We hope beaver will like our work and colonize this project, build and improve our dams, providing long term water quality benefits. Embracing chaos of nature is we are headed. The Bda’s performed well after a heavy discharge event, lifting water and hydrology onto the floodplain, spreading water out and promoting floodplain function, at a fraction of the cost of traditional “natural channel design”. Last week, in the middle of construction, we got a thumbs up from nature. We are executing on the first large scale nature and process based project on Beaver Creek in Washington County, Maryland, installing 65 beaver dam analogues which are man made beaver dams which promote colonizing by Castor (beaver). We took this as a sign we are headed in right direction. We have been mocked and ridiculed by some for our provocative approach here in the Eastern US. It’s been a tough and challenging journey. They may be the answer to restoring our cherished Bay to it’s former glory. The history of the fur trade in the Chesapeake landscape confirms this.
They were here by the millions in the 1600’s. In 2016 we threw out the suggestion that the North American beaver can be the champion of water quality improvement for our cherished Chesapeake Bay. Ecotone is coming for you hard and fast in partnership with our buck toothed, flat tailed, ecosystem engineers. Ecotone officially became a B Corp in 2018, a certification for businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. To learn more, please visit Source: Win for the Beavers as We Continue Work on Beaver Creek The company provides full-delivery ecosystem restoration, mitigation, design, construction, and consulting solutions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Our Bhag is to change the way world thinks about and executes on ecological restoration challenges.”įounded in 1998, Ecotone is a Harford County, MD based ecological restoration company that designs and builds sustainable ecosystems to reduce erosion of stream banks, manage stormwater, conserve and restore wetlands, and restore forests.
5000 for 4 years in a row was simply a result of our company’s mission to find and execute innovative, cost effective, and nature based solutions for our customers and the environment. Open sourcing our approach with the ecological restoration community at large is how we are scaling our outcomes to other regions of North America and the world. “We didn’t set out with the intention to grow earnings or improve our profit margin. Our goal was to help our clients and partners solve important ecological and water quality problems. Making the Inc. While being recognized for growing its business is welcomed, McGill stressed that his company’s focus is beyond the bottom line. We set the table and let nature take it from there. “Our philosophy is to allow nature to restore nature. It’s our contribution to beautifying our local communities, improving water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, and encouraging a natural restoration,” said Ecotone’s owner Scott McGill. “It’s a win-win-the local town or city can provide its residents a healthier, safer environment, while we do the legwork to find the funding. A key to Ecotone’s success has been its ability to identify local restoration projects, such as streams and wetlands in need of repair, and partner with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to offset some of the costs, allowing local municipalities to improve their natural environments without going beyond their budget.
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