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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.
We have employees skilled in planning and analysis guided by 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 help lead to your project's success. We bring with us a wide range of journey-level professional and technical expertise to efficiently and effectively supplement your staff and workforce needs. We have a full complement of field operations staff such as biologists to perform surveys, foresters and timber crews, and contract administrators. 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 each agency's unique regulations and culture.
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.
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.
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.
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Our Stories
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TEAMS Executive Staff Moving Around, Welcome Ben Martinez, TEAMS Acting Executive Officer
Ben Martinez spent more than eight years as the Region 3 Environmental Engineering Group Leader, then as the Facilities Engineering Group Leader. Prior to coming to the Forest Service my past federal career includes working on Kirtland Air Force Base as Chief of Environment, Safety, and Health for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (formerly the Defense Nuclear Agency born out of the Manhattan Project), and Environmental Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Albuquerque. Ben holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering, with an Environmental Minor, from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Welcome Ben!
Bill Lyon will assist Ben in his role as our detailed Executive Officer until a permanent position is filled. We welcome Bill's long tenure with TEAMS as a leader to provide continued quality leadership during this time of transition. A new Executive Officer will be chosen at a later date.
Bruce Higgins is acting as our Field Operations Director. Bruce's detail fits in perfectly within our leadership group. Bruce has a wide-breadth of experience and will bring continuity as well as his great perspective to the leadership group.
Barbara Ott is detailed as TEAMS Planning Director. Barbara brings with her years of project and planning expertise to the position, and we are excited to have her filling in as Planning Director.
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TEAMS Offers Silvicultural and Fire/Fuels Analysis Services
TEAMS Enterprise staff can take on landscape-scale vegetation management and fuels reduction projects. View our latest slideshow [pdf] for more information about how we can help you with planning and implementing your project.
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TEAMS Helps the Sumter National Forest of the "Palmetto State"
The Sumter National Forest in South Carolina contacted Donna Ray, TEAMS Project Liaison Officer for help with a District-wide first thinning project. They needed specialist support to conduct wildlife analysis, hydrology and botany, including a non-native invasive species analysis. The Forest entered an agreement with TEAMS in fiscal year 2012 with work to begin in the fall of that year. More
TEAMS Employee performing field survey in the Sumter National Forest
Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie Archeology Site
Recently, TEAMS Enterprise Unit heritage group had the opportunity to work on the beautiful historic landscape of the Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie. Midewin is located just outside of the small town of Wilmington, IL along historic Route 66, just about one hour south of downtown Chicago.
Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie has been a place of Native American history, has witnessed the rush of homesteading and pioneering, has born the effects of the civil war, been a pathway for President Lincoln’s funeral procession, and subjected to the effects of urban sprawl and industry. In 1939, the government took over the area and built an arsenal later called Joliet Army Ammunition Plant. As tourism became popular, and historic Route 66 was designated, Sunday drivers or those on a road trip were able to drive through what is now Midewin National Tall Grass Prairie. More
Photo: TEAMS employees Eric Pope and Julie Scrivner are briefed on the project.
 Photo: TEAMS employees Eric Pope and volunteer Debbie Pohlmann working as a team to dig and sift.
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Riparian Restoration in Southeast Nevada
TEAM Wildlife Biologists Rick Baxter and Fisheries Biologist Anthony Olegario from TEAMS have worked on to restore riparian areas in SE Nevada to improve habitat for the Big Spring spinedace (a small Threatened fish), which only occurs in Condor Canyon, and nowhere else in the world. They have taken it from scoping through project implementation and Rick said “ it has been very rewarding, and we hope it will be a success for years into the future.”(See Page 4) |
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...
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"The Enterprise Program is a unique resource, comprised of skilled and experienced Forest Service employees who help us get our work done" .
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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.
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A TEAMS employee working at the Cold Spring Mountain Pine Beetle Project in South Dakota.
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