Natural Resource Inventories

Midwest Natural Resources provides specialized ecological community surveys, botanical inventories, forestry services, and long-term vegetation monitoring for a wide variety of applications. Our services include field delineation of native plant community boundaries as well as environmental condition ranking. Detailed vegetation monitoring and Floristic Quality Assessments provide critical information regarding changes in species presence and abundance over time.

MNR has substantial experience working in some of Minnesota’s most intact rare communities with particular expertise in calcareous fens and native prairie.

  • Releve

Services include:

  • Botanical inventories

  • Floristic Quality Assessment

  • Community classification/condition ranking

  • Sampling methods (relevés)

  • Vegetation monitoring

  • Forest Inventory & Analysis (FIA)

  • Tree inventories

  • Calcareous fen inventories