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Protecting Species During Industrial Site Revitalization

Posted December 21, 2022 | Sustainability | Amplify
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Christine J. Miller, Benjamin J. Langey, and Scott E. Bush take innovation to the broken places on planet Earth by showing the opportunities for collaboration when endangered species colonize ecosystems on contaminated lands. Protected status need not be an obstacle to development if stakeholders engage in honest dialogue and science supports proposed interventions.
About The Author
Christine Miller
Christine J. Miller is a Biologist and the Natural Resources Lead (Northeast) at GHD. She has 20 years’ experience working as a consultant supporting the private, nonprofit, and public sectors on a variety of projects. Ms. Miller’s skills include the design and implementation of ecological field studies related to habitat assessments and presence/absence surveys. She also has experience in the identification, classification, and delineation of… Read More
Benjamin Langey
Benjamin J. Langey is an Environmental Scientist at GHD with more than five years’ experience working as a consultant supporting the private, nonprofit, and public sectors on a variety of projects. Mr. Langey’s skills include wetland identification; water quality assessment; habitat assessments for a variety of rare, threatened, and endangered flora and fauna; freshwater biology and ecology; as well as environmental site investigation and… Read More
Scott Bush
Scott E. Bush is a Senior Wetlands/Ecological Scientist at GHD. He has more than 30 years’ experience as a consultant working for the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. Mr. Bush is proficient in plant identification, wetland hydrology investigations, and soil analysis required for wetland-related studies. He regularly works on projects requiring federal and state wetland/ecological permitting and is familiar with applicable state and… Read More
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