Michael Parenti, CEO, is a Registered Professional Forester in the State of California with over three decades of experience in forest management, hydrology, water quality, wildfire suppression, post-fire wildfire hazard mitigation and environmental permitting and compliance.
Stonely Forestry is a vendor for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE). Stonefly Forestry provided equipment and operators to assist in the suppression and the repair of facilities damaged by wildfire suppression activities for the August Complex Fires and Zogg Fire (2020) and the Monument and Dixie Fires (2021).
Stonefly Forestry implemented a vegetation management project with the Stonelfy skid and mastictator for CALFIRE at the La Tour Demonstration Forest in 2020. Stonefly Forestry succesfully masticated approximately 20 acres of brush in a christmas tree plantation.
Michael Parenti has provided environmental permitting expert witness services to Nida & Romyn, PLC and their client Tutor-Saliba Corporation. Mr. Parenti also provided hydrology and water quality expert witness services to the United States Department Department of Justice.
With over four decades of wildfire suppression and post-wildfire hazard mitigation experience Mr. Parenti is a valuable resource for any litigation related to wildfire damages.
He also has over three years experience verifying and inspecting vegetation management operations implemented by Pacific Gas & Electric Company to increase the reliability of electrical distribution facilities.