planning specialist and has managed or provided NEPA oversight for more than 50 large-scale environmental impact statements (EISs) in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming. His NEPA experience includes work with most major federal agencies, including Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS) U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and the Federal Avian Administration (FAA). His NEPA projects include wind farms, transmission lines, agency resource management plans (RMPs), fire management plans, airports, stream restoration, mining, oil and gas development, pipelines, and power plants.