Living Shorelines – Horizontal is the New Vertical
How do I protect my waterfront property from erosion? Is a bulkhead stronger than a natural shoreline? The conventional solution to protecting a homeowners’ property was to build a bulkhead as a [...]
It’s Soil: Not Dirt
“How on God’s green earth did you figure THAT out from poking in the dirt?” our client, Mr. Robbins, asked after we located the wetland line on his five-acre property. We had spent the morning [...]
Koontz: Practical impact on wetland mitigation
The Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District (Koontz) decision has had a big impact on wetland mitigation projects in the state of Florida. The Supreme Court of the United States [...]
The Beauty in the Burn: Controlled Winter Burn Yields a Stunning Autumn Wildflower Season
In January of 2015 I found myself staring speechless as a wall of flames roared away from me across a property scheduled for burn management. “How can anything grow after this scorching [...]