North East Ecological Services
Dr. D Scott Reynolds
PROJECTS and CLIENTS
Over the past 20 years, NEES has been involved with research and collaborative projects throughout North America. Below is a short summary that attempts to capture some of the diversity of our services and clients, and the creativity of our solutions.
NEW BOSTON AIR FORCE STATION
New Boston, NH
NEES has been working with the New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) since 2002 to document the bat community and research the ecology of endangered species at the facility. Through seven separate projects, NEES has conducted mist-nets surveys, acoustic monitoring, radiotelemetry, and modelling to understand the roosting and habitat requirements of rare and endangered species. NEES has developed new research techniques (ATV-based acoustic transects and long-term winter acoustic monitoring) to answer questions specific to this site. And true to its' academic roots, NEES has used these data to generate distributional models and published three peer-reviewed papers relating to data collected at this site.
TORYS LAW FIRM LLP
Toronto, Ontario Canada
As wind energy development started to take hold in Ontario, Torys LLP law firm reached out to NEES to help them understand the potential impact of project development on bats. As a major law firm in the province of Ontario, Torys represents a wide diversity of clients and wanted to offer them the best and most knowledgeable representation. NEES has worked with Torys on multiple projects and provided both written and oral testimony to the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal.
MAPLE RIDGE WIND PROJECT
Lewis County, NY
The Maple Ridge Wind Project is one of the largest wind development sites in North America, with 197 turbines located across three rural towns in upstate New York. NEES was initially brought in to work on the Maple Ridge Wind Project site as a collaborative expert with another consulting firm. Although there were several large environmental consultants already working on the project, the management at Maple Ridge knew this was a high profile project and wanted the best expertise they could retain. NEES helped Maple Ridge address potential bat mortality issues, conducted endangered species surveys on the project site, and provided both post-construction monitoring to confirm that the project site was having no impact on the local bat population. Because of the scale of the project and the innovative techniques employed by NEES, these studies were published in a peer-review research journal (Journal of Wildlife Management) so that other biologists could benefit from the knowledge gained at this project site.