Conservation Connects: Company Info
Conservation Connects is a limited liability company formed in 2009 by Sheila Hess. Sheila has over seventeen years experience in natural resource conservation including wetland ecology, wildlife biology and aquatic resource restoration and mitigation. She worked with a non-profit conservation organization for twelve years, focusing on landscape-level planning and restoration of wetland systems in eighteen states across the Great Lakes and Atlantic Region. She has coordinated several watershed-based planning efforts and has worked extensively with conservation organizations, watershed groups, and regulatory staff to develop wetland avoidance, minimization, and compensation strategies for individuals, agencies, and corporations.
Her current efforts also include developing local and landscape-level strategies to achieve and sustain a high quality of life through sustainable economic development and green infrastructure assessments and planning.
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Partners & Clients
Conservation Connects works with partners and clients who seek the balance and efficiency that result from proactive integration of natural resources into land use planning and design. The success of Conservation Connects is based on a network that connects landowners, developers, engineers, conservation organizations, and the environmental regulatory community to effectively integrate interests, opportunities and needs.
Communities
Communities, towns, counties, and land use planners seek environmental expertise and stakeholder collaboration to achieve sustainable growth, a healthy environment, and a high quality of life. Conservation Connects develops landscape-level planning strategies (e.g., watershed plans, green infrastructure plans) that protect and promote the growth of their communities. These results can only be achieved by forming strong local partnerships, and by utilizing science-based natural resource planning.
Corporations
Large corporations, developers, transportation agencies, and energy companies seek to integrate sustainability into their core business strategies and continue to realize economic growth. Conservation Connects facilitates the development of innovative solutions to minimize impacts on natural resources and provide high quality compensation.
Conservation Agencies and Organizations
Natural resource agencies, conservation organizations, and watershed groups seek to develop and expand community-based watershed and green infrastructure planning. Conservation Connects develops landscape-level conservation strategies that are accepted and supported by local communities, local governments, and economic developers. Conservation Connects provides services that range from natural resource inventory to collaboration and community-based planning.
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