Rangeland Reclamation Consulting Services
Eastern Slopes Rangeland Seeds Ltd, located near Calgary, Alberta, have been reclamation consultants to governments and industry since 1980. These environmental assessments are essential to the success of reclamation projects and well the being of crown leases.Rangeland management planning
Once the inventory has been completed ESRS can provide comprehensive plans for managing wildlife, livestock, rare species, weeds and can include creating comprehensive management strategies in order to allow for a successful project. We are careful to take into account the project goals in order to make sure those goals are encompassed in any recommendations that we make.Environmental Assessments
These assessments encompass the same techniques listed in the rangeland inventory section but are more focused on conservation needs as well as industrial development. We have a standard package of assessment tools that give comprehensive information on rare and weedy species, plant community health and composition and the management history of the site. This information can be utilized for wildlife habitat enhancement, oil and gas management planning and restoration efforts in order to protect and rehabilitate native ecosystems. See rangeland Inventory for more information or contact ESRS
Environmental Pre-site Assessments
ESRS provides comprehensive environmental pre-site assessments for restoration and reclamation projects. This is critical to determine what weeds if any will become problematic, if rare species will be impacted, what the environmental and climatic conditions of a site are. It is also critical to understand the species composition of the surrounding site in order to achieve proper restoration.It is also important to review vegetation inventories to determine if the quality of site management strategies will negatively impact the successfully restoration of the site.
Environmental Economic Impact Assessments
Understanding the cost of management decisions is important and ESRS can give estimated costs of different management strategies as well as the cost due to loss of production, species diversity and assess the best course of action both economically and environmentally.Restoration and Reclamation Monitoring programs
When reclamation and restoration is necessary especially in the oil and gas industry as well as in other large industrial developments such as mines ESRS can provide comprehensive management strategies and monitoring programs to assess the success of restoration. At the same time these programs are built to adapt to the results of the monitoring program. We will suggest changes to management as monitoring suggests and can produce comprehensive results on the success of the project upon completionStatistical Analysis of Plant Communities
As it is important to be able to assess scientifically whether management is actually having an effect or if a treatment is working ESRS has the ability to run statistical analysis to determine success as well as to give confidence to the findings.Please direct consulting enquiries to Consulting@easternslopesrangelandseeds.com
or Call us at 1-403-637-2473
Publications
ESRS has the capability to produce quality publications for the needs of almost any project. We can publish at industry and producer levels, providing reports, posters, handouts, pamphlets and other types of written media.Common Plants of the Western Rangelands
"Common Plants of the Western Rangelands" by Kathy Tannas can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to learn more about common rangeland species. These books may be purchased by writing to Kathy@easternslopesrangelandseeds.comTeaching
We believe in the education of others and at ESRS we will provide training to professionals and interested parties as to how to perform assessments, plant identification as well as other unique information necessary to the industry.Two Day Plant Identification Course
Our next plant identification course will be in June 2011