Looking down from Columbia Hills State Park on 'Rain Shadow Ridge', a 30 acre house and campsite acreage overlooking Swale Canyon in Klickitat County, WA. 

Worked with owner to develop turn-key camping and sustainable living plan for rare grassland/native oak forest property - February 2022

• We leverage skills based in decades of operations leadership, landscape scale management, and the perpetual head scratching that comes from figuring out a range of land development, operational, and project management challenges.

• We also manage the relationships with all subs, 3rd party vendors, and any other key actors in the process (government officials, etc.). 

• We know when to draw it on a napkin and when to hire the architects. 

Simple Process

1. Review Owner/Manager Goals (financial, business, ecology, land use, etc.) 

2. Review the current site for opportunities to meet goals  

3. Create functional site development plans (see 'Regenerative Site Design' below)

4. Advise or manage the implementation of recommendations

Small Consultation

Create a Site Map and Generative Master Plan Draft of a target property of 10 acres or more. 

Both a Site Map and Generative Master Plan can be used for permitting, financing, grant getting, and other next steps in developing a land project.  We build it for Google Earth or Map, but it can be used in any major GIS platform. Both documents will also form the base of additional work if you decide to continue. Large 'write in the rain' paper and laminated copies included. 

Regenerative Site Design

Are you looking for new practices and affordable improvements to green your property and earn more money per acre? 

We bring decades of farm, forest, and recreation land management to craft a solution and strategy for your land project. Each of us have owned and managed land that is either heavily protected with conservation regulations or operates adjacent to sensitive lands. We know what sustainability and real regeneration looks like, and partly because we have worked within and at the edge of wild areas. We've seen the ultimate model of sustainability, wild nature, and continue to watch and learn.

This means we create maps, strategic and business plans, and direct action templates and proforma with an overriding bend towards sustainability. We call it Regenerative Site Design for convenience, but it can also be thought of as 'Mindful Design,' or in the words of one farmer friend, 'Pay Attention.'

Practically speaking, Regenerative Site Design first evaluates your property's current land practices and condition, and depending on your goals, values, and needs, devises a 'design' to execute your vision. We can work beyond the design phase, but you can also take it and work with it on your own and with your own vendors and design ideas.

We'll lead development of innovative practices and cost-effective improvements to regenerative the land while it remains accessible to farming, forestry, recreation and other enterprises that when done right fit right, or old fashion 'bush fixes' (DIY, counter intuitive and often cheap solutions to vexing and remote land problems). 

Custom Consulting & Implementation

Tired of jargon? Afraid of another dust-gathering plan? Not sure where to start with your project? Need a peer-level partner to manage a large and complex project with many contractors? 

We have hired consultants for decades. Sometimes it didn't go so well, and it almost always seemed to revolve around ROI. What am I getting with this service?

When we custom consult we go where you want to go. Research, planning, action, review, operations. We work in focused periods to get things done, and lean on maps, math, legal and technical language, design concepts and deep insights into sustainable land planning and practice across a host of conservation, recreation and working land operations.