Our Services

Land Management

Land management helps us to control and guide the land we are protecting, conserving, and preserving, and of course managing. We want our landscape to work in concert with the natural systems all By guiding one area of land we are helping to mitigate erosion and invasives while establishing native plants that encourage native habitats to return.

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Management through the years

Land management creates strategies and practices that can enable communities and organizations more control and more resilience in regard to climate change and weather fluctuations that affect not only their land but the interconnectedness of the lands around them.

Creek in wooded habitat in open space area

Open space management

Management of large acreage habitats is a cornerstone of our business. We have performed multi-year management projects with a number of landowners and agencies focused on vegetative management. These projects not only benefit native plant species, but have direct positive effects on the animals that call the Central Coast home. Remove invasive plants to stop seed migration, aid cattle grazing by removing toxic plants, create natural habitat, create trail-use opportunities for the community.

Revegetation

From our in-house native plant nursery, to our highly skilled staff and crew, ECI is fully prepared to provide a suite of revegetation options and strategies for your project. Our team is ready to take your project from planning and imple- mentation to long-term management, ensuring success not just in the immedi- ate, but in the long term as well. ECI is experienced in dealing with mitigation requirements from regulatory agencies and municipalities and can get your project back on track whatever the circumstance.

California poppies on hill in open space area
WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING REVEGETATION SERVICES:
  • Stop soil erosion by establishing vegetation cover and roots systems
  • Replace vegetation lost during construction
  • Regulate local temperature (heat island effect) due to loss of vegetation
  • Satisfy permit requirements for land to building ratios
  • Increase biodiversity
  • Provide eco-systems
  • Provide natural habitat
  • Plant management
  • Reduce carbon monoxide
  • Provide community connectivity to nature
ECI employee planting native plants

Plant management

Managing the plants in a landscape can have many benefits to the environment and the overall feel of the space. The addition of certain plants to an area, while taking into consideration water conservation, soil type, plant type, sun/shade requirements and plant placement, can actually reduce the need for maintenance and decrease disease and pests. The goal is to allow the landscape to thrive on it’s own with minimal environmental impact and human intervention.

ECI has a team of trained professionals well versed in the application and management of plants in a landscape environment. ECI has the ability to provide suggestions and design based on our clients needs, with these principles in mind.

  • Landscape installation and maintenance practices for water conservation
  • Fertilization
  • Landscape management practices for water conservation
  • Pruning
  • BMPs
  • Installation
  • Additional resources

Plant protections

Gopher and deer browse a concern? No problem. Our team has a solution that meets the requirements of your project to ensure that your plants are protected in the important first two years of establishment. Protection includes but is not limited to:

  • Deer fencing
  • Cattle fencing
  • Gopher wire
  • Liquid repellant
  • Maintenance
new plantings protected by deer fencing
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