Services

Butternut Consulting is operated by Minga O’Brien, an ecologist and forest technician with more than 25 years experience in scientific research, field work, conservation, habitat restoration, forest management and education.  Here’s what she can do for you:

• Help you become familiar with your land
• Teach you how to identify trees, plants, birds and other wildlife
• Provide you with a  plan to restore your forests, maximize value and maintain and enhance wildlife habitat
• Tree marking to grow ecologically healthy and economically valuable forests
• Botanical and wildlife inventories and observations
• Forest inventories and descriptions
• Permanent sample plot data collection, analysis and discussion
• Habitat and ecosystem characterizations and descriptions
• Teach natural resource courses (e.g., forest measurements, tree identification and navigation)
• Environmental assessments of land-use decisions
• Digital mapping with GIS
• Guided hikes and natural history walks
• Research and writing
• Editing, proof-reading & reviewing

For more information, please contact me.