Northern Arizona University's Ecological Demonstration, Education and Training Center

To read the Ecosa Institute Student Brief, click here.

Northern Arizona University requested our assistance in designing a research facility for the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Foundation, a new non-profit to monitor the ecological health of the Coconino Plateau. Located on a portion of the old Wild Bill Ranch in the Coconino National Forest it had to be totally self sufficient in power and other resources.

"Please accept this letter as only a token of our sincere appreciation for the wonderful and creative work that your students performed for us at Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Foundation and Program (EMA)

"Your students tackled an insurmountable problem with a client (me) who gave them little to start with. They took to heart our broad admonition to "let the land tell you what to do with it." They succeeded beyond any of our wildest expectations.

"The students captured the "spirit" of the site through thoroughly professional and meticulous research. Using the nearly unperceivable historical remnants of the railroad spur as the unifying element was pure genius.

"I have been involved in hundreds of development projects in my industrial career. This was one of the top creative groups of young people that I have worked with in a long, long time.

"We, at EMA, look forward to working with ECOSA during the next phases of the development process of the "Wild Bill Ranch Ecological Station".

"Again, our sincere gratitude and congratulations on a job that far exceeded our expectations."

Thomas Rogers PE, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Construction Management, NAU CET
EMA Development Manager for the
"Wild Bill Ranch Ecological Station"