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Firm Profile

Practice Areas

Natural Resource Industries

Applied Ecosystem Services has extensive experience in assisting natural resource companies in agriculture (cattle ranching and confined animal feeding operations, nurseries, grass seed, irrigation districts), energy production and transmission (hydroelectric dams, gas turbine combined cycle co-generation plants, interstate transmission lines, geothermal power plants), forestry (logging, timber, and forest product companies), and mining (aggregate, coal, industrial minerals, metals).

The firm has helped these companies with permitting, legislation, and operating in environmentally sensitive areas.

Legislative and Judicial Support

Trade associations, lobbyists, and attorneys in private practice have called upon the technical expertise of Applied Ecosystem Services for written and oral testimony to Congress, state legislatures, and regulatory/resource agency staff. The technical staff has also provided expert witness support to attorneys defending clients in applications for permits and flooding downstream of client property.

The firm is noted by clients for outstanding expertise in:

  • Assembling primary and secondary source materials into an integrated whole.
  • Identifying critical details in project opposition's arguments, proposed legislation, and proposed regulations.
  • Succeeding in extremely challenging and contentious permitting situations by seeing solutions others missed.