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We are excited to announce that our new "Field Guide to Hydric Soil Indicators" eBook is now available for sale! Whether you're a wetland scientist, environmental consultant, or land manager, this comprehensive guide is designed to help you accurately identify hydric soils in the field. Based on the 2024 Field Indicators of Hydric Soils in the United States, Version 9, this eBook focuses on the most commonly encountered hydric soil indicators. It offers detailed explanations, practical guidance, and region-specific examples to ensure that you can confidently assess soils across a variety of landscapes. This essential resource will help you with wetland delineation, environmental assessments, and conservation planning. Key Features: -Comprehensive Field Guide -2024 Standards-Based -Practical Soil Identification -Regional-Specific Examples Don’t miss out on this valuable tool—purchase your copy today and get the most up-to-date information to support your fieldwork! https://lnkd.in/eGfRQd8y

What is the term for smaller watersheds that are part of a larger watershed system? Answered A) Sub watersheds B) Micro-watersheds C) Mini-watersheds The correct answer is https://lnkd.in/d7AmtNNu

We recently wrapped up some exciting work with USFS on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. MB&G worked to establish and maintain a fuel break across 2,600 acres to protect nearby communities, diminish fire behavior, and improve firefighter safety. The team created a stand examination plan with 100 plots, collection forest type, primary fire carrier for vegetation, aspect, slope, tree data, and photos for fuel model analysis. A treatment prescription was created to mitigate the vegetation and thin timber stands. 1,600 acres were determined as needing to be treated. MB&G helped the project meet a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) categorical exclusion (CE). Check out the full project sheet below or download it here: https://lnkd.in/gazzrpZe

So, you know that you want to set up an environmental pathogen management program in your food plant. Your reasons for doing so are clear — but do you have a plan? 🤔 Let Jack van der Sanden outline a step-by-step approach to plan your pathogen hunt and develop a logical environmental pathogen management program. ✅ ❎ Download the full white paper to get started: https://lnkd.in/dyPrnciE  #FoodSafety #FoodBusiness

So, you know that you want to set up an environmental pathogen management program in your food plant. Your reasons for doing so are clear — but do you have a plan? 🤔 Let Jack van der Sanden outline a step-by-step approach to plan your pathogen hunt and develop a logical environmental pathogen management program. ✅ ❎ Download the full white paper to get started: https://lnkd.in/dcy-a-ji  #FoodSafety #FoodBusiness

So, you know that you want to set up an environmental pathogen management program in your food plant. Your reasons for doing so are clear — but do you have a plan? 🤔 Let Jack van der Sanden outline a step-by-step approach to plan your pathogen hunt and develop a logical environmental pathogen management program. ✅ ❎ Download the full white paper to get started: https://lnkd.in/eMvDph55  #FoodSafety #FoodBusiness

‘If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.’ So said Bjarne Stroustrup, and we would say the same thing about getting planning permission. People are often ‘caught out’ when they experience the range of issues that can be involved in what they thought was ‘straightforward’: • Preparing an application can take many weeks or months and involve numerous supporting reports. On some projects these reports have together amounted to thousands of pages. • Getting a decision following submission can take time too, because there is so much information that needs to be considered. • Natural Resources Wales can be involved as well as the local planning authority. • Examining and reporting on environmental issues can be time consuming because this work is often seasonal. • To be accepted, by the planners and regulators, reports on many environmental topics, trees, bats, or birds for example, need to be done by recognised licensees.

Like anything else, getting more involved in conservation can require learning certain skills for how to properly manage your land. If you're looking to learn these skills, but don't know where to start, check out this blog from Doug Duren in our Becoming a Conservationist blog series on how to build your skills and conservation resume! Read the blog: http://ms.spr.ly/6045oPnaD

Join us for the “Water & Wildlife Permitting for Development and Infrastructure” webinar on September 11th, where our Environmental Science (ENS) experts will discuss how to streamline permitting processes for projects. This webinar will introduce developers, civil engineers, planners, architects, and other members of the development community to our environmental science service line and outline some effective and efficient strategies that can help improve the success of projects.   The session is presented by our Operations Manager Brennan Anstey and Senior Project Biologist Carolyn Prentice. This webinar is designed to provide an overview of surface environmental regulations. This includes streams and wetlands as well as wildlife and species at risk in the land development context. These regulations apply anytime there are changes to the surface of the land. Understanding how these regulations apply to a land development or infrastructure project are often critical to a successful development outcome.   Register today - https://lnkd.in/gcMYBPYi   #Water #Wildlife #WaterandWildlifePermitting #EnvironmentalPermitting #EnvironmentalScience #AquaticEnvironments #TerrestrialEnvironment #WorkingTogetherMakingThingsBetter

Working with landowners is key to improving soils and thus surface runoff into watercourses which impact water quality and cost UK taxpayers millions to treat. Nature based solutions generally offer cost effective, easy to implement systems and can often offer benefits to bolster crop yields through healthier soils and biodiversity net gain! Swales, bunds, sediment capture pools, intercropping and conservation tillage are to name just a few of these! 💧🚜 #flooding #waterquality #nature #agriculture #farming