Ecotrust Consulting Initiatives
Ecotrust offers a wide range of natural resource, business and research, and analysis services. ECI serves individuals, businesses, and organizations seeking to take advantage of opportunities to improve social equity and environmental integrity while building economic security and profitability.
Combining the expertise of Ecotrust's core professional staff with that of a network of partners and specialists, we provide practical and timely solutions to challenges and opportunities. In addition to fee-based consulting and project management, we offer training, workshops, and conference services.
Thriving businesses avoid regulatory obstacles by actively improving returns to environmental and social as well as economic capital — the triple bottom line. Ecotrust offers comprehensive, business-specific solutions for improving the efficiency of resource management and for connecting producers to markets. We provide:
- Community Mapping
- Market Assessment
- Watershed Restoration
- Policy Analysis
- Conservation GIS Training
- Eco-effectiveness Assessment & Training
- Information Technology Services
- GIS Development and Analysis
- Strategic Planning
In the new economy there is a growing recognition that sustainable forests, farms, and fisheries are key assets. Utilizing the management and land-use expertise offered by Ecotrust, businesses and communities can look forward to productive, long-term returns.
Our clients include:
- Alaska Rainforest Campaign
- Bureau of Water Works
- Bureau of Land Management
- Cascade Pacific RC&D
- Clackamas River Basin Council
- Coos Watershed Association
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Forest Community Research
- Foundation for a Sustainable Society (FSSI)
- Institute for Sustainable Communities
- The Larch Company
- Metro
- The M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- The Northwest Area Foundation
- Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
- Oregon State University
- Sea Resources
- South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Tualatin River Watershed Council
- Wild Salmon Center
- The Willapa Alliance
