WISE provides various environmental consulting services including natural channel design, stream and wetland restoration, erosion and sediment control, permitting, and riparian vegetation selection. They follow strict training principles and use software to design projects. WISE also operates a native plant nursery and specializes in permitting where resource and beneficiary needs can be met concurrently. They take a design-build-permitting-monitoring approach to improve permitting and mitigation effectiveness.

1. WISE analyses the existing (healthy) geomorphic land formations as
stable slopes. We published handbooks and taught short courses in 2002. We highly
recommend the above Landscape Arch webinar link as an introduction to Landform Grading.
Under streambank Restoration Under Streambank Stabilization (Consulting)
Landform Grading
Friday, December 18, 2009 1:03 PM

2. WISE provides Design-Build-Permitting and Monitoring for Natural Channel Designs only. We
follow strict Rosgen training principles and use Rivermorph® Software.
Stream Restoration
Friday, December 18, 2009 2:47 PM

3. WISE is a demucking specialist. We maintain a conscious protection of water quality and
ethical concerns for endemic species, special habitats, and the least possible intrusion into the
existing ecosystem.
http://www.landandwater.com/features/vol50no1/vol50no1_1.html
De‐mucking Ponds
Friday, December 18, 2009 2:58 PM

4. WISE delineates, designs, assist with designs, constructs, vegetates, and monitors wetlands. Our
project list includes Selmer TN wetlands, Dickson County Wetland, Metro Center wetland, Copper
Hill Wetlands and others. Look us up in the The Wetland Delineators
Association: Consultant Directory
Friday, December 18, 2009 3:16 PM

5. WISE provides design‐build‐permitting and maintenance through stabilization for all services requiring
work adjacent to lakes and streams including complete stream crossings. We can lay and concrete
encase, pipe furnished by you. We work with all permitting authorities and engineers to ensure a
professional project with all natural stream characteristics considered.
Coffer Dams‐Dewatering‐Stream Crossings
Friday, December 18, 2009 3:58 PM

6. WISE owns and operates a native riparian nursery. We grow only underwater to top of bank "native"
plants. We collect native seeds and cuttings and provide high quality live stakes for our best customers
from our permanent nursery stock.
Riparian Vegetation
Monday, December 21, 2009 9:45 AM

7. WISE specializes in permitting where the beneficiary is also the resource. If your needs and the
resource's needs can be met concurrently, we're your choice for permitting.
Permitting
Monday, December 21, 2009 10:20 AM

8. Gary Moody, CPESC – W.I.S.E. Hydrology
Concrete: 7 (Principle)
WPA, Consultant, Wetland Delineators Assoc.
Registrations & Certifications: Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control/2318
Mr. Moody has over 23 years experience with surface water lake resources. That experience includes
sediment and erosion control. It began while a principle with Cloud Concrete in 1983. Mr. Moody
became a Mirafi geotextile distributor and added North American Green Erosion Control in 1986. Mr.
Moody left Cloud Concrete to pursue Geotechnical and Erosion Control full time in 1986. He migrated
from product representation to product development, and finally, design. He started WISE Hydrology in
April 2008 and specializes in wetlands and stream mitigation design, and Section 401/404 Clean Water
Act permitting. He is responsible for all aspects of streams and wetlands mitigation design, including
E&SC, slope stabilization and natural drainage design utilizing Landform Grading. He is well known for
appropriate native species selection and planting plans, and all aspects of monitoring. He has significant
experience in preparing and processing Section 401/404 permits for various types of projects, ranging
from minor utility plans to large planned residential communities, and has extensive expertise in
AutoCAD, HydroCAD, USGS SWSTAT and TDOTv203, RIVERMorph, and slope stabilization software.
He has completed Rosgen / Wildland Hydrology’s stream restoration training courses (Levels I – IV).
Kyles Ford – Wallen's Bend – Testerman Hollow Stream Restoration Project; Clinch River Mile
191.5L and 189.4L, Hancock County, TN.
Contractor, SWPPP and slope stabilization designer combining natural and geotechnical products and
methods.
Project Length: 18,234 lf. Mitigation Treatment: Restoration, Enhancement I, Enhancement II. Key
Elements of Project:
Stream Channel Restoration
Stream Bank Enhancement
Bankfull bench, flood-prone area excavation and stabilization
In-stream habitat enhancement
The project was constructed while protecting 48 imperiled and vulnerable species, including 12
species of mussels and fish listed by the USFWS as threatened or endangered at or near the project area.
Wallen's Bend was constructed using natural channel design. The Erosion and Sediment Control Plan
including execution was an AWRA presentation in 2007. Visit our link to TSMP for additional
information on this project.
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10. WISE design-build-permitting-monitoring approach improves the effectiveness of the
permitting/mitigation process. WISE recognizes opportunities and establishes benchmarks
based on biogeochemical science, desired function, and habitat including native plant
communities. Our monitoring is not just a reported assessment, it's about reaching and
exceeding thresholds.
Stream and Wetland Monitoring
Monday, December 21, 2009 11:54 AM

11. WISE SWPPPs are designed to be effective. We neither over‐simplify nor complicate the process. We
design our SWPPPs to protect the environment, provide real security to persons downstream, and
insure water quality compliance. WISE SWPPPs are designed with site‐specific natural solutions and
include onsite training and monitoring.
SWPPP Preparation and Implementation
Monday, December 21, 2009 4:11 PM

12. WISE geomorphology and hydrology experience makes stream crossings safer and more
palatable to environmental agencies and groups. Our non-conventional approach replaces the
destructive, detrimental crossing with an indigenous crossing that respects the resource.
Stream Crossing Consulting
Monday, December 21, 2009 4:41 PM

13. WISE selects riparian vegetation based on existing field data, reference site native plants and an
atlas of TN plants. Planting Plans are developed using base level assessment data complied from
soils, water, and plant tissue samples tested and landform grading plans. Program management is
incorporated into the biological evaluation of collected test data and hydrological data reviewed
after construction.
Selecting Riparian Vegetation
Monday, December 21, 2009 5:26 PM