Our Services

Pacific Headwaters LLC provides fisheries, watershed, and environmental compliance consulting across California, backed by hands-on field experience and agency-side regulatory knowledge.

Field & Technical Services

  • Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling and analysis
  • Stream surveys and habitat assessment
  • Watershed analysis
  • In-stream project implementation
  • Post-fire restoration

Environmental Compliance & Planning

  • NEPA compliance documentation
  • CEQA compliance documentation
  • Environmental compliance support
  • Project planning

Credentials

  • USCG Captain's License

About Us

About Pacific Headwaters

 With Craig Hemping as principal biologist, Pacific Headwaters LLC is a community-oriented, veteran-owned environmental consulting firm specializing in all things water related — from fisheries and stream systems to watershed compliance.

Craig is a U.S. Navy veteran and 2009 graduate of California State University, Chico (B.S., Biological Science), with more than 15 years of professional experience managing natural resources across Idaho, Oregon, and California.

A fish leaps upstream against a rocky waterfall.

Northern CA and Beyond

 Pacific Headwaters LLC is based in Corning, California, with deep roots in Northern California's national forests and watersheds — and career experience that extends into Oregon and Idaho. We bring fisheries and wildlife biology, CDFW and federal regulatory compliance, and watershed assessment expertise to public agencies and private landowners, wherever the project takes us. 

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Contact Us

Drop us a line!

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pacificheadwaters@outlook.com

208-640-4525

California, United States

Open today

09:00 am – 05:00 pm


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