On March 12, 2010, NRC was awarded the “Indiana Bat Survey of Five Counties in West-Central and Southwest Iowa” project by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.  Fish and Wildlife Service is funding this effort through a grant to better define the range of the Indiana Bat in this region of Iowa.  The surveys are scheduled to take place between May and August 2010 and will consist of acoustic surveys using Anabat echolocation detectors at 58 sites within these counties and mist netting at 22 of these sites.   

 

NRC on team awarded Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Small Business Set Aside Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract
 

 In late March, NRC, as part of a small business team, was awarded a contract to provide Technical Environmental Consulting Services to support the Clean Water Act (CWA) from U.S. EPA, Region 5, Water Division.  This contract will support programs that include the Total Maximum Daily Loads program (TMDL); the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program for point sources; the Water Quality Standards program; the Section 319 program for Non-Point Source (NPS) Control; the Wetlands program and CWA Section's 401, 402, & 404; and Water Quality monitoring program.  Other small business team members include Montgomery Associates Resource Solutions LLC, Natural Resource Technology Inc., Limnotech, Inc., Ecological Research Partners LLC, and the Galardi-Rothstein Group.  NRC is looking forward to providing support services to implement the CWA in Region 5.

NRC on team awarded US Army Corps Engineers Buffalo District Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Contract
 

 NRC is part of a winning team, as small business team member on the Ecology and Environment proposal for GLRI work in the Great Lakes Basin.  The specific contracts will support the GLRI and the majority of the contract work will be performed within the boundaries of the Buffalo, Detroit, and Chicago Districts.  The focus areas for the GLRI are as follows:  Toxic Substances and Areas of Concern; Invasive Species; Nearshore Health and Nonpoint Source Pollution; Habitat and Wildlife Protection and Restoration; Accountability, Monitoring, Evaluation, Communication, and Partnerships.

 

 

In April, NRC was selected to monitor ecosystem restoration work being conducted at the McMahon Woods and Fen, a Cook County Forest Preserve.  NRC’s responsibilities will include vegetation monitoring for the 2010 growing season, beginning with GPS mapping of vegetation units to provide specific guidance for onsite restoration management.  This site is unique because it contains a 15-acre fen-sedge meadow complex, a wetland habitat in which calcium rich groundwater discharges at the ground surface.  The site contains critical habitat that may support populations of the state-endangered Hine’s Emerald dragonfly.  The project is conducted in partnership with Openlands, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.