Ecological Services

For greenfield development projects or expansion of existing sites or facilities, ecological evaluations play a critical role.

Does your chosen site impinge on a jurisdictional waterway? Does it impact threatened or endangered species? Our ecology team is ready to answer these and more questions to guide your overall project strategy and provide technical expertise for your permitting requirements.

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Why Choose HHNT for Ecological Services?

We Do Things Differently

All you have to do is ask around; you’ll soon hear how HHNT is different. We provide you with a single point of contact that responds quickly. We lean into a challenge, and we approach every single project with the same level of unrivaled intensity.

We Are Committed to Environmental Responsibility

Our role as your partner is to help you succeed, while accounting for protected natural resources. When our ecology team is boots-on-the-ground, they are 100% invested in ensuring that the fieldwork informing the rest of the project is thorough, accurate, and reliable.

We Know Ecological Services

Our team understands the level of attention required for tasks such as aquatic resource delineations and endangered species surveys and its role in accounting for those resources and ensuring the overall success of your project.

We Have the Hard Conversation

When environmental impediments on the project are identified, we’ll always tell you what you need to hear when you need to hear it – and then get busy coming up with a solution. There may be a threatened species that cannot be relocated, an undesirable amount of wetland/stream impact, or another environmental impediment to the project. We’ll always tell you what you need to hear when you need to hear it – and then get busy coming up with a solution.

Ecological Services Offered by HHNT

Some of the most stringent environmental regulations concern the regulatory oversight of wetlands and streams that flow into the jurisdictional Waters of the United States (WOTUS). Amid the ever-changing regulatory landscape surrounding WOTUS, HHNT tracks and advises our clients on the latest interpretations of these regulations and helps ensure that projects remain compliant.

Successful mitigation planning requires a strategic approach, whether you are procuring credits from the marketplace for a Section 404 impact permit or developing your project mitigation site. HHNT has developed, permitted, and constructed permittee responsible mitigation sites (PRM) and commercial compensatory stream and wetland mitigation banks to offset environmental impacts on a wide range of projects. Whether your project requires purchasing mitigation credits from the marketplace, requires a small preservation site, or is a commercial stream and wetland mitigation bank covering thousands of acres, we will design and develop a mitigation plan that meets the project and permitting requirements to ensure project success.

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Everything Starts With Boots on the Ground: Thorough Ecological Services

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HHNT is always looking for passionate, collaborative, hardworking engineers, ecologists, and environmental scientists to join our team. If you’re interested in working on the most challenging engineering projects alongside the absolute best in the industry, visit our Careers page to learn more.

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