Restoring Your Land for Nature
Transform your property into a thriving habitat for the wildlife and plants you value most.
Restoring Your Land for Nature
Transform your property into a thriving habitat for the wildlife and plants you value most.
About Us
Wren Restoration is an outgrowth of our love for our land and our passions for planning, ecological restoration, and conservation. Together, we have over 30 years of experience in conservation, site and land planning, permitting, and project management. With our backgrounds in wildlife science, education, public policy, community planning, non-profits, biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, and land development permitting, we bring a unique perspective to your project. Our expertise in habitat restoration and native planting allows us to work closely with you to realize your vision and implement your plan.
Our Services
Wren Restoration provides tailored, conservation-focused, end-to-end land services aimed at conservation organizations, smaller landowners, and others seeking an integrated planning-management approach to their lands, including bird habitat improvement.
We listen to your goals and also pay attention to your land—its position within the larger landscape, the ecological types present or that have existed. Our aim is to equip landowners with the tools necessary to achieve their goals within the appropriate landscape-scale, conservation, and ecological contexts, particularly in habitat restoration and native gardening.
Wren Restoration offers the following services:
- Writing land management plans
- Invasive species management
- Habitat restoration, creation, and management
- Access and trail design, installation, and maintenance
- Vegetation management (e.g., mowing, brush-hogging)
- Conservation-oriented consulting services to landowners
- Support for grants applications and applying tax incentive programs
Projects
Invasive Species Management – Bender Melon Farm, Voorheesville, NY
Invasive Species Management – Bender Melon Farm, Voorheesville, NY
We provided assistance to the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy (MHLC) as part of a federally-funded habitat restoration project. Our services included the removal of invasive species such as multi-flora rose, buckthorn, autumn olive, and honeysuckle from about 10 acres of MHLC’s Bender Melon Farm preserve, following a comprehensive management plan that supports native plant restoration initiatives.
Parking Lot Regrading, Drainage, and Vegetation Management
Invasive Species Management – Bender Melon Farm, Voorheesville, NY
This project involved reworking a roughly 4,000 sf heavily-used stone parking area that serves as the trailhead for a local preserve in Albany County. To eliminate standing water and potholes, we established a new slope using existing material. Additionally, we cut in a small drainage swale and reestablished the vegetation line around the lot.
Preserve Maintenance
Preserve Maintenance
We provide Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy (MHLC) assistance with managing their Montgomery and Albany County preserves, focusing on habitat restoration and enhancing bird habitat. Our services include trail mowing, parking area maintenance, and trail clearing. One of the challenges at the Mosher Marsh preserve in Amsterdam, NY, is an increase in beaver activity that has reduced access to about half of the trail system. Maintaining these portions of the trail system requires additional effort and lighter equipment due to access limitations.
Contact Us
We look forward to hearing from you and discovering how we can help make your property goals a reality, whether it’s enhancing bird habitat or focusing on removing invasive species to promote natives, we are here to help !
~ Adam Yagelski, Owner
