Services
Natural Resource Planning and Management
HansonRM's founder has more than 40 years of natural resource planning and management experience supporting federal, state, and municipal resource management agencies. During his career, he has served as the Program Director or Corporate Officer overseeing 16 multiyear IDIQ planning and professional services contracts for federal agencies (e.g., Forest Service, Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA, Department of Interior, and BPA). Example services have included aquatic, riparian, and watershed surveys; environmental impact evaluations; ecosystem modeling; species recovery plans; and habitat restoration.
Resolving Environmental Conflicts Using Structured Decision Making
HansonRM is a national leader for integrating environmental, economic, cultural and supporting infrastructure information and objectives within decision support frameworks to assist government, nonprofit, and commercial organizations resolve complex environmental challenges and create sustainable decisions. Structured decision making helps to understand and communicate complex system interactions. It supports, but does not dictate, win-win outcomes.
Habitat Restoration
HansonRM and its founder have a long history of providing habitat restoration services. Dave implemented his first habitat restoration project, the dredging of a headwaters spring pond and construction of bank covers for brook trout in the first-order stream, 40 years ago. His experience includes restoration planning for all types of habitats, including forest health, riparian cover, off-channel habitat, sand beaches and dunes, freshwater and coastal wetlands and more. Dave's publications demonstrated how game theory can effect restoration settlements, and he has developed decision support system frameworks for identifying restoration and conservation priorities across large, complex ecosystems.
Restoration Scaling of Environmental Damages
HansonRM has developed and published new methods for restoration scaling of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem services associated with natural resource injuries from releases of hazardous substances and other anthropogenic perturbations. Innovative methods address issues such as: incorporating landscape connectivity, climate change, non-stationarity, and application of discount rates on habitat services in support of Natural Resource Damage Assessment claims. He has also developed damage assessment methods for assessing injuries associated with severe wildfires and scaling lost cultural services.
Monitoring and Adaptive Management
HansonRM has extensive expertise evaluating recovery and success of environmental projects and programs. Dave has supported clients evaluate natural recovery and remediation of bioaccumulating substences in rivers and coastal wetlands. He has developed conceptual stressor models and identified applicable indicators of cumulative restoration program success for the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Dave also coordinated an expert panel to address the use of new remote sensing technology, meta-analysis, and artificial intelligence for evaluating large-scale ecosystem restoration.
Additional Services
- Water quality and Clean Water Act related services
- Policy analysis and regulatory development
- Cultural service evaluations
- Environmental Project and Program Management