40th Environmental Permitting Summer School

Over ten years of working in Florida’s upland and wetland environments as an arborist and ecologist in Southwest Florida, with a specialization in botany.  Experience includes state and federal wetland permitting, wetland delineation, agency jurisdictional determinations, wetland mitigation analysis, vegetation monitoring, vegetation surveys, wetland mitigation plans, wetland restoration, exotic vegetation management, protected species surveys, species-specific surveys, biological assessments, mitigation bank permitting, water quality and biological monitoring in marine and estuarine waters. Proficient in species-specific surveys and permitting for the American bald eagle, Audubon’s crested caracara, Eastern indigo snake, everglades mink, gopher tortoise, Florida bonneted bat, Florida scrub jay, Florida panther, red-cockaded woodpecker, sand skink, and listed plant species. Extensive knowledge of the flora of Florida.