Biodiversity Services Financing Biodiversity

In most discussions concerning the value of natural biodiversity services The topic of how to value what nature provides is well covered, but when it comes to placing actual monetary value on an acre, or a million acres of forest or wetland the topic is much less traveled. The safest figure is this: Whatever it [...]

December 24, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Biodiversity Services, financing biodiversity  One Comment

Biodiversity Services Biodiversity Information

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Biodiversity Services Biodiversity Information | Burns Environmental
Burns Environmental specializes in environmental information and services related to conserving native habitats and related biodiversity issues.В  The services we provide involve the identification and elimination of non native species in local settings on residential, and commercial scales, and the establishment of dominate native species in the area. [...]

August 30, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity Services, Habitat Management, Infrastructure services  No Comments

Environmental Services | Preserving Biodiversity

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Environmental Services | Preserving Biodiversity
One of the often overlooked areas of vegetation management, and it’s related environmental services, is it’s role in preserving the environment through preserving biodiversity. The biggest threat to our environment is the loss of native species, to species which are not native to our area. Good vegetation management practices help [...]

September 28, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Infrastructure, Infrastructure management, Infrastructure services, Infrastucture, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management  No Comments

Infrastructure Services | Protecting Infrastructure

Infrastructure Services | Protecting Infrastructure
What is infrastructure?
The Infrastructure is what we rely on to get the things we need to carry on business and daily life. It includes our transportation lines such as roadways, waterways, water supply, and rail lines, our industrial sites such as tank farms, and pole yards, and our utility lines, such [...]

September 28, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity Services, Environment, Infrastructure management, Infrastructure services, Infrastucture, Preserving biodiversity, Vegetation management  No Comments

Value of Natural Biodiversity Services

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Biodiversity can seem to be a complicated issue. The seeming complexity can be furthered by oversimplification leading to misunderstanding at one point, and the exaggeration of the complexity at another. Nowhere is this more evident than in the valuation of biodiversity services.
Biodiversity services, that is, natural biodiversity services as opposed to human efforts to [...]

September 28, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity Services, Biodiversity and pest control, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Invasive species, Native habitat, Natural biodiversity services, Nature, Pest control, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services  One Comment

Biodiversity Services

Biodiversity Services
Preserving biodiversity may be the major ecological and environmental issue of this century. Whether it is in the worlds rainforest regions, the Pacific Islands, Europe, Asia, Africa, or right here on the North American continent, in East Texas. Any species that cannot continue to exist due to fire, chainsaw, or even other, invasive plants, [...]

September 21, 2008  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Green services, Habitat Management, Non native plants  One Comment

Environmental Services |Exotic Vegetation Management

Environmental Services: Exotic Vegetation Management
It’s a fact of life.
Plants move. They migrate from one area to another using a bewildering variety of locomotion methods. Sometimes they travel by hitch hiking on people or animals, sometimes by wind or water, but travel they do.
If there is an invasive plant in your area, the chances are pretty [...]

September 7, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Habitat, Habitat Management, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Wildlife habitat  No Comments

East Texas Environmental Services | Pests and Predators

Tyler East Texas Environmental Services: Pests and Predators
Even in the best of habitats, unwanted insects and predators can become a problem. Although a well constructed, well managed habitat, using best practices will lower the chances of unwanted infestations, they do sometimes happen. For such cases, we offer pest prevention information, and services as well as [...]

September 6, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Backyard habitat, Biodiversity Services, Bugs and weeds, Environmental services, Green pest control, Native habitat, Pests, Predators  One Comment

Aquatic Biodiversity: Protecting Lakes

Aquatic Biodiversity: Protecting Lakes

With water shortages predicted for parts of the United States, planners are scrambling to figure out just exactly what our water needs will be for the future, and just exactly how to deal with them.

Preserving what we have.

One thing is for certain, we need to preserve the viability of [...]

September 2, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Non native plants  No Comments