Ecoplans

Established in 1970, Ecoplans Limited provides consulting services in the natural sciences, environmental planning, environmental management and environmental impact assessment. Ecoplans Limited pioneered in the integration of the natural sciences with professional disciplines such as land-use and transportation planning, landscape architecture, engineering and land management. In recent years, Ecoplans has expanded its broad base of expertise in ecology and environmental planning to include professionals in landscape architecture and water resource engineering. We continue to emphasize the maintenance of high quality technical skills, along with the formulation of innovative, cost-effective approaches to dealing with environmental issues. For many years, Ecoplans Limited has advocated an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to addressing environmental concerns. We strive to ensure that the best fit between people and nature is achieved in terms of optimal designs that allow for the conservation and management of natural features, while at the same time recognizing the economic realities of the 1990's and beyond. Our team of professional and technical staff provides the broad base of technical knowledge and practical experience needed to deal appropriately with environmental issues within today's environmental planning framework. We are committed to maintaining a close working relationship with our clients and with other members of the project team. Consulting services are provided to a diverse range of both public and private sector clients. Our corporate experience extends to all phases of land use planning and environmental assessment, ranging from initial concept development, policy formulation and peer reviews, to detailed inventories and impact assessments, and finally to construction supervision and post-construction monitoring. We develop detailed management strategies to ensure the maintenance of natural features in a changing landscape; these range from fisheries compensation plans for stream crossings to natural heritage systems for entire watersheds or planning jurisdictions. Our projects encompass everything from relatively small single-factor studies to complex multi-factor impact assessments for major utility and transportation corridors and large scale area developments. Our professional staff are experienced in assessing the significance of natural communities such as streams, lakes, wetlands and forests through an understanding of their associated features, functions and dependencies. This knowledge and ability is essential if land use changes are to be planned and designed in a manner that is appropriate to a particular natural setting. Ecoplans Limited takes pride in our ability to maintain professional integrity across a broad client and project base by emphasizing objectivity and by taking clearly defined, defensible approaches to our projects.