Who We Are
Nick Walendziak - CEO/Founder
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Prior to starting Crux Environmental Consulting, Nick Walendziak worked for over 13 years as an outdoor recreation planner and natural resource manager with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, California, Georgia, and Kentucky.
Most recently, he served as the Trails and Dispersed Recreation Program Manager for the USFS Rocky Mountain Region, where he developed national and regional trail and recreation policies and strategies to increase agency capacity. |
Nick is experienced as a project manager/NEPA coordinator for various recreation, trail, travel management, special use permit and landscape scale projects. He facilitated successful stakeholder engagement and fostered partnerships to better serve local communities. He managed and analyzed GIS data to inform critical planning and education efforts. He brings experience with grant and agreement administration, budgeting and project implementation.
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Our
Approach
- Creative
- Inclusive
- Thorough
- Defensible
- Data driven
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COMMUNITY PLANNING AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTFacilitate successful stakeholder engagement and foster partnerships between communities and public land managers to better serve local communities.
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LAND USE PLANNINGNick has extensive experience working as a public land manager to create land use plans that balance recreation and other user demands, regulatory requirements, and conservation to protect habitat, biodiversity, water, wildlife, cultural resources and/or scenery.
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ENVIRONMENTAL (NEPA) COMPLIANCENavigation through the complex NEPA compliance process and creation of NEPA documents that are defensible and compliant with federal regulations.
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