Introduction

Air Quality

Environmental Management

Environmental Permitting

Mercury-Related Services

Site Assessment & Remediation

Sustainable Landscape Architecture
— Introduction

Water Resources Management

Sustainable Landscape Architecture:
Natural Resource Inventories and Management Plans

With development pressure mounting and invasive species on the rise, natural areas have become both precious and precarious. By identifying and mapping open-space types, natural resource inventories (NRIs) help agencies and municipalities understand, prioritize, and protect their resources. Inventory data can help inform land-use planning and development, clarify the area's value of wildlife habitat or water quality, and point out degraded areas and management problems.

A natural resources management plan uses NRI data and other research to recommend ways to preserve, restore, and maintain irreplaceable open spaces.

Barr’s diverse team of landscape ecologists and biologists has spent countless hours in prairies, wetlands, woodlands, and forests and is experienced in the Minnesota Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS), the standard method for conducting NRIs in the state. Our expert writers, graphic artists, GIS technicians, and web designers make sure the data is presented clearly and concisely.

Read about the following projects:

Denmark Township NRI and Stewardship Recommendations
Mendota Heights Natural Resources Management Plan
Eden Prairie NRI and Management Plan
Bluff Creek Corridor Feasibility Study 

Sustainable Landscape Architecture services:

Master Planning | Ecologically Sensitive Site Design | Native-Plant-Community Restoration | Natural Resource Inventories and Management Plans | Ecological Stormwater Management | Education and Interpretation