Revegetation and restoration: Planning, design and implementation, including site assessment, plant salvage, installation and ecological maintenance.
Invasive exotic weed control: Surveys and assessments; management and/or eradication strategies; multiple control techniques based on site-specific conditions and requirements. Common weeds we deal with include knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum, Polygonum X bohemicum), Himalayan blackberry, hairy willow herb, thistles, pasture grasses, etc.
Erosion control: To reduce surface erosion, sediment transport and runoff. Mulching, installation of native plants, seeding, straw application, silt fences and erosion control blankets at construction sites, mitigation projects, etc.
Surveys of on-site native plants and plant communities: Even on degraded or long-tamed sites there are often surviving local plants; we encourage these relics as a valuable part of our land management work.
Tree preservation: Protection strategies during construction (prevent soil compaction!), management, maintenance, fine pruning (no high climbing). ISA Certified Arborist.
Fire safety and defensible space: Planning and implementation of vegetation management to achieve defensible space around your home and other values at risk.
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Revegetation and Restoration of natural areas:
This winding, natural trail through the woods allows access to a destination point/seating area with huckleberry, wild strawberry and cultivated blueberry. The alder thicket was also enriched with Sitka spruce, Western redcedar and grand fir.
Creek and wetland restoration work in Whatcom County.
Bohemian knotweed (Polygonum X bohemicum) is a tremendous noxious weed problem in Europe, in the NE USA, and in the PNW. It is swallowing much of the Nooksack River, and indeed, most of the rivers in the Northwest. We are specialists in knotweed control, having completed surveys and management work on the Nooksack since 2003 for the Whatcom County Noxious Weed Control Board.
The native shrubs clustered along the banks of this small creek will shade and cool the water, and will also provide excellent songbird habitat and reduce erosion into Lake Whatcom.
