If you represent a municipality acquiring land to augment an existing open space inventory or a property owner whose desire it is to preserve land in perpetuity but are having trouble understanding how to implement a best management plan or navigate through an endless litany of land use regulation than let the professionals at BRE help you develop and implement a Conservation Management Plan (CMP) - a plan that will allow future generations to passively enjoy open space and learn from its inherent value. BRE has designed and overseen numerous CMP’s, aiding clients in proper stewardship methods necessary to conserve open space into the foreseeable future. Like wetland and floodplain evaluation a CMP starts with determining the history, geology, hydrology, and ecological positioning of the open space under consideration within the context of the greater landscape. Becoming intimate with the landscape through personal connection and assessment will follow -in other words a complete in-field evaluation. Our priority is to first try and understand your past connection with the land. Defining the landscapes history, both culturally and ecologically, becomes our basis for the development of a CMP. As with all reviews, projects, and property under BRE’s inspection we value land as an entity burrowed from past generations, utilized in the present, and stewarded for the future. When designing a CMP’s nurturing relevant biodiversity whenever and wherever possible is the our number one priority. Services we Provide
Under this Heading:
(1) Background
history/ due-diligence study:
a. Deed
restriction search; b. Past
and Present Land Use Survey/ analysis;
c. Soil
survey/analysis;
d. Wetland
hydrology analysis;
e. Archaeological
significance presence/absence.
(2) Deer
Population Analysis:
a. Deer
management applicability studies;
b. Deer
exclosure design and maintenance.
(3) Trail
Creation Design:
a.
Permits
necessary for trails, structures, signage, etc.;
b. Oversee
and implement trail creation using appropriatevendors.
(4) Ecological
Study/Design/ Implementations:
a. Floristic
analysis/ native and non-native species inventory;
b. Native
plant recommendations / overseeing project design and implementation; c. Threatened
and endangered species habitat design and maintenance;
d. Wildlife
management – habitat design and maintenance or general wildlife species
inherent to site.
(5) In consideration of
1-4 above create a formal CMP that clearly delineates goals, priorities,
permits necessary, project costs, potential funding sources, time frame to
completion, yearly maintenance schedule, etc. for your target project.
If
you like the idea of preserving and enhancing land but you don’t know where to
start let the experts at BRE do it for you. We can design a strategy that
considers your goals and help you with all the administrative work necessary to
acquire applicable permits and funds to see the project through to completion.
Many programs exist to public and private entities willing to forgo their rights
to develop land in exchange for tax relief and the funding help necessary to
implement a CMP.
 Black-throated Blue Warbler (B 16) |     White Breasted Nuthatch (B 13)   State Threatened Barred Owl (Strix varia) (B 14)  Purple Martin Gourd's (B 15)  Stream Bank / Vegetative Plug Installation |
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