2025
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Governments and NGOs
Supporting Public Projects from Local to Federal and Everywhere In Between
No matter where you fall within the bureaucratic web, SWCA helps agencies, municipalities, Tribes, non-profits, and land management organizations with policy support, impact studies, permitting, and resilience planning.
What Governments and NGOs Need to Know
You’re tasked with managing public trust, natural resources, and community well-being, all under tight budgets, timelines, and oversight. At SWCA, we support mission-driven work with regulatory know-how, science-based planning, grant support, and culturally sensitive engagement. Whether you’re stewarding land, responding to climate risks, or aligning with policy priorities, we help you deliver impact with integrity.
Sound Science. Creative Solutions.
- Environmental Impact Studies
- Land Management
- Permitting
- Policy & Grant Support
- Resilience Planning
Pain Points We Address
- Community Engagement Mandates
- Complex Regulatory and Stakeholder Requirements
- Limited Internal Capacity
- Navigating Grants, Funding and Policy Requirements
- Need for Custom, Scalable, Mission-Aligned Solutions
- Pressure to Show Outcomes, Not Just Compliance
- Resilience and Long-Term Land Stewardship
Clients Like You
- Federal Agencies
- Land Management & Conservation Organizations
- Municipalities
- Non-profit Organizations
- State Agencies
- Tribal Governments
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Meet the Experts
Environment and Infrastructure Vice President
Anne Cabrera
Anne has more than 18 years of experience and specializes in multi-hazard risk and resilience planning and mitigation. Her expertise includes compliance monitoring, procurement, multiagency coordination, public information, closeout processes, and audit support.
Strategic Growth Director | Policy
Ross Pilotte
Ross is a respected expert in infrastructure permitting with a decade of experience in project, program, and policy development, management, and implementation. His primary focus has been on streamlining and enhancing the transparency of permitting decisions across federal, state, tribal, and local governments while prioritizing public input and environmental resources.
Senior Planning Technical Director
Matt Petersen
Matt Petersen is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Technical Director for SWCA. Matt has 31 years of experience as a resource specialist and has managed or provided NEPA oversight for over 30 large-scale environmental impact statements (EISs), including projects in Arizona, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont, Texas, New Mexico, California, and Wyoming. This NEPA experience includes work with most major federal agencies and encompasses resource management plans (RMPs), ski areas expansions, fire management plans, stream restoration, mining, oil and gas, pipelines, transmission lines, wind farms, airports, and power plants. Matt has taught custom NEPA seminars for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Matt has developed and routinely teaches several open-enrollment NEPA courses to industry professionals, lawyers, and agency staffs. In addition, Matt is a regular instructor on NEPA impact analysis and third-party consulting for the BLM National Training Center (NTC). Matt recently developed the BLM National Training Center courses “NEPA Analysis for EAs” and “Kick-Start Your RMP,” both of which Matt has taken on the road to BLM field offices throughout the continental Unites States and Alaska. Technical expertise includes aquatic habitat impact assessment, mitigation, and restoration; hydrological modeling and analysis; and wetland delineation, mapping, and impact analysis. Matt is also experienced in the use and application of analytical models for quantitatively assessing natural resources impacts through the NEPA process.
