Titlow Ecological Services is owned and operated by Budd Titlow. Budd is a Professional Wetland Scientist (Society of Wetland Scientists # 754), Professional Wildlife Biologist (Master of Science, Virginia Tech), Regulatory Compliance Specialist, and Ecological Group Manager. During the past 30 years, Budd has amassed a wealth of experience with the federal government and as a private consultant.
Budd’s federal experience involves an array of public infrastructure and resource conservation projects; including hydro-electric pumped storage reservoirs, wind farms, natural gas pipelines, regional coal-mining/oil and gas development plans, wild and scenic river/new area studies, endangered species mitigation plans, and natural resource inventory/facility management plans for five national parks.
Budd has supervised environmental science staffs for private consulting firms and projects throughout New England. His workload included more than 500 different projects, ranging from regional shopping malls, “big box” retail plazas, office/industrial business parks, mixed-use subdivisions, interstate highways and municipal/international airports to wetland restoration designs, rare/endangered species investigations, wildlife habitat enhancement plans, vegetation management plans, and natural resource “existing condition” surveys.
During the past three years, Budd has worked in North Carolina as a private consultant, with an emphasis on stream-wetland delineation, impact assessment, mitigation design, and compliance permitting as well as wildlife habitat enhancement plans. To date, Budd’s primary North Carolina projects are the Umstead Hotel on the SAS Campus in Cary, Dolly/Randy Parton Family Entertainment Center in Roanoke Rapids, Randleigh Farms Mixed-Use Development in Raleigh, Town Transportation Center in Chapel Hill, Granville Central High School in Stem, and the City of Sanford’s Sanitary Sewer System Improvement Project. While in North Carolina, he also coordinated wetland/stream delineation and mitigation for the world-famous Homestead Preserve Residential Community in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Budd is a national/international award-winning writer and photographer who always places a premium on producing well-written documents that communicate the scientific/technical facts in an easy-to-understand format. Consulting success depends on effective communication with both professional (state/federal) regulatory personnel and the community volunteers who serve on local boards and commissions. Budd has prepared hundreds of technical environmental permitting documents, ranging from EA-FONSI’s to multi-volume EIS’s. Budd’s publication credits also include 25 technical journal articles; 100 magazine photo-essays; 5,000 photographs; two books; and a variety of corporate brochures, marketing materials, and annual reports. His latest book, Seashells: Jewels from the Ocean, is being marketed worldwide by Voyageur Press.
Budd has been the lead presenter at hundreds of public hearings with municipal boards and commissions. Public speaking skill is also essential to successful consulting. A public hearing in front of a municipal board or commission is the culmination of work on a project. To get an approval, the project team must explain the details and nuances of the proposal to the satisfaction of the commissioners or board members, most of whom are community volunteers. Budd has also served as an expert witness for several adjudicatory hearings on wetland functions/values, wildlife habitat impacts, and endangered species mitigation. Additionally, Budd has prepared more than 50 multi-media programs for presentation to annual conferences, monthly meetings, and specialty workshops throughout the United States, including 10 recent presentations to professional organizations in North Carolina’s Triangle Area.
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Elected to Board of Directors, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
- Merit Award Winner, BBC International Wildlife-Photographer-of-the-Year, London, England
- Conservationist-of-the-Year, Sudbury Valley Trustees, Maynard, MA
- Co-Founder, Sudbury Valley Nature Photographers, Wayland, MA
- Artist-in-Residence, The Ford Plantation, Savannah, GA
- Charter Member, North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA), Wheatridge, CO
- Merit Award Winner, National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA
- Merit Award Winner, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA
- Merit Award Winner, Nature’s Best Magazine, Reston, VA
- Grand Prize for Color Photography, Kodak International Awards, Rochester,NY
- Employee-of-the-Year, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO
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