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Plum Hill Ecological Services has been busy over the last eight years and we are excited to keep growing and working on ecological or environmental restoration, enhancement, and preservation projects inour tri-state region.

Plum Hill has worked many organizations over the last eight years and several are highlighted below:

  • RED STONE FARM WETLAND MITIGATION BANK – working as project director, Plum Hill is responsible for design, vegetation and hydrology maintenance and monitoring, project reporting to regulatory agencies, mitigation planning, GIS mapping, and leading native plant installations.
  • THE HILLSIDE TRUST – Plum Hill Ecological Services has providing wetland consulting, invasive species management, GIS mapping, and restoration services for the land trust's preserve systems.
  • Various Stream and Wetland Delineations – Plum Hill has worked with various project developers in our region through conducting stream and wetland delieations, generating GIS maps, ecological quality assessments, and compiling reports for those streams and wetlands delineated.
     
  • Highlands Nature Sanctuary, Arc of Appalachia – Plum Hill has worked with the Arc and Red Stone Farm on developing conservation easements, as well as assisting in management of invasive plant species to tthe Arc's preserve system.
  • NKU RESEARCH STATION COURSE INSTRUCTOR – Plum Hill provided courses at the NKU Research Station for professional development in the field of wetland science. Couses taught included regulatory wetland delineationand wetland plant identification.
  • THE NATURE CONSERVANCY– Plum Hill has worked with The Nature Conservancy with on the front lines restoration preojects, which included vegetation management and consulting.
  • Boone County Parks, Boone County, KY – Plum Hill has conducted floristic quality and botanical surveys, as well as GIS map productions for Boone County Parks, which include the Boone Cliffs Nature Preserve, Dinsmore Woods Nature Preserve, Gunpowder Creek Nature Park, Waller-Stephenson Mill Park, and Gunpowder Valley Nature Preserve.
  • The Boone And Campbell Conservancy – Plum Hill conducted and submitted Baseline or Current Conditions Reports for numerous conservation easements held with these local land trust organizations. Basline or Current Conditions Reports provide the Conservancies a ecological snapshot of the sites protected for perpituity, which aid in monitoring and document changes to the easement areas over time.
     
  • Campbell County Conservation District – Plum Hill has worked on invasive species management, GIS mapping, and project consulting for the St. Anne's and Hawthorned properties in Campbell County, KY.
     
  • Boone County Conservation District – Plum Hill has worked with the Boone County Conservation District on native plant installations on headwater stream enhancement projects and management of these areas.
     
  • City of Covington Parks and Recreation Department – Plum Hill has worked with the City of Covington on several invasive species management projects, which include the Devou back country trails and the Licking River Greenway.
     
  • BEHRINGHER-CRAWFORD MUSEUM – Plum Hill worked with the museum to develop, install, and manage a meadow and woodland edge native plant landscape throughout the NaturePlay area. In this outdoor NaturePlay playground children and adults can walk or run through these landscapes, learn about our native plants, view wildlife that utilizes the site, as well as touch, smell, and feel the variety of native plant species present .
     
  • Various Native Plant Landscaping Projects – Plum Hill has worked with regional landowners interested in creating native pollinator habitats, woodland restoration, and habitat enhancement projects.
     
  • Supplier of Native Seed and Plants – Plum Hill has provided native seed and plants through contract growing and for numerous projects throughout our region.

     

Click on the photograph below to view photos of some our projects