Natural Resource Management

The Louis Berger Group (Berger) is one of the world's leading firms in natural resources management, wetland mitigation, and ecological restoration, and is uniquely qualified to prepare comprehensive natural resource management plans, implement planting, habitat enhancement, construction and complete the work successfully in a timely manner.

Berger has prepared planting plans to create, restore and enhance a wide range of landscape settings including saltbush scrub, longleaf pine savannahs, estuarine tidal marshes, forested wetlands, shrub-scrub wetlands, emergent wetlands, freshwater tidal wetlands, brackish tidal wetlands, and open marshes. Berger's planting installations have an enormously high success rate, demonstrating our understanding of the relationship between the critical selection of vegetative species and soil, hydrology, grading/site preparation, and installation methods. Among the technical specifications developed by Berger are those for sapling planting, bedding for reforestation, scrub-shrub planting, emergent planting, salt marsh planting and seeding, herbaceous seed gathering and storage, various seeding mixtures (perennial and annual), fertilization materials and programs, plant material specifications, growing contracts for herbaceous materials and saplings, the installation of clay liners, excavation operations and wildlife control measures.

The professional staff at Berger has exceptional qualifications to provide comprehensive wetland delineation, evaluation, mitigation design, and monitoring services. The Louis Berger Group proudly notes that we have not only developed wetland mitigation plans for numerous successful wetland creation/restoration sites worldwide, we were selected by the Waterways Experiment Station (WES) to author one volume of their published handbook entitled, Engineering Specifications for Wetland Plant Establishment and Subgrade Preparation. This handbook is being used nationally by wetland professionals as a guide for the creation and restoration of wetlands. The volume we authored explains the process involved when proceeding from a wetland mitigation design concept to engineering plans and specifications that are suitable for public bid and advertisement. The information provided is geared toward educating the non-engineering professionals engaged in developing wetland engineering specifications.

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