Hickory Creek helps you protect natural resources in your community. From understanding ecology to developing local protection strategies, Hickory Creek translates science into action. We identify threats to water and wildlife resources and develop the actions needed to address them, applying 30 years' expertise in environmental impact evaluation, wetlands, habitat assessment, watershed management, and at-risk wildlife.
We need both a healthy environment and a sustainable economy; this is not an 'either-or' choice. We all benefit when the true costs of development are included in land use decisions. Hickory Creek promotes informed advocacy, and bridges gaps between scientific information and public understanding.
We need both a healthy environment and a sustainable economy; this is not an 'either-or' choice. We all benefit when the true costs of development are included in land use decisions. Hickory Creek promotes informed advocacy, and bridges gaps between scientific information and public understanding.
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Hickory Creek Consulting LLC is an environmental consulting business in Red Hook, NY, owned and operated by Karen Schneller-McDonald. A native of the Hudson Valley, Karen has also lived in Laporte, Colorado and Hamilton, Montana. Her professional journey includes experience as an environmental educator, wildlife biologist, ecologist, researcher, wetland specialist and delineator, and environmental impact assessment specialist.
Connecting the Drops
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We face a water crisis. We don't experience this crisis as one sudden catastrophe that dries up wells or poisons drinking water overnight. Instead, we experience insidious, incremental events-oil spills, floods, polluted runoff, hydrofracking operations-that threaten our water and our communities in one place at a time.
Training
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Daily headlines draw attention to water issues: contaminated drinking water, competition for water supply (bottled-water companies vs communities), oil spills, pipeline leaks, fracking impacts, flooding, habitat loss. This training helps you connect these issues with both the natural resources at stake and the actions we can take to protect them.
Environmental Impacts
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Land and water impacts from residential, commercial, industrial and energy development (including large solar and wind projects) affect natural systems such as watersheds and ecosystems. The degree to which these effects are negative depends on how we site and develop these projects, identify impacts, and avoid, minimize, or mitigate significant adverse impacts.
Communications
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How we use information is as important as the integrity of the information itself. We're challenged to use science as a basis of information and at the same time to help people feel a connection to the natural world. Inviting others to experience that world is also an important form of communication.
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