Ecosystem Management Programs (EMP)
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Services Provided
Our primary support include:
Providing business process, technical and management expertise; advising and assisting with facilitating and coordinating virtual geographically dispersed meetings; production of presentation graphics and materials; providing IT expertise to include 508 compliance, web site development and support, knowledge management, GIS systems, image capture and analysis via remote sensing, data management, records management, collaboration, social networking, and technical support; providing natural resource economics and social assessment expertise; providing management of resources under the stewardship of National Forest Systems expertise; providing knowledge acquisition for resource inventory, monitoring, and planning activities; designing, developing, and evaluating data collection methods; and providing biophysical, social, and economic condition assessments.
"The corporate capability of the contractor is solid. The personnel assigned to each of the tasks are technically competent and dedicated subject matter experts."
"The Forest Service National Groundwater Program has been fortunate to be working with METI for the last five years as the program has worked through the development and publication of key technical resources. The Groundwater Program in the Forest Service is one of the newest resource management initiatives in the agency and as such has had to develop new technical resources to support field implementation of the program. Through contracting with METI, we have gained access to superior project management, sound guidance, and numerous technical resources that we would not have been able to access on our own. In no small part due to METI’s assistance, the Groundwater Program has completed and published two field guides, is progressing through final reviews on a new technical guide, and is starting the revision of the original technical guide developed in the early stages of the program about a decade ago. The high performance of our development team has been noticed by Forest Service management and has resulted in continued funding for now six straight years."
"On behalf of the Western Region’s Committee for the national Cohesive Wildfire Strategy, I want to thank you and your team for your contributions and efforts in the development of Phase II, Phase III, and the Regional Action Plan. In Phase II, your team served as our communications effort from a facilitation standpoint as well as developing stakeholder content analysis and products to assist partners and communities including the development of monthly regional updates. The Phase II products would not have been as accurate or reflective of stakeholder engagement without your team’s hard work, expertise, and commitment to the effort. In Phase III and the subsequent Regional Action Plan your team provided depth and experience to the regional communications Working Group. Your team helped develop and manage the success stories, a template on how success stories could translate in to a utility for the Strategy’s implementation, continued development of the monthly updates, facilitated stakeholder outreach, and essentially designed the process timeline and key engagement points for the directed timeline. Through both phases your team has consolidated, evaluated, and assimilated stakeholder feedback for the use of the WRSC. Again, without your team’s involvement, we would not have the products to the accuracy and meaning that they have today. Thank you. What follows are some key thoughts on our minds with specific acknowledgements to individuals on the METI/Western Regional Team."