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ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS GROUP LLC
115 West Third Street, Suite 210, Stevensville, MT 59870 USA
(406) 777-1881 |
Scope of Consulting Services
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- Site Remediation, Reclamation, Restoration, and Revegetation
- Inventory, Assessment, Measurement, Monitoring, Mapping, and Planning
- Management Planning and Technical Writing
- Data Management, Analysis, and Reporting
- Legal Support Services
- Program and Project Management
Site Remediation, Reclamation, Restoration, and Revegetation
- Services related to CERCLA (Superfund) activities, including:
- Screening Studies
- Site Characterization
- Ecological Risk Assessment
- Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
- Record of Decision
- Remedial Design
- Remedial Action
- Operation and Maintenance
- Planning and design for restoration and reclamation of disturbed lands (based on site vegetation potential) to restore natural functions, including sites on:
- Mined land
- Grazed land
- Land disturbed by timber harvest and/or fire
- Land disturbed by pipelines and utility infrastructures
- Land disturbed by roadway and other transportation corridor construction
- Land disturbed by military activities
- Degraded streambanks and lakeshores
- Contaminated site remediation and restoration; including:
- Contaminated site analysis
- Biological fate and transport studies
- Remedial design
- Contamination removal
- Restoration planning
- Native plant revegetation, based on site vegetation potential
- Post implementation site monitoring
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Inventory, Assessment, Measurement, Monitoring, Mapping, and Planning
- Detailed riparian and/or wetland site inventory (flora, fauna, and physical site characteristics), with functional health assessment of:
- Lotic sites (streams and rivers)
- Lentic sites (still water wetlands)
- Stand-alone functional health assessment of:
- Lotic sites (streams and rivers)
- Lentic sites (still water wetlands)
- Land type mapping based on vegetation, surface hydrology, land uses, etc.
- Plant population measuring and monitoring, including:
- Data collection
- Processing
- Analysis
- Interpretation
- Reporting
- Ecological site classification based on natural vegetation and site potential
- Restoration-oriented vegetation field research
- Determination of Functionally Effective Wetland Area (FEWA)
- Floral and faunal sampling
- Hydrology-related studies including:
- Channel and streamflow surveys
- Water quality monitoring/TMDL assessment
- Rosgen Level 1-IV assessments
- Pfankuch stream health assessments
- Watershed assessment/modeling
- Equivalent clearcut analyses (ECAs)
- Hydrograph development and interpretation
- Sediment transport assessment
- Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) reporting
- Soils studies including:
- Soil sampling and mapping
- Soils analysis
- Assessment of environmental impacts of heavy metals/contaminants
- Soil amendment prescriptions
- Restoration planning at ecosystem, watershed, and site-specific scales including:
- Revegetation prescriptions, planting palettes and planting designs
- Seeding specifications
- Invasive plant species (weeds) management and control
- Herbivory control
- Irrigation prescriptions
- Stream stabilization designs
- Bioengineering designs
- Natural wetland design and creation
- Treatment wetland design and creation
- Monitoring methods
- Maintenance protocols
- Development of engineer’s estimates/cost assessments
- Long-term monitoring
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Management Planning and Technical Writing
- Environmental management and compliance
- Writing site specific, goal oriented, land management plans and best management practices
- Technical document writing
- Permitting assistance
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Data Management, Analysis, and Reporting
- Natural resource data management, analysis, and web-based data delivery service, including:
- Database design and application
- Data entry, analysis, summary, and reporting
- Interactive client database maintenance
- Internet web serving (hosting—publicly accessible or password secure)
- Advanced ecological data analysis and modeling
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Legal Support Services
- Natural resource damage assessment
- Restoration costing
- Expert witness testimony
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Program and Project Management
- Environmental compliance oversight
- Development and oversight of technical teams
- Remediation/restoration construction oversight
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