One of the most unique aspects of AVC is our abitlity to provide clients with a firm capable of carrying a project from start to finish. By blending environmental science with resource management, AVC offers a firm that can mediate permitting, develop mitigation options, design mitigation areas, conduct plantings (or supervise planting), produce compliance monitoring plans, conduct compliance monitoring, and perform mitigation area maintenace. This scenario is also true for ecological restoration projects.

Since establishment in 1986, AVC has broadened its scope of services to include:   

                            Aquatic Vegetation Control 
                            - golf course waterways 
                            - utility and road right-of-ways 
                            - drainage right-of-ways 
                            - urban waterways 

                            Nuisance/Exotic Vegetation Control  
                            - invasive plant management within natural areas 
                            - utility and road right-of-ways 
                            - drainage right-of-ways 
                            - urban waterways 

                            Ecosystem Restoration and Mitigation 
                            - restoration, management, and monitoring plan preparation and implementation
                            - native species planting
                            - invasive plant maintenance

                            Ecological Resource Assessment 
                            - vegetation resource mapping
                            - threatened or endangered species surveys
                            - critical habitat analysis
                            - aquatic macroinvertebrate studies 
                            - fisheries investigations

                            Terrestrial Vegetation Control
                            - DOT right-of-ways
                            - pipeline right-of-ways
                            - plant growth regulators 
                           
                            Surface Water and Groundwater Quality Studies 

                            Lake Management
                              - professional consultation
                              - turbidity control
                              - biological control 
                              - aeration systems and fountains 

                            Integrated Pest Management
                            - mechanical removal of nuisance vegetation
                            - bacterial and enzymatic nutrient removal
                            - grass carp introductions