Lyz Bender

CONSTRUCTION BRANCH MANAGER/WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST

Lyz has been studying and working with stream restoration and wildlife habitat restoration for the past twelve years in Colorado. She holds two B.S. degrees from Colorado State University in Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Natural Resources Management. Through her position at AloTerra she enjoys working every day to improve wildlife habitats and riparian corridors across Colorado and Wyoming.

Following the 2012 Colorado Front Range floods, she has been involved with dozens of erosion control and stream restoration projects where she managed construction and revegetation crews, conducted stormwater management practices, and provided on-site ecological field fitting.

Since 2017, Lyz has been conducting Biological Assessments and Habitat Suitability Assessments in accordance to the Threatened and Endangered Species Act of 1973.

As a project manager for AloTerra, Lyz provides construction oversight for a variety of ecological restoration projects, reads and implements design plans, trains and leads restoration crews, operates equipment, conducts on-site surveys with Topcon equipment, manages and identifies weed populations, conducts seed collections in alpine and wetland regions of Colorado, provides winter willow ID, and performs and oversees floodplain grading.

Collected a variety of native forbs for seeding in the northern front range of Colorado, collected native seeds for Environmental Learning Center in order to increase native species for pollinators, and collected seeds for an alpine tree research project.