One PA-licensed firm that engineers, permits, and restores your land

Our primary service area covers northeastern Pennsylvania, including Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Pike, Monroe, Susquehanna, Wyoming, and surrounding counties. Most projects are within a half-day's drive of our base, which keeps mobilization costs low for clients.

Greg holds a Pennsylvania pesticide applicator license and is licensed statewide, so projects anywhere in PA are within scope. Pesticide application work is limited to Pennsylvania — there is no reciprocity with neighboring states — but consulting, design, and non-chemical field services can be scoped on a case-by-case basis for sites near the PA border.

Contact us to discuss your site's location. If you are in NE PA, we can typically schedule a free on-site assessment within a few weeks.

Yes. Greg brings 40 years of experience as a Pennsylvania engineer and conservationist. He holds Pennsylvania pesticide applicator certification in five commercial categories: Category 5 (Forest Pest), Category 6 (Ornamental and Shade Tree), Category 9 (Aquatic), Category 10 (Right-of-Way and Weeds), and Category 23 (Park and School Grounds). These categories cover the full range of invasive-species and vegetation-management work we perform on commercial and municipal sites.

The firm is fully insured and PA-licensed. Greg's engineering and conservation background means projects are designed to regulatory standards from the start, reducing change-order risk for municipal and government clients who carry their own compliance obligations.

We are happy to provide certificates of insurance and copies of applicable licenses on request prior to contract execution.

We do not publish standard rate sheets because restoration cost varies significantly by site conditions, species present, access, treatment method, and required follow-up cycles. Pricing is structured per acre, per day, or per project depending on scope — whatever aligns best with how your organization tracks and budgets for land management.

The process starts with a free on-site assessment. We walk the property, identify the target species and site constraints, and scope the work before any quote is prepared. That assessment gives you enough information to take a proposal to your board, grants committee, or finance department.

After the assessment we provide a written proposal with a clear scope of work. There are no surprise line items — if conditions change materially during execution, we discuss it before proceeding.

Our clients are municipalities, commercial landowners, government agencies, conservation organizations, utilities, solar developers, and schools. Common projects include township-owned riparian corridors, stormwater basin restoration, utility right-of-way maintenance, post-construction solar site establishment, and managed natural areas on school or park properties.

We work with clients whose sites carry regulatory or compliance obligations — MS4 permit holders, Chapter 102/105 permit sites, and properties subject to conservation easements — as well as landowners who simply want to convert degraded land to productive, low-maintenance native habitat.

We do not serve residential clients. Our minimum project scale and licensing structure are designed for institutional and commercial land management, not homeowner lots.

Yes. Greg's engineering background means he understands Pennsylvania's Chapter 102 (Erosion and Sediment Control) and Chapter 105 (Dam Safety and Waterway Management) regulations as well as NPDES and MS4 permit requirements. We design projects to those standards and can prepare or support permit applications as part of the scope.

For municipal MS4 permit holders, our restoration designs can directly satisfy Best Management Practice (BMP) documentation requirements, providing defensible records for DEP reporting. For Chapter 105 work in or adjacent to waterways, we design to avoid triggering unnecessary permit thresholds and manage the application process when a permit is required.

The advantage of working with one firm that designs, permits, and self-performs is that nothing gets lost in translation between the engineer, the applicant, and the contractor. We carry the project through each stage.

Grant funding is commonly available for native habitat restoration in Pennsylvania. Programs that have funded similar work include Pennsylvania Growing Greener, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) watershed grants, county conservation district cost-share programs, and various USDA and EPA pass-through funding streams. Eligibility and award cycles vary by program and applicant type.

We are familiar with how grant reviewers evaluate restoration proposals. During scoping we can structure the project narrative, species targets, and measurable outcomes to align with the language grant programs typically require. For clients pursuing a Pollution Reduction Plan (PRP) or similar compliance pathway, we can scope work that satisfies both the grant criteria and the regulatory obligation simultaneously.

We recommend discussing grant timing early in the process. Some programs require a signed scope of work or cost estimate before application; others fund only projects that have not yet broken ground. A free site assessment gives you the documentation you need to move a grant application forward.

A site assessment is a free, on-site visit where we walk your property with you before any contract or quote is prepared. Greg evaluates existing vegetation, identifies invasive species, notes site access and hydrology, and flags any regulatory considerations that will affect the design or permit pathway.

The assessment produces a shared understanding of what the site needs and what a realistic scope of work looks like. You leave with enough information to brief stakeholders, apply for grant funding, or issue an internal approval — without having spent anything yet.

There is no obligation after the assessment. If our approach is a good fit, we prepare a written proposal. If the project is outside our scope or capacity, we will tell you that directly and, where we can, point you toward other resources.

We are a single integrated firm — Greg designs the project, manages the permitting, and performs the field work himself. There is no hand-off to a subcontractor and no markup layer between the engineer and the crew doing the treatment.

This matters for quality and accountability. The person who assessed your site and signed the permit application is the same person applying herbicide, installing erosion controls, or seeding the native plant community. If something unexpected comes up in the field, it gets resolved immediately rather than routed through a chain of contractors.

It also matters for cost. Self-performance eliminates the overhead associated with subcontractor coordination and margin stacking. Clients get a tighter proposal and a single point of contact from assessment through project close-out.