Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc.

10/29/2020

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/927901189/experts-to-western-states-time-to-finally-fight-wildfires-with-more-fire

Experts warn that Western states and the federal government need to radically increase the number and size of controlled burns to help reduce the ongoing risks of more catastrophic wildfire seasons.

03/06/2020

Egypt has announced an ambitious plan to expand mangrove forests by launching the largest mangrove planting project along the Red Sea, according to Sayyed Khalifa, director of the mangrove forestry project in the Governorate.

02/18/2020

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/319343-kae-hovater-as-florida-grows-mitigation-banking-provides-a-way-to-preserve-our-natural-wonders

This system uses a market-based approach that involves an exchange of credits.

08/08/2019

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805134012.htm Prescribed burning is an essential tool, if not the most essential tool ecologists use to restore landscapes to thriving native plant communities. The fire ecology community has long agreed that CO2 emitted from fires is recaptured as the native plant communities recover, but this research postulates that the prescribed fires are not just carbon neutral, but in fact sequester carbon as charcoal, a stable form of organic matter in soils. Charcoal bits are common in Florida soil profiles to a depth of 2 meters or more. How did it get so deep from the soil surface? Pedoturbation is the disturbance of soil profiles including movement of soil materials by animals, typically burrowing animals. Thats how!

Charcoal produced by wildfires could trap carbon for hundreds of years and help mitigate climate change, according to new research. A new study quantifies the important role that charcoal plays in helping to compensate for carbon emissions from fires. Researchers say that this charcoal could effecti...

08/08/2019

The United States has lost the equivalent of nine Grand Canyon national parks, o...

08/06/2019

With some Florida habitats needing regular intervals of fire, we carefully conduct controlled burns to safeguard the long-term survival of these places.

03/11/2019

Please join the Florida Association of Environmental Soil Scientists at the annual Hydric Soils Workshop in Ocala, Florida on April 10, 2019. go to www.faess.org for more information.

2018 FAESS Hydric Soil Workshop

07/13/2018

The Northwest Florida Water Management District (NWFWMD)Governing Board approved the winning RFP responses for Hydrological, Ecological and Hydrogeological Services yesterday and I am proud to announce that Ecological Resource Consultants had the top score in the Ecological Services category! Thanks to our team partners Travis Richardson Soils of Gainesville, and Moffatt & Nichol of Pensacola. This is ERC's fourth NWFWMD ecological contract in 6 years. We are hopeful for many task orders in the next 3 years and a contract extension for the following 3!

07/13/2018

spotted a pair of Black Bellied Whistling Ducks and 4 juveniles at the Panama City Conservation Park while doing recon at a habitat restoration site. Reported to ebird.com and noted that 6 adults were observed close by (flying overhead) in 2017. If you are a birder and want to add this species to your life list, take the main gravel/dirt road beyond the parking area, north until you see the flooded area on the left.

07/12/2018

The Standardization Class for Florida Soil Science Certification was conducted at the offices of Ecological Resource Consultants Inc. in Panama City Beach Florida on Saturday June 16, 2018 and we now have two new Florida Certified Soil Scientists- Christopher D'Aiuto, of Clermont, FL and Kevin Thomas of Charlotte, NC. Chris is an Agricultural Value Chain Consultant currently working in South Africa and Kevin is a pedologist for a private consulting firm. Also attending to maintain certification credentials and/or obtain professional CEUs were Joseph Sullivan (USDOT), David Hammonds (Florida Onsite Sewage Program), Travis Richardson (Richardson Soils). Any Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) Certified Professional Soil Scientist (CPSS) is eligible for certification in Florida following successful completion of the Florida Standardization Course. If you are interested in becoming certified, please contact me about the next class. Currently the Florida program qualifies Florida certified CPSSs to conduct site investigations for the OSTDS program per F.A.C. 64E-6.004(3).