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Kathleen Litchfield (Petro Design Build Group), Mayor Dr. Noah Waters (Town of Eagle Harbor), and Brett Berkley (GreenVest). On April 22, 2024, GreenVest recognized Earth Day in a significant way by gathering with project partners adjacent to Coleman Creek on the banks of the Patuxent River to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Eagle Harbor Stream Restoration & Community Resiliency Project. This event marked construction of a project that will address persistent flooding in this riverside community, foster an investment of resources and environmental justice to boost resilience in a town with rich history, and improve water quality entering the Chesapeake…

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Trees about to be planted While GreenVest spends every day celebrating the planet, its resources, and the environmental services it provides, Earth Day is a reminder of the positive impact our work can have on local communities. On Monday, April 22, Sydney Duncan (GreenVest’s Proposal & Marketing Coordinator) joined GreenTrust Alliance (GTA) and volunteers from Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) to plant trees in celebration of Earth Day. The group planted 100 trees and shrubs at Baltimore County’s Southwest Area Park. The 230-acre park is a multi-purpose amenity for the community with a dog park, nature trails, paved paths, pavilions,…

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On April 19, GreenVest celebrated the groundbreaking of the Middle Branch Resiliency Initiative’s (MBRI) lead project: the Hanover Street Wetland Site. This event, now nearly four years in the making, celebrated the commencement of construction for the first of many of the MBRI’s nature-based resilience projects. The MBRI is the ecological restoration arm of the Reimagine Middle Branch (RMB) Master Plan. GreenVest joined South Baltimore Gateway Partnership; GreenTrust Alliance; Environmental Quality Resources; federal, state, and community leaders; and local residents to commemorate this momentous occasion. MBRI Groundbreaking – Photo of the Ceremony’s Speakers Many Federal, State, and Local leaders attended…

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Joe Garner Presents | Photo by Adam Nabors, MSRA and EQR GreenVest was proud to participate in the Spring 2024 Stream Restoration Seminar and Job Fair hosted by the Maryland Stream Restoration Association (MSRA) at the University of Maryland on March 9. GV Project Managers Joe Garner and Bobby Miller represented our team during the event, which was geared toward undergraduate and graduate students in the region. The event introduced students to the stream restoration industry, made them aware of potential environmental career pathways, discussed the skill sets and knowledge base that companies are looking for in prospective employees, and…

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Enjoying Pi Day Today (3/14) is Pi Day, but GreenVest celebrated a day early! Since Team GV was spending Wednesday together in our Bowie office for our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Lunch and Learn training, we decided to enjoy pi(e) two circumferences of the clock sooner. As always, Pi Day involved enjoying various round foods, like pizza and dessert pies. Pi Day Pies A little background on Pi Day: Pi (3.1415926…) is the mathematical constant of a circle’s circumference divided by its diameter, which is essential to many formulas in mathematics and physics. Here at GreenVest, we use it often…

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Bobby Miller, a Project Manager at GreenVest, recently presented to a local third grade class about stream restoration and how GreenVest innovates methodology within the field of environmental restoration. Bobby’s wife, Jessica Miller, a third-grade teacher at Chesterbrook Elementary School, has been teaching her students about the water cycle and its importance in maintaining life on Earth, highlighting its key role in sustaining ecosystems. After completing the lesson, the kids were tasked with developing a group action plan to restore a local stream called Scotts Run. “It is extremely rewarding to see elementary school students working together on real life…

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Learning About Local Wildlife Even GreenVest’s legal team enjoys getting out in nature! Dana Cooper, Team GV’s General Counsel, recently chaperoned a trip to Masonville Cove (located in South Baltimore, near our MBRI projects) for her daughter’s Girl Scout Daisy Troop. Captain Trash Wheel Masonville Cove is the nation’s first Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership, in the heart of South Baltimore, with over 251 bird species calling the refuge home. Apart from the nature center and waterfront public trails, visitors can also meet Captain Trash Wheel (a 40-foot-long trash clean-up machine) and spot Baltimore City’s first known pair of nesting bald…

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Brown Trout (Caught Elsewhere in the Gunpowder Falls) Last month, while planting at our Muddy Creek Stream Restoration Project, Ecosystem Restoration Specialist Danny Waskiewicz spotted a pair of spawning brown trout in the upper part of our restoration area in the mainstem of Gunpowder Falls.   While this might seem like a routine spotting as Maryland trout have fall spawns, discovering a redd (spawning bed) in this location is significant. Trout are particularly sensitive to environmental conditions, such as water quality and temperature. This means that a suitable breeding habitat for these selective fish is hard to come by. The…

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BARC Wetland Mitigation Project The GreenVest Team wanted to take a moment to “Give Thanks” to all who make our nature-based solutions a success. GreenVest employs a land-based approach: working with landowners to find the highest and best use of their land, considering their goals while achieving ecosystem and community resilience. Thank you to our landowners for partnering with us and making a significant contribution to sustainable environmental quality and resiliency efforts. Muddy Creek Stream Restoration Project GreenVest could not implement our resilience and restoration projects without the help and support of our many partners—non-profit, government, private, and everyone in…

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Our Little Patuxent River Mitigation Project in Howard County, Maryland, is an integrated stream restoration, wetland creation, riparian buffer enhancement, land conservation, and tree planting project all in one. In addition to multiple ecological benefits such as improved water quality and habitat enhancement, this initiative provides mitigation for unavoidable impacts to low resource value streams and wetlands related to safety improvements at Tipton Airport within the Little Patuxent Watershed. Little Patuxent River Mitigation Project Onsite materials were beneficially reused for construction, providing a nature-based approach while reducing the project’s carbon footprint. This fully integrated headwater stream and wetland restoration project…

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