Do you want to monitor for invasive plants and insects without completing a full management plan? Are you a landowner that lives away from your property in New England? Do you need someone to monitor your property for erosion concerns, blowdowns, or unauthorized access concerns?
Ecological Land Management & Stewardship (abbreviated here to ELMS), offers monitoring that is separate from inventories or management plans.
ELMS carries expertise in identifying common invasive plants like Japanese knotweed, invasive barberry, bittersweet, invasive honeysuckle, common buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, Norway maple, Russian olive, autumn olive, black locust, and coltsfoot. This monitoring provides landowners with a visualization of the presence or absence of invasive species on their land and a mapped geo-referenced extent of these populations. ELMS also offers comprehensive vegetative surveys for landowners worried about other less common invasive or exotic species.
ELMS also monitors for invasive forest pests like balsam woolly adelgid, hemlock woolly adelgid, red pine scale, emerald ash borer, sugar maple borer, forest tent caterpillar, spongey moth (formerly known as gypsy moth), beech leaf disease, or white pine blister rust.
ELMS can also monitor for landowners who are not on their land often for basic monitoring. This service is helpful for landowners after events like large windstorms, ice storms, floods, or large rainstorms. To check on lands to assess damages associated with erosion, flooding, or wind throw. ELMS also monitors for unauthorized access issues such as unauthorized ATV use or dumping.
Ecological Land Management and Stewardship 