This past weekend, our staff had the joy of celebrating another year at GreenVest at our 2022 Holiday Party. Our usual January celebration was canceled due to COVID-19 safety concerns, so we substituted the holiday cheers for a pre-summer toast. Hosted at the Hamilton in Downtown Washington, D.C., our staff enjoyed cocktail hour and a […]
Today, GreenVest celebrates our 30th birthday! Thirty years of championing ecosystem restoration, preservation, and mitigation using nature-based solutions for sustainable outcomes. Our team enjoyed a delicious catered lunch and a wonderful birthday cake to celebrate. Here’s to all we have accomplished and to all we will accomplish in the next 30 years… and beyond! […]
Every Spring, special pools blossom into existence fed by melting winter snow and seasonal rains. These vernal pools (from the Latin vernalis meaning “of the spring”) provide a host of environmental services to any habitat in which they form. Amphibians especially love vernal pools, as they are safer places (i.e., less aquatic predators due to […]
With each new stream restoration project, we employ a variety of techniques to bring the stream and its surrounding ecosystem back to health. For the Bacon Ridge Branch Stream Restoration Project, we used a ‘lighter touch’ approach that leveraged on-site materials to create structures that raised the water surface elevation and reconnected the stream to […]