An enthusiastic team of professional biologists ready to tackle your toughest projects.

Balk Biological provides thorough and expert biological planning services, while making the experience fun, easy and efficient. We are a truly woman-owned business, dedicated to on-budget and on-time service. You’ll enjoy working with us and our decisive process which makes the life of your project that much smoother.

Balk Biological generally focuses on the Southern California market, with current and past projects in San Diego, Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Kern Counties. Recent projects, however, have taken BBC to central and northern California (San Luis Obispo, Solano, and Mendocino Counties), thereby greatly expanding the firm’s biological expertise in a very short period of time. Balk Biological serves many types of clients, from the single-family homeowner seeking to build an addition to his/her home to the state agency seeking the best management of its resources to the private or public utility company desiring an increase in green energy production.


Balk Biological’s team is experienced in, and regularly performs, a full complement of biological consultant services, including:

  • Vegetation community mapping,
  • General and special-status floral and wildlife surveys,
  • Wetlands delineation,
  • Habitat restoration,
  • Environmental compliance monitoring during construction,
  • Biological resource impact assessment, and
  • Biological document preparation.

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Skills in these areas are continually being updated, with team members regularly attending specialized trainings, workshops, and even university-level coursework. In addition, Balk Biological regularly teaches courses on plant groups such as asters or special-status plant species of Southern California and has, in the past, provided pro bono plant identification services for the California Native Plant Society.

Statement of Qualifications

Balk Biological Consulting Statement of Qualifications

We have been working with Michelle for several years now and I am very impressed with her thoroughness and expertise; if the plants are there she will find them!

Paul Galvin

Harmsworth Associates

Contact us today to discuss your next project and how we can help! 760-672-4559