Representative Projects

Since its formation in 1996 BioLogic has completed nearly 1,000 projects. We’ve worked on properties as small as a native flowerbed and as large as 2,800 acres. Our client list includes private landowners, nonprofits, businesses and numerous government agencies. Every project is important to us. Although we work extensively with private landowners, most of the projects described below are public sector projects in order to protect the landowners’ privacy.

Contact us for more information about a listed project or to start your own.

Restoration and Native Landscaping

Saco Foods Prairie. Prairie and other native landscapes are a great way for businesses to reduce their maintenance costs, provide green space for their employees and benefit the environment. Saco Foods, a Middleton, WI, business is reaping these rewards.

Saco Foods Prairie. Starting conditions-an old field chock full of weeds (l), planting the prairie after the weeds have been eliminated and the soil prepared (c), more color, diversity and visual interest than a lawn and less expensive to maintain (r).

Residential Landscapes. Native landscaping attracts birds, butterflies and other wildlife to your yard, infiltrates stormwater and is much more colorful and interesting than turf grass.

Converting turf grass to prairie. First the lawn is killed (l), then lightly rototilled and planted using a mixture of seeds and transplants (c), and is in full bloom during the second growing season (r).

Pope Farm Park. Twenty-eight acres of planted prairie (and counting) and its management. Click here for more information on the park and its prairies.

Madison Urban Open Space Foundation and Friends of Troy Gardens. Prairie restoration design and installation in Troy Gardens, a 26-acre City of Madison park.

Middleton Hills Outlot 10 Conservancy Park. Oak savanna, prairie and pond shoreline restoration using a $10,000 grant obtained by BioLogic. Click here to see a photographic project report (5.7 MB PDF file).

Esser Pond Conservancy Park. Wet-mesic prairie restoration to provide wildlife habitat, reduce shoreline erosion and improve water quality in the Lake Mendota Priority Watershed using a $10,000 grant obtained by BioLogic.

Ecological Assessments and Management Plans

Hazard tree location map.

National Parks Service, George Washington Carver National Monument, Joplin, MO. Botanical inventory of the non-forested areas of the park for preparing a Cultural Landscape Plan.

Jefferson County Parks Department. Ecological assessment of 90-acre Korth Park with plans for oak savanna and Rock Lake shoreline restoration, an informational brochure and an educational kiosk.

Stricker Pond Oak Woodland, Middleton. Assessment and management plan for restoring a five-acre Conservation Park containing degraded oak woodland.

Sustainable Forestry Council/Rainforest Alliance. SmartWood assessment team ecologist evaluating the eligibility of public and private entities to receive Sustainable Forestry Certification.

Oak savanna restoration plan.

Karner Blue Butterfly. Habitat surveys and population monitoring of the federally endangered Karner Blue Butterfly for utility companies.

Middleton Hills Oak Savanna, Middleton. Assessment and management plan for a three-acre oak savanna restoration with interpretive sign and informational brochure.

Pope Farm Park, Town of Middleton. Assessment of the 105-acre park and a Master Plan for the Park's natural areas.

Taliesin Preservation, Inc. Assessment of Taliesin's natural areas (250 acres of prairie, upland forest and Wisconsin River floodplain forest) and management plan. Assessment of Taliesin's cultural and agricultural areas to provide background information for a Historic Landscape Report.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Recreation supply and demand assessment for the 18 county West Central Region for revision of the Black River State Forest Master Plan.

Education

Birds of the Kettle Ponds Brochure. Annotated checklist of resident and migratory birds for trailside use. Click here to see the entire brochure (PDF 268KB).

Elm Lawn Elementary School. Oak savanna and prairie restoration of the school grounds involving 115 students, their teachers and seven partner groups using a $6,400 National Association of Counties Five-Star Challenge Grant obtained by BioLogic.

Talking about prairies before planting (l, top), planting the prairie with seeds mixed with wood shavings (l, bottom), one of five interpretive signs designed by the kids and placed on site (r).

Public Service Activities

• Wisconsin Council on Forestry, Invasive Species Advisory Committee. Developing best management practices to control invasive species in Wisconsin forests.
• Troy Gardens Natural Areas Advisory Committee. Provide restoration and management oversight for Troy Gardens, a 26 acre City of Madison park.
• Prairie Biotic Research, Vice President and grant program coordinator. PBR is a nonprofit promoting organismal biological research in North American prairies.
• Wisconsin Fire Council, insurance committee.
• Volunteer burn school instructor for The Nature Conservancy.
• Volunteer field trip leader for The Nature Conservancy, The Prairie Enthusiasts, Madison Audubon Society and the Blue Mounds Area Project.