Hamilton
Environmental Services was established in 2004, and has established a strong
reputation for personal, cost-effective and professional service delivered in a
timely manner to the highest quality.Clients have included private
landholders and companies and Government agencies, in both New
South Wales and Victoria.We
have project managed and delivered both big and small projects - no job is
therefore too small for us to manage, and we have the necessary experience to manage larger projects as well.
Steve is VQA (Habitat Hectares) accredited and is a Bush Broker site assessor (both through DELWP in Victoria), and is a Biodiversity Assessment Method (BAM) accredited assessor in NSW.
The
range of services we offer include:
- Flora and fauna inventory,
auditing, monitoring and survey, including targeted threatened species
surveys, using standard techniques and remote technology, and research-level floristic monitoring
- Ecological Vegetation
Class (EVC) evaluation and mapping
- Soil survey, typing
and mapping
- Literature reviews and
research investigations, and development of conceptual models and
frameworks
- Vegetation
assessments (Vegetation Quality and BushBroker assessments), tree and habitat offset inventories and Vegetation Offset
Management Plans and reporting to satisfy the requirements of Victoria's Native
Vegetation Management Framework and the 2017 Native Vegetation Removal Regulations (in Victoria)
- Vegetation condition
assessment and mapping, including the application of the ?habitat hectare
approach? (VQA and BushBroker Competent within Victoria), Index of Stream Condition (ISC) and the Index of Wetland Condition (IWC)
- Completion and management of Work Plans and associated reporting to gain approvals for mining (Work Authorities)(in Victoria)
- Completion and management of Reviews of Environmental Factors (REFs) and Development Applications (DAs), and facilitation of native vegetation clearance application and identification of appropriate offset areas (in liaison with Office of Environment and Heritage [OEH] and Local Land Services {LLSs])(in NSW)(BAM accredited in NSW)
- Experimental design,
interpretation and analysis for ecological field studies
- Survey data analysis
and interpretation using DISTANCE software
- Management planning
for farms and properties, remnant revegetation, revegetation and weed
management, including the formulation of strategies for appropriate
ecological management and ecosystem restoration
- Community consultation on NRM issues, including face-to-face and phone interviews, mail and on-line surveys
- Education and training
for contract undertaken in Victoria
in botany, general biology, ecology, soil science, revegetation and
restoration, management planning and conservation management. Contract
teaching into TAFE and Higher Education, and field days on appropriate
topics with community groups such as Greening Australia Victoria
- All projects are supported by high-quality mapping outputs using ArcGIS 10.
HES
does not have the overheads of medium or larger sized regional or city
consultancies, and we therefore have significantly lower hourly rates. You can
be assured that our quotes will be very cost competitive.
We
would be happy to provide you with a prompt obligation free quote for any work
that you require, and if necessary, will arrange a free site visit to properly
scope the work for quote.
Give
Hamilton Environmental Services a call.
The range of services we offer include: