National Park Service
We have worked alongside the National Park Service for many years, doing a range of projects such as, forestry mowing property around the C&O canal, and tree planting at various local park locations.
NRCS: The Natural Resources Conservation Service
Sustainable worked with many local landowners to bring us onto their property and provide tree plantings. The trees that were planted were to help with erosion control, riparian buffers, or as a more visually aesthetic piece to the property.
The Nature Conservatory MD/DC Chapter
Sustainable has been working with The Nature Conservatory MD/DC Chapter since 2006. We have provided training and education services and a suite of prescribed fire services aimed at helping TNC achieve the fire goals for their properties in Maryland.
Army Corps of Engineers
The Army Corps of Engineers hired us to lay down prescribed fire in the forests surrounding Raystown Lake. Doing the prescribed fire helps to reduce hazardous fuels, so that in the case that weather conditions get dry and hot enough, a wildfire will not begin within the forest.
USFWS
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services hired our crew to treat invasive species on a wetland, to help preserve the native species.
Central Pine Barrens Commission
We travelled up to Long Island, NY to work with the Central Pine Barrens and Land Use Ecological to reduce the hazardous fuels that are within the Pine Barrens. In the dry heat of the summer, a wildfire could start if these harzardous fuels were not properly removed. We have worked with four different locations, and counting, on Long Island to provide prescribed fire services to protect the communities around the Pine Barrens.
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PA Game Commission
The Pennslyvania Game Commission had multiple land management projects for us, inlcuding: forestry mowing, establishing a meadow, and tree planting.
Forestry for the Bay Program
Sustainable Solutions consulted to the Forestry for the Bay program to help it achieve the goal of increasing stewardship activities on small forested parcels. This included presenting “Carbon sequestration and Markets” at a Forestry for the Bay Carbon workshop in 2009.
USFS BMP Protocol Pilot & Burn Boss
Sustainable Solutions was contracted as project manager to implement a pilot of the USFS BMP Protocol in Maryland. The year long pilot project collected valuable timber harvest BMP monitoring data in Maryland, and served in the development of the U.S Forest Service, Northeastern Area, BMP monitoring protocol. Sustainable was also contracted to serve as a Burn Boss on a 110 acre prescribed burn located on the Chesapeake Forest Project lands.
Prescribed Fire Plan for the Farm at Sunnyside
Sustainable Solutions was contracted in 2009 to develop a prescribed fire plan for several of the grassland management units on the Farm at Sunnyside, a 400 acre organic farm located in Rappahanock, Virginia. In addition to growing organic crops, the Farm at Sunnyside is also being managed as a premier conservation property focused on implementing stewardship practices that benefit water quality, and wildlife and pollinator habitat.
Landserver & Bay Bank Projects
Sustainable began working with the Pinchot Institute in 2006, in close collaboration on the development of Landserver and the Bay Bank. As our primary project partner in these efforts, the Pinchot Institute has been serving as the non profit lead in helping to deliver these exciting tools to the landowners in Chesapeake Bay watershed and beyond.
Prescribed Fire for Persimmon Tree Farm
Sustainable Solutions was approached by the owners at Persimmon Tree Farm to conduct a prescribed fire operation for 31 acres of warm season grass. The site was a challenging one. Steep slopes, combined with multiple fall lines, proximity to woods, and a heavily accumulation of dead fuels (the site had not been burned for over 5 years) made this a challenging site to work with.
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