Wetlands & Ecological Assessments

Turn-Key’s professional staff assists clients by providing Wetlands & Ecological Assessments and assisting with the complex permitting process.

Wetland Delineations
Ecological Studies
Terrestrial & Aquatic Habitat Evaluation
Stream Monitoring

Environmental Fun Facts

The tree canopy in the Amazon rainforest is so thick that it takes rain 10 minutes to trickle down to the ground.

As greenhouse gases rise, Earth’s remaining ice sheets such as Greenland and Antarctica are starting to melt as well. That extra water will raise sea levels significantly, and quickly.

Lightning strikes somehwere in the world about 100 times a second

A freshwater lake the size of Lake Ontario is hidden under nearly 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica

Tortoises can crawl about one mile an hour.

Spring moves 100 feet per day northward and 10 feet per day up a mountain.

Hummingbirds flap their wings up to 80 times a second.

The longest living organisms on Earth are trees

Over 20% of all fresh water on the planet is in a lake in Siberia, Lake Baikal

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is roughly the size of Italy.

One acre of soil can have more than a million worms living in it.

More than 100 miles of mining tunnels exist under Detroit, Michigan.

45,000 thunderstorms every day on earth

Each year winds blow about 40 million tons of dust from Africa’s Sahara to the Amazon River basin.

Greenhouse gases are higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

All of the earth’s land could fit in the Pacific Ocean

Crocodiles sometimes climb trees (Florida has both Crocodiles and Alligators)

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world’s countries combined

The Amazon rain forest is about twice the size of India.

If the dormant super volcano in Yellowstone National Park ever erupted, it would likely spew enough ash to cover all of North America.

The Pacific Ocean has more water than all other seas and oceans combined.

Beach sand has a melting point of 3000 F

Jellyfish can sting you even when they are dead.

Hummingbirds visit more than 1,000 flowers every day to keep themselves fed.

Some fossils of bacteria are three and a half billion years old

Osprey birds build nests big enough to fit an adult human inside

Louisiana is home to over 500,000 wild pigs.

Light travels 900,000 times faster than sound.

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