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Habitat Consultancy

CardinalThe Heard Natural Habitat Consultancy provides commercial and residential developers, builders, landscapers and landowners qualified experts in property design for environmental quality and the improvement of wildlife habitat.

Services

  • Flora and fauna surveys
  • Wildlife conflict resolution
  • Site analysis
  • Xeriscape design
  • Habitat quality evaluation (a detailed survey of the property used to evaluate the overall functional ability and health of the ecosystem)
  • Plant placement and basic design principles
  • Design wildlife friendly landscapes, wildlife habitats, native plant gardens, residential bird and butterfly gardens for home owners associations, municipalities and developerschrysactinia
  • Consulting on native landscape maintenance
  • Design for community green areas
  • Consulting on land restoration practices to recover depleted, damaged or altered ecosystems including the control of exotic and invasive species and the re-establishment of native plant and animal populations
  • Land management planning for the conservation of natural resources
  • Create specialized environmental seminars and training for municipalities and industry

Clientele

Children's House Montessori School, Raytheon, Elm Fork Nature Preserve, TexDOT, Cities of Allen and Lucas, Stone Briar Natural Areas Committee, Valley Creek Elementary School
and other Collin County schools, Chestnut Square

Meet the Heard Habitat Consultants

 

Roger SandersonFor more than 30 years, Roger Sanderson has been a fixture in North Texas natural science circles. After undergraduate work in zoology/ botany (UT Austin) and graduate work in horticulture (Texas A&M), he was Assistant Director of the Dallas Civic Garden Center (now Texas Discovery Gardens) for 5 ½ years. He was also a horticulture instructor at Richland and Northlake Colleges with a weekly column in the Dallas Morning News.  He then formed his own landscape firm. He has been the Heard Museum’s Wildlife Biologist and is now its Curator as well. Known as the “Snake Man” for his work with snakes at the Heard and the Boy Scout National Jamborees, Roger is a board member of the local Audubon and a member of TOS, SER, NAI, Dallas Paleo Society and several ”Herp” societies. rsanderson@heardmuseum.org

 
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