Ecological Land Management and Stewardship
Offering wholistic stewardship to landowners
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Contact us with your land management & stewardship needs and goals. For a view of our offered services view our services catalog.
Understand
Understanding is the first step in ecological stewardship. Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) offers services for landowners to better understand their land and its condition. ELMS completes inventories, mapping, reporting, and other surveys with landowner goals in mind. ELMS collects this focused data to inform management for these goals. ELMS offers services such as: Forest Inventories, Mapping Services, Vegetative Surveys, Road and Trails System Reports, Forest Health Reports, and many other inventories, reports, and data collection services. View our services catalog for our services or reach out with your unique inventory, data collection project, mapping needs, or reporting needs and ELMS will work with you to get your project underway.
Plan
Planning is the second step in ecological stewardship. Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) with its multitude of services allows for planning that considers multiple different goals for land. ELMS management plans are multi-dimensional and consider all of a landowner’s goals. ELMS offers several planning services such as Forest Management Plans, Recreational Trail Plans, Rotational Mowing Plans, Climate Resiliency Plans, Tree and Shrub Planting Plans, and other ecological plans. ELMS creates forest management plans that meet and surpass the requirements for the current use program in NH. ELMS is a USDA NRCS certified Technical Service Provider for Forest Management Planning in New Hampshire. View the services catalog to see our ecological planning services.
Implement
Implementation is third step and is most effective when preceded by understanding and planning. Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS) provides several services to execute on your management goals. ELMS completes pre-commercial thinning and timber stand improvement, tree and shrub planting, mechanical invasive species removal, brush hogging, timber harvest consulting, hiking trail maintenance and creation, recreational signage creation, boundary line marking and many other implementation services. View the services catalog to see our implementation services or reach out with your unique stewardship needs.
Experience
ELMS offers expertise in a broad area of land management and stewardship. The owner of ELMS, Colby Fong, has experience working on a variety of projects. Colby has worked as the lead lands & conservation manager for a 10,000+ acre non-profit environmental organization. He learned trail building as a professional trail builder with nationally recognized trail building organizations and regularly maintains trails for clients, as well as volunteering on trail projects when he can. Colby has participated in collecting data for some of the largest forest health/climate inventories in the Northeast.
Colby also grew up working with and on small farms and woodlots. Colby has multiple years of experience writing forest and resource management plans for a diversity of landowners. He has experience creating a seamless mapping of property holdings for landowners, some of whom hold 65+ properties. He has experience completing inventories for state agencies and large private clients. What truly makes ELMS is unique its capacity to help landowners find the expert they need whether that is directly with ELMS or a referral to another qualified professional. Great project outcomes for anyone who contacts ELMS is our priority whether that is done with ELMS or elsewhere.
Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS)
From our blog
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Ecological Land Management and Stewardship takes on a Property Line Marking Project outside of Lancaster New Hampshire.
Ecological Land Management and Stewardship LLC (abbreviated hereafter as ELMS) recently completed a property line marking project for a client in the Lancaster, New Hampshire area. ELMS first reviewed the deeds and surveys found in the county records to understand the bounds of the property. Next, ELMS created a geo-referenced map of the property using…
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Ecological Land Management and Stewardship LLC’s owner Colby Fong helps the Eastman Community Woodland and Wildlife Committee establish the Headwaters Trail.
Owner of Ecological Land Management and Stewardship, Colby Fong, volunteered to help on a project to create a new trail in Eastman’s Northern Trail System. This new headwaters trail is a beautiful hike that connects two existing trails. Colby aided in the process as one of the sawyers on the project, clearing fallen trees on…
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Ecological Land Management and Stewardship plans and completes a volunteer planting of black walnut at NH Audubon’s Popple Island Wildlife Sanctuary
The owner of Ecological Land Management and Stewardship, Colby Fong, was formerly the Conservation Lands Manager for New Hampshire Audubon, a non-profit organization. New Hampshire Audubon contributes to protecting the environment for wildlife and people across the state of New Hampshire. Colby has stayed connected to New Hampshire Audubon after leaving their staff, to start…
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Ecological Land Management and Stewardship LLC helps clean up Piscataqoug River Park
On April 26th, Ecological Land Management and Stewardship’s (abbreviated hereafter as ELMS) Owner, Colby Fong, volunteered with Friends of Piscataquog River Park. The Piscataquog River Park has a trail system that many people in Manchester are not aware of. The trails are sandwiched in between the ball fields at the park and the bike path.…
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Colby Fong joins the Eastman Community Association’s Woodlands & Wildlife Committee as a volunteer.
Ecological Land Management and Stewardship’s Owner, Colby Fong, joined the Eastman Community Association’s Woodlands and Wildlife Committee as a volunteer, and is giving his time to help this committee steward the forests contained in the Eastman Community in Grantham, New Hampshire. The Eastman Community is centered around ideals of responsible & sustainable recreation and engagement…
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