Applied Ecological Services is one of the leading broad-based ecological consulting, contracting, and restoration firms in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere in the world since 1975.  Specific areas of ecological expertise include wetland, grassland, savanna, and forest sciences.  Staff consultants, consisting of a multidisciplinary team of over 100 scientists and professionals, manage approximately 500 projects per year throughout the U.S. and other the world.  AES is regularly involved in the following: ecological research and restoration planning; inventorying of natural resources; prairie, wetland and woodland restoration and management; wildlife, fisheries, and botanical studies; long-term project management and monitoring; ecological and other scientific research; expert testimony and legal discovery.  AES is also one of the largest ecosystem restoration design-build firms in the world.

Brinkman & Associates Reforestation Ltd is Canada’s oldest and foremost reforestation and ecosystem restoration company.  Since 1970, the company has planted one billion trees and has restored over a million hectares of forest land.  Brinkman also currently manages approximately one million hectares of forest land.  Brinkman has consistently innovated within the forestry industry.  These innovations include developing techniques such as micro-site and mixed-species planting, and introducing government policies on natural forest regeneration.  Although its roots are in reforestation and forest ecosystem restoration, the company also engages in grassland, wetland, riparian and intertidal restoration projects.  In Central America, Brinkman has been active since 1995 under the name BARCA to provide FSC-certified management (including land purchasing, planting, and tending) to high-value tropical hardwood plantations.  Its plantations are acknowledged to be some of the best in the world.  Through its operations in Central America, BARCA has approximately $200 million in investments under management.