Featured Projects

Ecological and Environmental Consulting

With over a decade of professional experience in environmental stewardship, I have specialized in habitat restoration, the protection of threatened and endangered species, and the delineation and ecological assessment of wetlands and stream systems. My work has supported a wide range of ecological initiatives aimed at conserving natural resources, enhancing biodiversity, and maintaining compliance with environmental regulations. As a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyst, I contributed to the planning and environmental review of some of the largest natural gas pipeline projects in the Carolinas and along the East Coast. Additionally, I have played a key role in developing stewardship plans and regional strategic frameworks focused on land conservation, trail connectivity, and the planning and management of nature preserves and open spaces.

Carolina Thead Trail

Mulberry Maps worked with the Carolina Thread Trail  (https://www.carolinathreadtrail.org/) and Catawba Lands Conservancy (https://catawbalands.org/) in late 2022 to design trailhead signs for twelve (12) trails throughout their proposed 1,500+ mile trail network. These trailhead signs were installed in 2023 in several counties near Charlotte, North Carolina.

A special thank you goes to the Carolina Thread Trail Director and Land Conservation and Trail Projects Coordinator. You two were vital to the success of this project with sharing data, discussing project revisions, and getting such a gorgeous final set of trailhead maps.

This project is especially sentimental to me because I used a GPS to map the first 100 miles of trails in the Carolina Thread Trail network as an intern in college. This data collection was done for the first iteration of the Carolina Thread Trail's online map. Since then, the network has more than tripled and almost quadroupled in size and the online map has gotten a big upgrade.

The Carolina Thread Trail's online map can be viewed here: https://www.carolinathreadtrailmap.org/trails.