Service Providers

With over 25 local offices and a national footprint, we offer a wide and growing variety of consulting services, including: wetlands and stream studies, environmental design and ecosystem restoration, stormwater management and compliance, urban and community forestry, our proprietary TreeKeeper inventory management software, and invasive species management.

We understand the complex ecosystems, resource challenges, and regulatory concerns that impact the success of any environmental project. No matter the location—dense city core or a remote rural site—we leverage our creativity and expertise to deliver reliable, turn-key ecological consulting services. We combine the latest technologies with time-tested techniques to provide high-quality results in a timely and professional manner.

For over forty years Ferrucci & Walicki, LLC have been providing forest and land stewardship guidance to landowners of all kinds and sizes throughout the state and region. Our process begins with listening to what matters to the landowner and developing a long-term relationship with both the owner and the land. Using a combination of tools we help people understand the current conditions of their land and provide them recommendations to build on the strengths of the land to achieve their goals.

As an employee-owned firm, we foster personal relationships with our clients and cultivate our staff in a partnership model which is underpinned by continuous learning and sharing of knowledge. We retain proven recognized industry experts and attract the best young minds in the industry to deliver to our clients a refreshing blend of technical expertise, collaborative spirit and innovation that is rare in our profession.

GEI is consistently ranked among the top firms in Engineering News Record’s (ENR) annual list of Top Design Firms and Top Environmental Firms.

Education: BS Forest Resources Management SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY. BS Syracuse University
CT Certified Forester #113 since 1994 serving private forestland owners.
Technical Service Provider to USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service for over 10 years.

My experience includes open space planning, acquisition, and management as a municipal official, land trust board member, and private consultant. My primary area of environmental interest is studying southern New England’s dynamic landscape through historic research and geospatial analysis. Past work includes land surveying, GIS analysis and mapping (extensive), environmental planning, IWWC staff, firefighting, and consulting forestry.

Mosaic Eco-Solutions was birthed during COVID and parallel to the actual birth of our second child. As a working parent with two young children, it made sense that a small-scale independent consultant model could potentially align with both our work/life balance needs and contribution to the conservation community. The “Mosaic” is a reference to “mosaic of patches” which is a landscape pattern made up of distinct habitat patches, or areas with a specific size, shape, and characteristics including individual forest stands, farms, wetlands, shrubland patches, highways, or towns. The patches are set within a matrix, which is the “background ecological system” of the landscape. We believe that our company within our community within the region is working towards conserving, monitoring, and expanding the health of the landscape. Our vision is designing and developing patches in our backyards, in our forests, and anywhere that can benefit the health of our landscape ecosystems. We specialize in working with private landowners, developers, land trusts, municipalities, and all stakeholders that know the value provided by environmental systems around us, and hopefully next to us and within us.

Why do we believe in “buy local”? Active management and stable local food and natural resource markets are key to people’s wellbeing. These resources and products from resources are the base of local economies; therefore, purchasing local products keeps money in local communities. This means resiliency, accessibility, and equity.

Why walkable communities? Land has immediate and long term value; more so immediate with the current price of housing and rent. We think making decisions that affect the next generation is important; therefore, it only makes sense to conserve and keep natural landscapes undeveloped and unhoused. We think that high density, walkable communities allow this and can be the solution. Smaller footprint does not mean void of natural ecosystems. Rural town centers, existing city communities, previously developed industrial lots all have the potential to support walkable communities. Suburban sprawl and strip development need to be removed from zoning regulations; these are not natural systems and cause significant fragmentation to the landscape.

Why active management? It is clear that our past land use has impacted the natural landscape, it is even more clear that our current decisions are drastically impacting our natural landscape. There can be no more “preservation” as a rule of thumb. We need to accept “no action” as an active management strategy that might work in some areas. Look at the non-native invasive plants and insect species that are driving the landscape’s natural development, creating monocultures. We want to create a cooperative of private landowners that have natural and healthy functioning ecosystems, and we would like to use eco-types from these members to restore and diversify the landscape. Active management supports the local economy, local resources, local farmers, local energy sources, and most importantly the creation of mosaic of patches.

Agroforestry Systems include:

• Silvopasture (trees/grass/animals)
• Alley Cropping (trees/crops)
• Forest Gardens (complex, multilayered orchards)
• Forested Riparian Buffers (trees by the water)
• Windbreaks/Hedgerows (trees surrounding fields)
• Forest Farming (crops under a shady tree canopy)

Forestry includes:

• Forest Management Plans
• 480a Tax Assessment Plans in New York
• Inventory and Boundary Marking
• Silviculture Planning
• Timber Sales
• Habitat Improvement

Jeff started out in the construction industry after an enlistment in the US Coast Guard. After working as a laborer, equipment operator and commercial truck driver, Jeff went to Norwich University to earn his Civil Engineering degree. Since then, he earned his Connecticut Professional Engineer license and has worked on some of the biggest and most challenging construction projects in the USA and beyond. These projects include numerous contracts on the Big Dig in Boston, the Amtrak Electrification and hundreds of infrastructure projects across Connecticut.