Tim Degraff

Tim DeGraff serves as Regional General Manager for the Western states for RES. Tim is a certified professional wetland scientist with experience in wetland habitats throughout the United States with extensive experience in California. Before joining RES, Tim was CEO for WRA, Inc., a California-based professional consulting services firm focusing on plant, wildlife and wetland ecology and regulatory compliance.

Tim has conducted over one hundred wetland delineations and has taught the wetland delineation certification class through San Francisco State University for ten years. His specialty is complicated projects involving large wetland impacts, endangered species consultation, complex mitigation requirements, and interagency negotiation. Tim was also the lead scientist and led the effort to entitle the largest wetland mitigation bank in California, the first stream mitigation bank in California, and several innovative conservation banks including the first amphibian conservation bank involving translocation.