Wetlands & Ecological Assessments

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

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

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

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

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.

Hummingbirds flap their wings up to 80 times a second.

The longest living organisms on Earth are trees

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

Beach sand has a melting point of 3000 F

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

Jellyfish can sting you even when they are dead.

Light travels 900,000 times faster than sound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louisiana is home to over 500,000 wild pigs.

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

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