NORTH-SOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL INC.

What We Do?
NSE applies the principles of ecological sustainability through traditional avenues of environmental consulting, together with novel applications in the following areas:
  • resource management planning
  • wetland evaluations
  • design & maintenance of sustainable landscapes
  • environmental impact studies
  • protected area evaluation & management
  • park planning
  • third party technical audits
  • natural heritage studies
  • sustainable forest management
  • ecological monitoring
  • ecological restoration
  • rare species management
  • wildlife ecology
  • training & technical transfer
  • facilitation
NSE utilizes the technologies of GIS and remote sensing through the following applications:
  • spatial data modeling
  • area/volume calculations
  • geo-coding
  • statistical analysis
  • spatial data programming
  • network and cost analysis
  • data amalgamation
  • geo-referencing
  • data conversion
NSE creates, edits and revises digital data using a variety of methods and software programs. We also have the capability to produce full-size colour plots and can electronically read from and write to different media sources, including; 3.5" diskettes, CD-ROMs and 8mm data tape.
 
Caption: Grassy Waterway Candidate Protected Area Evaluation, Gogama, Ontario
Text: North-South staff undertake a complete range of biophysical surveys to facilitate evaluation of features, to establish boundaries and to develope management prescriptions. Grassy Waterway is designated as an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI) and was one of many candidate ANSIs evaluated for significance using provincial crieria. Such evaluations require an understanding of the ecological relationships among various landscape and biotic components to ensure boundary delineation captures essential sustaining processes, and to make management recommendations, both of which are necessary to achieve long term sustainability.
Photo Credit: Chris Manderson
 
Caption: Cootes Paradise Wetland Restoration, Hamilton, Ontario
Text: NSE staff are well versed in the science of ecological restoration. In this project, we researched the historic vegetation of this approximately 320 ha marsh and investigated the causes of its demise. Elevated water levels and turbidity, the latter initially caused by introduced carp and exacerbated by a long fetch and shallow depth, combined to eliminate the original vegetation. A multidiscipliary solution involving a carp control and an aggressive planting program using cribs designed to reduce the fetch was recommended as the basis for a restoration plan.