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We work with a variety of clients from the federal, state and private sectors...
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States Fish & Wildlife Service Inventoried wetlands and deepwater habitats using the NWI classification for the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Field work was conducted to ensure photointerpretation accuracy and consistency for various projects in: New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Mississippi. Wetlands were inventoried with respect to hydrology and landscape position for use in hydrogeomorphic assessment of wetlands. Co-operating Agencies: US
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The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Chapter Mapped vegetation and land use cover for the island of Martha's Vineyard for The Nature Conservancy, Massachusetts Chapter. Mapping included various forest types and successional plant communities, including areas colonized by exotic species, beach and dune systems and wetlands. Globally-sensitive sandplain grassland and heath communities were identified. |
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Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Wetland Restoration and Banking Program Inventoried wetlands using NWI classification and analyzed potential wetland restoration sites for seven watersheds in Massachusetts. Data was positionally rectified for digitization. Five watersheds were inland and two included tidal and inland wetlands. Wetlands degraded by disturbance such as filling, ditching, impoundment and tidal restriction, and wetlands subject to external sources of potential contamination such as leachates, agricultural, surface and turf runoff were identified as potentially restorable using photointerpretation. |
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Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Wetlands Conservancy Program Generated detailed wetland inventory data using low altitude photography for distribution to Conservation Commissions in the Commonwealth. Approximately 75% of the Commonwealth was covered during the project. |
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Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Narragansett Bay Estuary Program R.I. South Shore Project Inventoried coastal wetlands and deepwater habitats for the South Shore of Rhode Island, to include detailed mapping of eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds. R.I. Narragansett Bay Project Inventoried coastal wetlands and deepwater habitats for Narragansett Bay watershed, RI and nearby Massachusetts, using National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) classification; and characterized a 500-foot buffer; and characterized hardened shorelines using photointerpretation. The project also included detailed mapping of eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds. The data was rectified and digitized for input to a GIS. The data was further analyzed to identify potential coastal wetland restoration sites, to include ditched and tidally-restricted wetlands and the extent of the invasive plant, Phragmites australis; and wetlands subject to dredge spoil deposition and fills. Also identified were external sources of potential degradation to coastal wetlands (landfill leachates; surface, turf, sand and gravel, and agricultural runoff). Also produced was a trend analysis of coastal wetland changes for the era 1950s-1990's. Areas of special interest were trended for an additional era, 1930's to 1950's. The trends data documents coastal wetland loss to upland, change within wetlands (for example, progressive invasion of Phragmites) as well as land use trends in the 500-foot buffer zone. |
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Inventoried land use/land cover and wetland habitats within Minuteman National Park, Concord, Massachusetts using classification developed by the National Park Service. |
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Berkshire Regional Planning Commission Inventoried wetlands and deepwater habitats of the Hoosic watershed in western Massachusetts using National Wetlands Inventory classification, including field documentation of wetlands and disturbed wetlands. |
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