Happenings

Silver Sands State Park and Walnut Beach

Posted on: February 15, 2018 BSC Group was retained by the Connecticut Department of Construction Services to provide planning, site design, and landscape architecture services for the extension of an existing boardwalk at Silver Sands State Park, as well as the construction of a new boardwalk at Walnut Beach in Milford, Ct. The new boardwalk totals approximately 3,800 feet and…Read More

Open Space Initiative and Land Trust Alliance

Posted on: February 15, 2018 BSC Group provided climate resiliency outreach for northern New England land trusts. Outreach efforts provided climate science and GIS expertise to guide land trusts as they incorporated climate resiliency into their strategic conservation plans. BSC provided technical outreach on the use of the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Collaborative’s Conservation Planning Atlas, hosted on the Data…Read More

MassDOT On-Call Environmental Services

Posted on: February 15, 2018 BSC Group is providing on-call construction assistance to assure compliance with environmental permits for construction of state and interstate roadways and highways to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Construction Division. Expertise provided includes erosion and sedimentation control inspection, roadway design and layout guidance during construction, wetland science, water quality science, and rare and endangered species…Read More

Hen’s Cove Dredging and Beach Nourishment

Posted on: February 15, 2018 BSC Group worked with the Town of Bourne, Department of Environmental Protection, Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Program, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) to complete a 27,000-cubic yard maintenance dredge and beach nourishment project at Hen Cove in Bourne, MA. An important aspect of the project was incorporating decades of USACOE and…Read More

Conservation Land Management

Posted on: February 15, 2018 BSC Group developed ten Land Stewardship Reports for Conservation owned properties. Each report provided an overview of a specific parcel of land, which included site access, recreational uses, trail networks, and strategies for protecting resource areas, flora and fauna. BSC also developed comprehensive Land Management Plans for both Bells Neck and Island Pond Conservation Areas,…Read More