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United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Enterprise Program
TEAMS Our People Make the Difference

 

Today's TEAMS Enterprise Unit is about Talent, Experience, Agility, Mobility, and Simplicity

  

Talent

We are more than 150 permanent employees who proudly call the TEAMS Enterprise our Forest Service Unit. We are here to provide you relief by helping you solve your natural resource dilemmas. Our multi-talented employees are ready to assist in short notice to help you accomplish your land management objectives and goals. No project is too large or too small. We can provide an entire team or one resource specialist.


Experience

We are experienced in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and National Forest Management Act, we have a wide array of natural resource specialists who are trained in project management and planning that can only lead to your project's success. We bring with us a wide-range of journey-level professional and technical expertise to efficiently and effectively compliment your staff and workforce needs. We have a full complement of field operations including resources such as biologists to perform surveys, forest management and timber staff, and contract administrators. to implement your project on the ground. We have all the resources you have and those you need. We have worked with a number Federal and State agencies adapting our experience to meld with your Agency's unique regulations and culture.


Agility

We are experienced in working in a range of landscapes, and we are located around the U.S. Best of all we have flexibility, availability, and we are anxious to work with you! Our flexibility and mobility has been indispensable to land managers across the nation.


Mobility

We travel as needed. Our staff and crews are mobile and travel to where we are needed and for as long as we are needed. Also, with travel caps in place government-wide, we understand that sometimes travel is not an option. We are well-versed in telecommuting and most of us work in a virtual environment every day. We are doing our part to be diligent in managing our travel along with you.


Simplicity

Working with TEAMS is as easy as contacting us by phone or email for a complimentary estimate, developing a statement of work, agreeing on the work, and signing a work order to finalize our partnership. TEAMS Enterprise Unit has been serving natural resource clients for more than a decade.


Follow this link to contact us for a complimentary estimate!

 



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TEAMS Executive Staff Moving Around

Chris French has accepted a detail to the Washington Office beginning May 21. Chris will be acting as the Assistant Director for Planning in the Environmental Management Coordination of National Forest Systems staff.. In Chris's absence, Kim Vogel will act as Executive Officer, Bill Lyon will act as Planning Director, and we welcome, Robert Skorkowsky to detail as Field Operations Director.

Our Stories

Sale Area Layout and Harvesting Institute Chris Bielecki helped teach the Forest Service 2012 Sale Area Layout and Harvesting Institute (SALHI). This is a national training and there were students from across the country. Here is a group photo with the class next to a wood deck they logged themselves with a cable yarder. This was taken at Lubrecht Experimental Forest, MT.

Archaeologist Dan Born at Hudson Meng Bison bonebed Archaeologist Dan Born successfully defended his master's thesis at University of Minnesota titled "Phytolith indicators of paleoecology at the HudsonMeng Bison Bonebed of Nebraska". HudsonMeng is located on the Nebraska National Grasslands.

Dan has archaeological survey and GIS production experience going back to 2005. Prior to joining the Forest Service he worked in both the academic and private sector, as a graduate researcher and as an archaeological technician on energy exploration projects.

Dan is skilled in the removal and analysis of plant microfossils from both lake bottom and terrestrial soil deposits. We are super proud of Dan!

National Recognition for Adaptive Management Project

Sue Wingate, Scott Reitz, Ellen Borgardus-Szymaniak, and contractor Randy Hall worked on a fire/fuels project (West Sterns) on Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF). With the help of David Taylor (botanist) and Alison Coons (fire/fuel) on the DBNF, they developed an adaptive management approach... Read More...

Kiki Bradway and Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell

"The Enterprise Program is a unique resource, comprised of skilled and experienced Forest Service employees who help us get our work done" .
--Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell

Kudos from Chief Tidwell on Landscape Management Project

Since 2010, TEAMS employees Greg Robertson, Katherine Malengo, and Anthony Olegario have worked on the 5-Mile Landscape Management Project in Oregon, one of two such projects in the country. This project will be part of a pilot program that is... Read More...

Cooperative Effort Managing New York City's Watersheds

Read about TEAMS partnership with New York City's Department of Environmental Protection. TEAMS spent more than two years working closely with the DEP to create a first ever forest management plan for the water supply to the city.

Skokomish River Restoration TEAMS employees take on the Skokomish River stream restoration project in Washington. As you can see in the photo showing major stream work, no project is too big or too small!

Agriculture Research Station Sheep Grazing Analysis

An article in High Country News recently talked about TEAMS work with the Agriculture Research Station with sheep grazing NEPA analysis, and TEAMS own Sue Wingate is quoted in this article about the effects of sheep grazing practices on the grizzly bear! http://working/blogs/goat/sheep-versus-bear-agency-versus-agency.

Cold Springs Barkbeetle Kill Project

A TEAMS employee working at the Cold Spring Mountain Pine Beetle Project in South Dakota.

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