Midfield Terminal Expansion - Project Millennium
Southwest Florida International Airport’s Project Millennium is the largest Capital Improvement Project in the history of Southwest Florida. Johnson Engineering’s Environmental Department was responsible for providing environmental services required at the project site and the 7,000-acre offsite mitigation area. The extensive habitat mapping, species surveys, water level data and habitat evaluations formed the input for the overall Mitigation Park management plan. Johnson Engineering collected and analyzed all of the relevant data to prepare the Mitigation Park plan that consists of 500-acres of wetland creation, monitoring, controlled burns and maintenance.

Florida Gulf Coast University
Johnson Engineering provides ecological monitoring and environmental permitting services required at the University. This includes implementation of an intensive mitigation plan that includes wetland creation, wetland restoration, upland and wetland enhancement. Johnson Engineering regularly conducts wildlife surveying for the eastern indigo snake, and has developed and implemented a bird flight path monitoring protocol.

Post-Restoration Monitoring - Kissimmee River Restoration Project
The South Florida Water Management District is working to restore a portion of the historic flood plain of the Kissimmee River Corridor. By doing this, areas that are now appropriate habitat for the crested caracara may become flooded. The Johnson Engineering environmental team was selected by the SFWMD to conduct post-restoration monitoring of the caracara population within the KRC to study how they adapt to large habitat changes across this significant part of the population’s range. Post-restoration monitoring focused on providing additional data on the use of the KRC by both breeding and non-breeding crested caracaras.

Shadow Wood Preserve Mitigation Monitoring
The Johnson Engineering Environmental team performed wetland mitigation monitoring as required by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permit and SFWMD Environmental Resource Permit for the 422-acre development of Shadow Wood Preserve. The mitigation plan consists of a combination of onsite and offsite mitigation. Onsite mitigation includes 85-acres of wetland preservation, 13-acres of upland preservation, 30-acres of wetland enhancement and 2-acres of wetlands restoration/creation, as well as 1-acre of littoral shelves created around the perimeter of the western most stormwater management lakes and planted with native wetland vegetation. Offsite mitigation was conducted on State lands and included wetland enhancement and restoration, and wetland creation totaling 60-acres.