RDG:
Where restoration meets daily life
One team, many disciplines
RDG is a small team of engineers, landscape architects, and planners who restore damaged creeks, rivers, wetlands, and upland landscapes while creating parks, trails, and open spaces that connect communities with nature. The team stays hands-on from the first site visit through construction, grounding every project in real ecological science while keeping a close eye on how people will actually use and maintain these places over time.
A few places we've helped restore
These projects span creek restoration, trail design, and habitat work across California. Each one started with a damaged or underused site and became a place people and wildlife now rely on.
Roy's Redwoods
Mount Umunhum
Butano Creek
The capabilities behind every project
Environmental Planning
The groundwork behind every project is strategic and procedural, covering the questions that come before design begins. RDG handles watershed strategies, site management plans, permits, community engagement, and grant writing, clearing the regulatory path so restoration and design can move from plan to action.
Landscape Architecture
Every restored landscape has a story, and telling it is our work. Panels, trailhead displays, and educational graphics built from custom illustrations, maps, and clear narratives turn complex ecological and cultural ideas into something people actually connect with.
Restoration Engineering
Repairing damaged natural systems is the core of RDG's restoration work, from creeks and wetlands to shorelines and upland habitats. Engineering, geomorphology, ecology, and landscape design come together to restore the processes that shape each place, helping landscapes function more resiliently.
Interpretations
& Graphics
Two things come together here, applying the science of botany and ecology to buildable designs, and shaping the human side of restoration, the parks, trails, and signage that make restored ecosystems places communities can actually access and enjoy.
Roy’s Redwoods Preserve
“This is no ordinary restoration, it is a work of high art. The design of the trails and pathways, the careful choreography of the visitor’s movement through the space, and the inspired use of natural materials reveal a level of artistry and ecological sensitivity that is truly rare. You have given the community more than a place to walk—you’ve created a sanctuary.”