Consultants in Natural Resource Management and Conservation

Collective Ecological Consulting LLC is a small, woman-owned ecological consulting company based in Denver, Colorado that has been in business for 5 years. CEC specializes in environmental compliance and permitting, plant and wildlife conservation and management, mapping, and natural resources planning. 

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We are looking forward to hearing from you about your ideas and needs. Get in touch with us today.

Services

CEC is capable of providing a range of environmental and ecological services. Compliance, GIS mapping and data analysis, wildlife and plant surveys, and Conservation Easement baseline studies are just a few services we provide to our clients.

Meet the Owner

CEC was established in 2016 by Melissa Belmar, an ecologist with a decade of wildlife, vegetation, wetland, and ecology experience.

2021 is a new year, and we are looking forward to it! We were lucky to survive 2020 as a small business and to receive consistent work from our clients. Thank you to everyone who supported our small operation! We are looking forward to some new projects this year:

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• Completing an Occupancy Model Analysis on the 3 years of wildlife camera data gathered from Lone Mesa State Park for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

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• Conducting a baseline biological survey for Ken Caryl Ranch Master Association.

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• Completing Stewardship Plans for Golden Gate Canyon, Elkhead Reservoir, Yampa River, Ridgway, and John Martin Reservoir State Parks.

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• Conducting baseline biological surveys and vegetation mapping for the City of Lakewood.

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• Conducting baseline biological surveys and bat surveys for the Town of Estes Park.

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We are always trying to learn new things, even though life gets busy! Here are some  resources we are reviewing now that you may find interesting:

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• The Second Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas - we use this book regularly for reporting and writing about birds of Colorado.

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• Birds of the World - the best resource out there on bird life history, behaviors, migration, etc.

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• Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer) - written by a indigenous female scientist, this book is one of our favorites and can teach everyone, something about nature.

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• Peterson Guide to Bird Sounds of North America (Nathan Pieplow) - a great book for helping to hone in your birding by ear skills!