Ecological Analysis

Wetlands impacts, biological inventories and habitat analysis. The following projects represent a variety of clients EECOS has served.

Litchfield Land Trust — Prepared Conservation Documentation Reports on their holdings of nearly 75 easement and fee properties. Properties ranged in size from a few acres to more than 100 acres. Topics included conducting a basic ecological inventory and assessing landowners' reserved rights on easements and management recommendations on fee properties. This project took two years to complete.

Plum Bank Beach — Faced with possible development for a parking lot, EECOS was asked to assess whether this dune complex was a naturally functioning system. An ecological inventory and sand profiling revealed that this was indeed one of the last remnant dune complexes remaining in an otherwise developed area.

McCulloch Farm — Performed an environmental inventory and prepared a documentation report focusing on impacts of land use practices as they related to the placement of a Conservation Easement on the property. This 400-acre farm had not been a working concern for more than 50 years and interest centered on successional issues as they related to overall changes in the landscape and future agricultural uses.