Agenda - Environmental Policy Board - 03/15/2007 - Special Meeting

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Project Team Ecologists Paul Bockenstedt and Elizabeth Gould have inventoried more than one million acres of limd in the uppe/Midwest. <NatlJral Resources InventOty Q Key Personnel Ready'to Work on Your Project The project team for Ramsey's Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) draws upon staff from the following Bonestroo departments: . ~ Natural Resources ~ Planning ~ GIS Two ecologists from the Natural Resource team, Paul Bockenstedt and Elizabeth Gould, will head the project. Combined, these experienced ecologists have inventoried more than one million acres of land in the upper Midwest. They have conducted rare species searches on thousands of additional acres, and have more than 250 rare plant and animal records to their credit in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Paul and. Uza have worked with the Minnesota Land Cover Classification System (MLCCS) since the late 1,990's and are respected in the profession for providing thorough, useable data sets. In the Twin Cities region alone, Bonestroo has completed MLCCS mapping for more than 250,000 acres. Paul Bockenstedt, Senior Ecologist, will serve as Project Manager for the Ramsey NRI. As such, he will be involved in: ~ , Field work . Facilitating and presenting information at meetings . Coordinating the project schedule with City staff Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the natural resources field, and has inventoried and created management plans for natural communities in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Paul has served as the project manager and/or lead ecologist for more than 50 natural resource inventory projects and botanical inventories during his career. He has written dozens of custom site management/restoration and/or seeding plans for habitats ranging from forest to wetlands and prairies, and is especially knowledgeable about prairie and woodland ecosystems. Paul is also experienced at facilitating public meetings on natural resources-related issues. Elizabeth Gould, Plant Ecologist, will assist Paul with the field work, and serve as the lead person on the project's MLCCS and GIS components, induding incorporating the MnRAM wetland Information into MLCCS data sets. Uza has worked in the Natural resource field since the late 19805. At Bonestroo, she is involved in natural resource inventories and rare plant searches throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. She is especially familiar With the species and natural communities of the Anoka Sandplain landform in the Twin Cities region.