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DESCO has helped industry, agencies, and landowners preserve and enrich environmental resources through environmental planning for over 10 years. We maintain our success by balancing the goals of industry with the environment. A thorough understanding of the client's proposed activities and objectives, combined with our innovative strategies in the way of natural resource evaluation, preservation, restoration, and enhancement, contribute to project success.
Our diverse multidisciplinary staff of professionals is very knowledgeable of and experienced working in a variety of habitat types, each of which has its own resource concerns. We are adept in writing NEPA documents, such as categorical exclusions (CEs), environmental assessments (EAs), environmental impact statements (EISs), and biological evaluations (BEs); and we specialize in assessing natural and cultural resources to assist with environmental planning and regulatory compliance.
DESCO can assist with your environmental planning needs through the following services:
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Natural Resource Identification, Assessment, and Management to establish qualitative and quantitative data of occurrences and density of resources in a given area and develop plans for responsible management of those resources in compliance with applicable regulations.
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Threatened and Endangered (T&E) Species Surveys
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Habitat Assessments
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Vegetation Mapping and Assessments
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Wildlife Surveys
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Fisheries Assessments
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Water Quality Assessments
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Soil Surveys (Wetland and Horticultural Studies)
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Wetland Delineation
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Wetland Mitigation Planning
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Cultural Resource Identification, Assessment, and Management to identify, interpret, maintain, and preserve significant cultural sites and physical heritage assets.
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Historic preservation planning
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Historic property surveys
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Archaeological surveys, assessments, and documentation
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Artifact analysis and curation
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Applied Anthropology, including tribal consultation
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SHPO/THPO consultation
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Habitat Conservation Plans to develop detailed information on potential project-related impacts to sensitive species and/or habitats within a given project area, and to recommend actions that can be taken to minimize or mitigate such impacts.
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Remediation/Mitigation Plans to compensate for unavoidable damages to sensitive resources
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Conservation Easements to protect properties from invasive activities and to conserve the natural and man-made resources of the land. Benefits to landowners as a result of these easements include tax incentives, aesthetic values, potential restoration funding, and preservation for future generations. |
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