MTS has been involved with many prominent conservation projects in the Blue Ridge and eastern North America. These typically involve detailed botanical & wildlife inventory, scientific studies & research, reports, mapping, management plans and implementation.

Current Projects

1000-acre Greenspace: James City County, VA Greenspace Program – Baseline Documentations: Sept – Dec, 2007. 
Baseline documentation assessments, data management, and stewardship protocols for county fee & easement properties in partnership with The Conservation Consultant and BioGeoCreations.

Baseline Documentation and Biological Inventories: Nov-Dec, 2007.  
Projects involve comprehensive documentation and botanical / wildlife inventories of the Shoal Falls and Angel’s Way properties via the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy.

Spring and Water Quality Assessment: Nov-Dec, 2007. Private Landowners. 
Water quality and flow rate testing for spring bottled water program.

Appalachian Trail Rare Species Monitoring: June-Oct, 2007 /Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Project includes assisting volunteer rare plant monitors, locating new rare species populations, documenting species and lcoations un-monitored for many years, providing volunteer site-monitoring handbooks.

Land-buyer feasibility studies: August 2007 /Private Landowner
Assisting landowner with conservation community feasibility study including spring locations & water flow measurments, crop & grazing land suitability, least-impact homesite locations, and property-wide management plan. Walnut Creek, NC.

Old Bishop Place Farm: August 2007-2008 / Private Landowner
Bottomland forest restoration, wildflower meadow installation, and native evergreen hedging design and implementation. 

Big Briar Cove - South Turkey Creek. April-Sept, 2007 / Private Landowner
A season-long study of rare species, habitats, wetlands, and conservation values of the 120-acre property owned by Dr. Robert Moog- inventor of the synthesizer! Study includes severel new Buncombe county records.

English Ivy Eradication. Feb-Aug, 2007 / Private Landowner
A removal of approximately 1-acre of English Ivy (Hedera helix) from rich-cove forest on high elevation private lands adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Sugar Creek Ecologial Inventory & Mangement Plan. Ongoing / Private Landowner
A fall 2006/Spring 2007 inventory and managment plan covering forestry, rare species, wetlands, market production of native plants, and residential design with private landowner in the rural Sugar Creek valley of western Buncombe County, NC.

Recent Clients

Land Trusts & Conservation Planning
Moog Music,Inc (yes – the inventor of the synthesizer) / Leicester NC
Rough Creek Watershed (900 ac) / Canton, NC
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy / Asheville NC
Conservation Trust for North Carolina / Raleigh NC
Conservation Advisors / Brevard NC
Brushy Fork Watershed (400 ac) / Brevard, NC
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy / Hendersonville NC
Foothills Land Conservancy / Morganton NC
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust / Highlands NC
Wildacres Retreat  / Little Switzerland NC
Woodfin Watershed (3000 ac) / Woodfin, NC
North American Land Trust (NALT) / Pennsylvania
The Overton "Old Growth" Park / Memphis TN
Dewar Wildlife Trust's "Gorilla Haven"  / Project / Georgia
Valle Crucis Conference Center  / Valle Crucis NC
The SmartWood Foundation, peer reviewer
Hatches Harbor Wetland Mitigation Study / Provincetown, MA
North American Land Trust
Appalachian Voices 
Western North Carolina Alliance
Cherokee Forest Voices
WENOCA Sierra Club
Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (now WildSouth)
Dogwood Alliance