ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS GROUP LLC Voice: (406) 777-1881; FAX: (406)777-1883 115 West Third Street, Suite 210, Stevensville, MT 59870 USA

Scope of Consulting Services
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• Site Remediation, Reclamation, Restoration, and Revegetation
• Inventory, Assessment, Measurement, Monitoring, Mapping, and Planning
• Management Planning and Technical Writing
• Data Management, Analysis, and Reporting
• Legal Support Services
• Program and Project Management

Site Remediation, Reclamation, Restoration, and Revegetation

• Services related to CERCLA (Superfund) activities, including:
• Screening Studies
• Site Characterization
• Ecological Risk Assessment
• Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study
• Record of Decision
• Remedial Design
• Remedial Action
• Operation and Maintenance
• Planning and design for restoration and reclamation of disturbed lands (based on site vegetation potential) to restore natural functions, including sites on:
• Mined land
• Grazed land
• Land disturbed by timber harvest and/or fire
• Land disturbed by pipelines and utility infrastructures
• Land disturbed by roadway and other transportation corridor construction
• Land disturbed by military activities
• Degraded streambanks and lakeshores
• Contaminated site remediation and restoration; including:
• Contaminated site analysis
• Biological fate and transport studies
• Remedial design
• Contamination removal
• Restoration planning
• Native plant revegetation, based on site vegetation potential
• Post implementation site monitoring

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Inventory, Assessment, Measurement, Monitoring, Mapping, and Planning

• Detailed riparian and/or wetland site inventory (flora, fauna, and physical site characteristics), with functional health assessment of:
• Lotic sites (streams and rivers)
• Lentic sites (still water wetlands)
• Stand-alone functional health assessment of:
• Lotic sites (streams and rivers)
• Lentic sites (still water wetlands)
• Land type mapping based on vegetation, surface hydrology, land uses, etc.
• Plant population measuring and monitoring, including:
• Data collection
• Processing
• Analysis
• Interpretation
• Reporting
• Ecological site classification based on natural vegetation and site potential
• Restoration-oriented vegetation field research
• Determination of Functionally Effective Wetland Area (FEWA)
• Floral and faunal sampling
• Hydrology-related studies including:
• Channel and streamflow surveys
• Water quality monitoring/TMDL assessment
• Rosgen Level 1-IV assessments
• Pfankuch stream health assessments
• Watershed assessment/modeling
• Equivalent clearcut analyses (ECAs)
• Hydrograph development and interpretation
• Sediment transport assessment
• Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) reporting
• Soils studies including:
• Soil sampling and mapping
• Soils analysis
• Assessment of environmental impacts of heavy metals/contaminants
• Soil amendment prescriptions
• Restoration planning at ecosystem, watershed, and site-specific scales including:
• Revegetation prescriptions, planting palettes and planting designs
• Seeding specifications
• Invasive plant species (weeds) management and control
• Herbivory control
• Irrigation prescriptions
• Stream stabilization designs
• Bioengineering designs
• Natural wetland design and creation
• Treatment wetland design and creation
• Monitoring methods
• Maintenance protocols
• Development of engineer’s estimates/cost assessments
• Long-term monitoring

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Management Planning and Technical Writing

• Environmental management and compliance
• Writing site specific, goal oriented, land management plans and best management practices
• Technical document writing
• Permitting assistance

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Data Management, Analysis, and Reporting

• Natural resource data management, analysis, and web-based data delivery service, including:
• Database design and application
• Data entry, analysis, summary, and reporting
• Interactive client database maintenance
• Internet web serving (hosting—publicly accessible or password secure)
• Advanced ecological data analysis and modeling

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Legal Support Services

• Natural resource damage assessment
• Restoration costing
• Expert witness testimony

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Program and Project Management

• Environmental compliance oversight
• Development and oversight of technical teams
• Remediation/restoration construction oversight

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