CCES -- Jason J. Husveth

Jason Husveth originally incorporated CCES in 2000, with the goal of providing sound scientific expertise to local municipalities, state and federal governments, and select private landowners with an interest in natural resource conservation, restoration, and management. His educational background includes a B.S. in Environmental Planning and Design (Rutgers University) and a M.S. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota. His graduate research focused on the impacts of urban storm water and watershed urbanization on native wetland plant communities and the development of wetland bio-indicators for wetland systems (depressional wet meadows, floodplain forests, wet prairies, and riparian wetlands) throughout Minnesota.

Following completion of his graduate studies in 1999, Jason has worked as an environmental consultant throughout the Midwestern United States. He has conducted natural resource inventories for local municipalities, has completed over 200,000 acres of land cover classification within the Minneapolis/Saint Paul metropolitan counties and greater Minnesota, and has developed mitigation plans, restoration designs, conservation development designs, and greenway and open space plans for city and regional park systems.

Jason’s primary foci at CCES are on restoration ecology, natural resource assessment, regional open space planning, conservation development, and endangered species conservation. Jason is well recognized in the field of botany, having discovered and documented over two hundred new populations of plants that are categorized as special concern, threatened, or endangered throughout the Midwest. Additionally, he has documented numerous county record plant occurrences and one new state record plant species in Minnesota (Aristida longespica var. geniculata), currently considered for listing as Threatened or Endangered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Jason Husveth is the past president of the Minnesota Native Plant Society, having served in this capacity since 2002. Jason leads numerous botanical field trips in Minnesota each year, with the emphasis including: identification of spring ephemeral species, rare species identification, sedges of Minnesota, and identifying plants in the winter. Mr. Husveth serves on Minnesota's Regional Greenways Collaborative steering committee, where he heads the Natural Resources Management committee. Mr. Husveth has received awards from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Metro Greenways Program and the National Park Service MNNRA River Steward Program.

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