Using environmental science and design expertise to avoid, minimize, and mitigate the effects on natural and physical resources.
Unifying our expertise in environmental science, consulting, planning, and permitting, we develop comprehensive strategic solutions that help our clients balance development with conservation and sustaining natural and physical resources. In partnership with clients and regulators, our team supports clients in designing projects that meet the highest environmental standards, are realistic, are cost-effective, and account for local sensitivities.
Our comprehensive analysis of your site’s past, present, and future uses allows us to understand existing resources and assess potential environmental impacts. This includes evaluating direct physical disruptions to specific resources and identifying ways to help conserve these resources, as well developing strategies for preserving ecosystems, watersheds, and broader regional and global factors.
Through our proactive and forward-thinking approach, we aim to shape a brighter future for our clients and the natural world. We recognize that true progress lies in actively seeking out opportunities for improvement. This allows us to address emerging challenges and capitalize on new possibilities, ensuring that our clients remain at the forefront of conservation and sustainability efforts.
Proof Points
Experts on staff
Projects annually
Natural resource compliance inspections annually
Studies, assessments, field sampling, surveys, and monitoring of fresh, brackish, and saltwater species to protect and improve aquatic life and habitats.
Restoring uplands, wetlands, and aquatic systems for a more sustainable and resilient future.
Studies range from specific species to entire ecosystems, and they inform planning to avoid and minimize impacts while sustaining population viability and ecosystem function.
Using aquatic species' behavior and life history to inform designs that promote upstream or downstream passage for many species.
Mature woodland assessments, resource inventories, best management practice development, fire studies, forestry management, forest mitigation planning, and wildlife habitat assessment are also included.
We help our clients implement a permitting strategy, including developing schedules and mitigation plans to expedite permitting and compliance and obtain critical local, state, and federal permitting.
Assisting clients with dredge permitting, sediment sampling, and restoration.
Services to provide hydric soil analysis, infiltration studies, land application studies, soil fertility testing, and soil mapping and classification.
Thoughtful and innovative planning to address the unique challenges associated with sustaining water quality without adversely impacting the environment or the public.
Expertise in wetland and water assessment and delineation, wetlands jurisdictional determinations, mitigation planning, restoration, design, and permitting.
Natural Resources & Environmental Planning Practice Lead
Chris Rutledge
