Lowering base elevation to match adjacent marsh and fill in existing basin	Re-vegetating with native sawgrass plants

• Planned and implemented first known bayhead swamp restoration in Mississippi on Oyster Bayou in Harrison County.

Re-alignment of former stream channel	Re-vegetating with native bayhead swamp plants

• Eco-Logic planned and coordinated the 2007 Wild Wing River and Nature Festival for the Institute for Compatible Development, a non-profit created to facilitate regional collaboration relative to matters pertaining to economic development and the environment . The festival’s goals are to educate our communities about the value of our Pascagoula River watershed and surrounding open spaces and to bring eco-tourists from the Gulf Coast and surrounding areas that will support our local economy and show respect and appreciation for our wildlife, culture and community.  Our important, long-term goal is to fuel a regional marketing base, which will be both fast-growing and sustainable.

• Project management to “Build Six Watershed Partnerships in 2006” for Land Trust for Mississippi Coastal Plain. Watersheds include Turkey Creek (Harrison County), Boley Creek (Pearl River County), Old Fort Bayou (Jackson County), Red Creek (Stone County), Tuxachanie/Tchoutacabouffa (Harrison County), Lower Jourdan/Rotten Bayou (Hancock and West Harrison County

• Environmental consultant to Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain

• Eco-Logic is currently under contract to conduct prescribed burning on over 9,429 acres of land within the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Southwest Region. The scope of work includes preparation of fire breaks and/or burn lines, writing prescribed burn plans, multi-agency coordination and implementation of urban interface prescribed burns within Chasshowitzka Wildlife Management Area, Perry Oldenburg Mitigation Area, Chinsegut Wildlife Environmental Area (including the Big Pine Tract), Little Gator Creek, and Hilochee WMA (Osprey Unit). The WMA/WEA’s include a variety of habitats ranging from sandhill, longleaf pine, mesic and xeric flatwoods, wet prairies, marshes and mixed hardwood swamps with varying degrees of fuel loading including moderate to heavy fuels in areas near homes, schools, businesses and hospitals. Special consideration is used in developing and initiating burns in these areas. In addition, all prescribed burn plans afford protection for all endangered species identified on these areas.

• During the fall of 2008, Eco-Logic will conduct the first of its kind native groundcover restoration project within the Ferndale Preserve on Lake Apopka in Lake County, Florida. The project involves the restoration of 192 acres of upland habitat including a sandhill community which was converted to orange grove in the early 1920’s.  The groundcover restoration will be accomplished using a method known as “direct seeding” where the seed of desirable native plants is collected from donor sites in Florida and spread over prepared soils. The process involves prescribed burning, exotic vegetation control through the use of approved non-restricted herbicides, disking soils, native seed collection/installation and follow-up weed control. Ferndale Preserve is being restored in the ongoing effort to preserve the uplands surrounding the famed Lake Apopka.

• Cedar Mountain Gopher Tortoise Relocation Project (Hernando County)
  In 2006, Eco-Logic successfully relocated 65 gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) and several commensal species from land owned by Cedar Mountain Estates, LLC that was scheduled for development as a single family residential community.  The tortoises and commensal species were relocated to the Howell/Ashton Gopher Tortoise Preservation Area (Alachua County), managed by Ashton Biodiversity Research & Preservation Institute, Inc. and are monitored annually in perpetuity.
  

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