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AloTerra provides a wide range of natural resource and restoration services for private land owners, and for local, state, and federal agencies:

Post-fire restoration planning and implementation

Habitat restoration

Road obliteration

Erosion control

River restoration planning and implementation

Vegetation surveys

Ecological restoration is much more than spreading seeds and walking away. True restoration requires treatments that focus on ecological processes and functions. As such, restoration requires a multi-disciplinary approach, a commitment to sound project management, a clear understanding of the client’s vision, and a dedication to long-term results. With significant experience in Ecological Restoration and Natural Resources Project Management, AloTerra and our strategic partners give clients a wide range of restoration and natural resource services that go beyond simply “greening” degraded areas.

AloTerra founder: John Giordanengo has been engaged in ecological restoration and natural resource management for over 19 years in Colorado and Wyoming. Co-founder of the Big Thompson River Restoration Coalition and the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed, he has a commitment to collaborative process for regional restoration planning and implementation. Serving on several local restoration and natural resources boards and committees, John is committed not only to planning and designing restoration projects, but helping to advance the restoration industry. His dedication to the restoration of riparian habitats throughout Colorado earned him the 2010 Excellence in Riparian Management Award, Colorado Riparian Association. (Read John's bio here.)

AloTerra's mission ...

is to create ecological restoration solutions that maintain biologically diverse and highly functioning landscapes within the context of community needs.

Contact Information

From local parks to watershed scale projects we help individuals, communities and agencies with restoration solutions that make sense for the land.

AloTerra Restoration Services, LLC

PO Box 212

Fort Collins, CO 80522

970-420-7346

We are excited to announce that our owner, John Giordanengo, is among the first Restoration Ecologists in the nation to be recognized as a Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner (CERP) by the Society For Ecological Restoration (SER). For more information on the CERP program CLICK HERE.

Join Our Team!

AloTerra is currently seeking a Restoration Ecologist. For more information on how to apply CLICK HERE.

Crew For Hire!

Do you need a crew to implement your restoration project? Hire our experienced field crew to help make your project a success. For more information CLICK HERE.

Recent Projects and News

2014 Project Recap: & 2015 Highlights

AloTerra is grateful to all of our clients this year who supported restoration design and implementation as an important part of land management:

AloTerra is nearing final production of Living Streambanks: A Manual of Bioengineering Treatments for Colorado Streams." Thanks to Rocky Mountain Flycasters and the Colorado Water Cosnervation Board for their commitment to and support of this project. And a big thank you to the dozens of authors who contributed content to this manual. We anticipate final production in March, 2016.

JW Associates and Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed: AloTerra has joined JW Associates to provide post-fire watershed monitoring and analysis, stakeholder engagement and restoration design for unmet needs in the Cache La Poudre River Watershed. AloTerra is also working with JW and CPRW to develop a watershed resiliency master plan for the Poudre watershed above the canyon mouth.

Colorado Trout Unlimited , USFWS, and CPW: These clients are supporting fish passage and sediment solutions for ditch diversions on the lower Big Thompson River, as well as conceptual restoration design plans on 5 of the top 10 priority reaches identified in the Big Thompson River Restoration Master Plan. AloTerra is honored to be working with Otak and some pioneering land owners and ditch companies to develop 30% designs for fish passage and ehanced river function.

Rocky Mountain Flycasters: AloTerra and Golder Associates are working to plan and implement RMF's multi-basin river restoration grant with the Colorado Water Conservation Board. This project focuses on three important post-flood programs in Larimer and Boulder County: Riparian vegetation development program; Biotechnical slope protection design manual; and Restoration skills training program for conservation corps and volunteer groups.

Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed: AloTerra and Natural Resource Services Inc completed final designs and is nearing final construction for full flooplain restoration of Skin Gulch, a tributary to the Poudre River Watershed. Significantly impacted by debris flows following the 2012 High Park Fire, and again after the 2013 flood event, Skin Gulch is off to a great path to recovery after just one season of treatments. Enhanced capacity, connectivity to the floodplain, and plant community diversity are just a few of the outcomes to date. Thanks to Larimer County Conservation Corps and Wildlands Restoration Volunteers for their great work to help implement treatments.

Water Valley Land Company: AloTerra is proud to provide final design services for the South Hill Wetland Mitigation Project, part of a farm-to table development south of Windsor in the Poudre River Watershed.

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers: AloTerra was thankful to provide an alpine rare plant survey at Boreas Pass for Wildlands Restoration Volunteers.

White River National Forest: Working with John Proctor (Botanist, WRNF) is a treat in and of itself. This year, AloTerra staff provided WRNF with an intensive (10,000+ acres) survey of over 50 ponds and creek crossings in the remote Morapos Creek Grazing Allotment on the western edge of the Flat Tops Wilderness.

JW Associates and City of Greeley: Working with this great team, AloTerra provided design services for the prioritization of wood shred mulch treatments in the High Park Fire Burn area, and developed gulley stabilization treatments in Unnamed 3, a high priority subwatershed above the Monroe Tunnel on the Cache La Poudre River.

BLM, Canyon City: AloTerra completed a conceptual design for 20 acres of reclaimed gravel pits in the Great Blue Heron Reservoir area along the Arksansa River floodplain.

ESCO Associates: Working aside ESCO staff and Cedar Creek Associates staff to conduct Phase III bond release vegetation monitoring for a coal mine in NE Colorado was equivalent to botany heaven!