Recent Projects and Endorsements

"For five years, Raven has provided almost every enviromental service imaginable for this property and working with them has been both a pleasure and cost-effective." Kathy Hutson, Manager, Cook’s Branch Conservancy.

Montgomery County, Texas — Raven is the prime environmental consultant for a 5,600-acre property. Since 2000, Raven services and products have included:

• Endangered Species Habitat Conservation Plan and Safe Harbor with baseline population, including habitat enhancement and annual population monitoring, banding, and translocations.
• Natural Resource Management Plan including ecological restoration, select timber harvest schedules, and a long-term prescribed burning planning and implementation - all with GIS support.
• Significant cost-share grant funding from state and federal sources in support of ecological restoration.
• Restricted-Use and Open-Space Tax Abatement Plan capturing significant annual savings.
• Native Grass restoration on 250-acres of improved pastureland.
• Sustainable white-tailed deer management program including annual census counts, data collection, analysis, and annual harvest recommendations.

Waller County, Texas — Raven is the prime environmental consultant for a 530-acre property. Since 2001, Raven services and products provided have included a Post Oak Savannah Ecosystem Restoration Plan with GIS support and cost-share funding, and also extensive midstory control utilizing prescribed fire and mechanical mulching.

Bastrop County, Texas — Raven has conducted a fixed-radius plot, point-sample timber inventory on two properties to establish land-use baseline information for Restricted Use and Open Space Tax Plans.

National Forsets and Grasslands of Texas — Raven has managed and produced more than thirty NEPA compliance documents for projects occuring on all four National Forests in Texas.

National Forests, Louisiana — Raven has executed endangered species habitat improvements and management contracts on the Kisatchie and Vernon Districts.

Fort Polk Military Installation, Louisiana — Raven has collected more than 2,000 high-precision location coordinates at Fort Polk, and managed the spatial data to client specifications while producing more than 300 quality, color maps. Raven continues to conduct scientific research involving several endangered or rare species and is conducting ongoing botanical research on forty permenant vegetation sampling plots.

Ozark National Forest, Arkansas — Raven has provided NEPA compliance services for extensive seismic exploration activities on the Ozark National Forest.

Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas — Raven has conducted extensive botanical surveys for endangered plant species and produced the appropriate NEPA compliance documents for seismic exploration projects.

Texas and Louisiana — Raven has provided the research support, inventories, and assessments necessary to write endangered species Habitat Conservation Plans in both Texas and Louisiana for large industrial forest landowners. These projects also involved extensive GIS, GPS, and mapping support.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Statewide — Raven established and sampled permenant vegetation monitoring plots and also conducted plant inventories within previously established plots at twelve Texas State Parks located in five ecoregions.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Texas — Raven has conducted bald eagle nesting surveys and also provided boundary maintenance and monumentation services on several lakes in Texas.

"Raven has provided enviromental compliance and project managemnt services for us on several National Forest wells and pipelines – they know their business and deliver on-time." Richard Hughart, Jet Oil Producers, Inc.