DESCO Awarded BLM Professional and Technical Services IDIQ Contract

DESCO was one of eight consulting firms awarded contracts to support the BLM in six states for a total of five years. Work will be conducted in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Projects will be related to an array of DESCO's familiar fields including:

-National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) projects
-Subbasin Review/Landscape Analysis
-Public Involvement/Project Scoping
-Watershed Assessments
-Writing/Editing
-Natural Resource Studies
-Cultural/Paleontological Resource Protection Strategies and Studies
-Geographic Information Systems
-Timber/Forestry Management
-Social/Economic Studies
-Monitoring
-Engineering Surveys/Assessments/Analyses
-Fuels Management
-Remote Sensing
-Mining Opertion Assessments/Analyses
-Noxious Weed Inventories
-Reality Actions including Right of Way and Easement Acquisition

DESCO is also hard at work on a variety of new projects

DESCO employees are designing a Post-Operational Vegetation Sampling Plan to measure impacts in the Big Sandy Creek Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve from the Knight Phase II 3D Seismic Survey. Additionally, we are gathering information for an Environmental Assessment for a new wastewater treatment plant in Bell County, Texas. We will also be conducting Red Cockaded Woodpecker and Cultural Resource Surveys in conjunction with a 3D seismic survey in Smith County, Mississippi.  ¶ 9:09 AM