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About Mark Ray
Mr. Ray is a natural resources consultant throughout the U.S. He has managed over 550 public and private projects in 30 states over the last 33 years. He has helped develop 18 mitigation banks in 10 states. He has provided legal advisory and expert witness testimony in eight states over the last two years. He manages biologists, ecologists, cultural resource professionals, hazardous material specialists, GPS/GIS specialists, geotechnical engineers, and construction managers. RayEA specialties include expert witness testimony, wetland and stream permitting, targeted protected species surveys, habitat restoration, mitigation banking, and environmental impact documentation. Mr. Ray is Rosgen Level IV Certified.
Services
Permitting Services
Wetland and Stream identification, delineation, and permitting per applicable federal and state law. Other water and air regulatory compliance related to construction, operation, and maintenance as well.
Mitigation Monitoring
Monitoring to document success of voluntary or permitted ecological restoration prescriptions to assess achievement of management goals and to allow for annual credit releases. Stochastic analysis of trends toward ultimate habitat goals. Recommendations for remediation and modification to optimize credit value,habitat sustainability, and succession.
Endangered Species Surveys
Endangered Species Act compliance for projects requiring federal permits or for management planning of public or private lands. Expertise in field ID, photographic documentation, and live trapping.
Environmental Assessment
Comprehensive Environmental Assessments for National Environmental Policy Act or National Historic Preservation Act Compliance.
Stream Restoration
Survey, Assessment, Validation, Design, Construction Management, Monitoring, and Modification.
Habitat Restoration
Habitat restoration site selection, planning, design, implementation, and maintenance for mitigation banks and other public and private restoration and management efforts.
Expert Witness Testimony
Ecological, Land Use, Land Planning
Able to render expert opinions related to actual or potential ecological impacts as private legal advisory or in courtroom settings as needed. RayEA, LLC has provided legal advisory or expert witness testimony in eight states in the last two years.
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.”
-Aristotle
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
-Aldo Leopold
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.” -Job 12:7-9