Timber Stand Improvement for Red Spruce Trees
Red Spruce Forests Picea rubens, most commonly known as red spruce, was once abundant in the West Virginia highlands covering over one million acres until the late 1800s. Its natural ecosystem contributions include providing food and cover for many animals such as the...
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AllStar Welcomes New Staff
AllStar Ecology is excited to announce the addition of four new staff members with a wide range of biological and environmental experience and expertise. Matthew Gilkay, Environmental Scientist I / Aquatic Biologist, is assisting AllStar with freshwater mussel...
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Pollinator Conservation: West Virginia’s Native Bees
Native Bees are Important to West Virginia West Virginia’s native bees including bumble bees, mason bees, leaf-cutter bees, miner bees, and sweat bees are important to the pollination of most flowering trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants within the forests and fields...
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AllStar’s Mitigation Expertise Featured in Professional Book: Wetland & Stream Rapid Assessments
AllStar Ecology recently authored a chapter in the professional book Wetland and Stream Rapid Assessments: Development, Validation, and Application. This book describes the scientific and environmental policy background for rapid wetland and stream assessments, how...
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Surveying for Threatened & Endangered Crayfish of the Southern Coalfields
In 2016, two species of Appalachian crayfish, the Big Sandy Crayfish (Cambarus callainus) and the Guyandotte River Crayfish (C. veteranus) were awarded federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Due to their limited range and degrading habitat, the Big Sandy...
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2018 AllStar Volunteers
Overview AllStar Ecology’s Employer Sponsored Volunteer Program encourages our employees to serve and support our local and regional communities through volunteerism efforts. In 2018, seventeen of our employees (nearly half of our staff) participated in the program,...
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AllStar Attends Joint Bat Working Group Meeting
AllStar Ecology was well represented at the Joint Bat Working Group Meeting in Roanoke, VA. The March 27-29, 2018 meeting was an assemblage of the Northeast Bat Working Group, Midwest Bat Working Group, the Southeastern Bat Diversity Network, and the Colloquium on the...
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The History and Archaeology of Bear Knob and Rover’s Run
AllStar Ecology conducted an archaeological survey of Rover’s Run, overlooked by the tallest point in Upshur County. Its history spans the prehistoric, Native American past to the Civil War.
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AllStar Volunteerism in our Local Communities
AllStar Ecology had a very busy and successful 2017 as it was one of our company’s best years on record. This success was also demonstrated in our Employer Sponsored Volunteer Program. This program encourages our employees to serve and support our local and regional...
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Indiana Bat Habitat Preferences Article by AllStar’s Eric Schroder
Eric Schroder, AllStar Ecology Bat Biologist, was recently the lead author on a journal article titled “Indiana bat maternity roost habitat preference within Midwestern United States upland Oak-Hickory (Quercus-Carya) forest”. The article focuses on the Indiana bat, a...
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