About DNL Environmental

DNL Environmental offers demonstrated experience and proven field skills for a variety of utility, highway and other construction clients.  

Our services include biological construction monitoring, environmental training and wildlife surveys.

DNL’s Principal Biologist David N. Lee has over eight years experience as an environmental inspector and field biologist. David earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at U.C. Santa Cruz where he studied conservation biology and conducted field research on macaws in the Peruvian Amazon and gray whales off the California Coast. He studied plant community ecology as a graduate student at Montana State University, where he earned an M.S. degree in Biology.

Since then, David has worked as an environmental inspector and biological monitor on numerous linear construction projects while performing biological surveys for wildlife, rare plants and weeds. All of the projects involved close communication and teamwork with contractors and government agency representatives. He is a Santa Barbara County-approved Biologist. David also serves on the Board of Directors of Rancho La Viña Corporation, a family-owned ranch in Santa Barbara County, CA with walnut orchards, vineyards, cattle pasture and wildlands.