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A Celebration of Our Sites Through the Seasons Winter Spring Summer Fall  

Building a Better Company and Community Community outreach is an important part of our vision and values here at Westervelt Ecological Services (WES).  Last week, our team in Sacramento spent the morning volunteering at a local park, raking, trimming and hauling debris.  The focus within the park was a community garden space that had fallen

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Hosted by Lucy Harrington, Conservation Planner at WES

In a recent report released by the Society of London and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the world’s 100 most endangered species are presented.  Of all the species that made the list, the Dusky gopher frog, Lithobates sevosus is the only mainland U.S. species in the report.  Ironically, it is found in the

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The Humor of Working in the Field Due to the nature of our business here at Westervelt Ecological Services we tend to spend a fair amount of time in the field.  On a daily basis, our crew can be found, trudging along through fields and sloughs – mapping, monitoring and mowing along the way.  It’s

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Love has been in the air at our Chickasawhay Conservation Bank in Mississippi!  Tortoise love, that is.  We have recently found several new burrows at our site, which indicate our resident Gopher Tortoises have been busy expanding their population at the bank. When we established our Gopher Tortoise conservation bank back in 2009, we carefully

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Monitoring at Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank During the winter of 2010/2011 Westervelt Ecological Services planted over 9,000 plants at our Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank.  Tidal channel banks were planted with pole cuttings of willows (Salix lasiolepis, S. laevigata, S. lasiandra), Fremont cottonwood, Buttonwillow, and Oregon ash to accelerate near water cover.  Floodplain Riparian Habitat was

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Worker Environmental Awareness Program (WEAP) Its construction season here at Westervelt Ecological Services and with every construction project WES starts with a WEAP.  No, we aren’t passing around a box of Kleenex, WEAP stands for Worker Environmental Awareness Program.  It’s a program used to educate personnel about the existing on-site and surrounding biological, cultural and

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Capturing photo points on our mitigation banks is a useful way to highlight restoration success. The photos below were taken at Pensacola Bay Mitigation Bank where we are restoring hardwood and pine flatwood landscapes.  The top photos in each grouping were taken in 2008 and the bottom photos were taken in the spring of 2012.

Last weekend a friend and I took a kayak from the Cosumnes River Preserve, up the Lower Cosumnes River, and into the WES Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank.  Along the way we greeted fellow kayakers and stopped to chat with a couple fishermen on the bank of the river.  They had only been fishing a few

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