Meet the owner.

Riley Consulting offers a broad suite of services in support of ecological and native plant restoration. Our sole proprietor, Lisa Riley, has dedicated the past 26 years to responsibly managing and restoring native plant communities in the United States and abroad. Her extensive experience in the restoration field adds value to each step of a restoration project, including Proposal Writing, Restoration Planning, On-Site Consultation, and Ecological Monitoring.

Riley Consulting also has close working relationships with many experienced professionals in the field of ecological restoration in the Pacific Northwest, including wetland specialists, soil scientists, foresters, botanists, statisticians, contractors, licensed applicators, and native plant material suppliers. Whether you want to bid on a project, prepare planning documents, improve revegetation outcomes, or monitor site progress, Riley Consulting can help you achieve your goals.


testimonials & feedback

Lisa is very professional and responsive to my company’s needs. Typically, proposal preparation happens during a short time window. She has done a great job at meeting our deadlines, saving me time and headaches. I look forward to many future collaborations with her.
— Mark Merkelbach, CEO Green Earth Operations, Inc., Seattle
Lisa has provided technical support to our organization for over 15 years. Her years of field experience in a variety of natural resource areas, coupled with her knack for document preparation makes her an asset to any project. She is a pleasure to work with and builds great relationships with our partners and clients. Whether we enlist the services of Riley Consulting for developing restoration plans, on-site technical expertise, or monitoring for performance standards, we can always rely upon a professional quality result.
— Dwayne Werner, President of WildLands, Inc.
Lisa led the restoration effort to establish shrub and tree seedlings on (a remediated mine site). I visited the site when her crew was planting the seedlings. She had been out there for many weeks and was working with an assortment of mining subcontractors. With her knowledge and expertise in restoration ecology, she saw that the revegetation plan needed to be tweaked based on ground conditions and assumptions that had changed somewhat since the plan had been written. She and I discussed these changes and I agreed with her assessment. But then she had to persuade the mining company that this was the right thing to do. This took finesse, a quality often required (but underappreciated) to pull off a successful project. From what I experienced that day on the site, is that Lisa had gained respect from everyone around her, from her crew members to the mine workers.
— David Steinfeld, Soil Scientist/Revegetation Specialist