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Evergreen
Field work on a wetland mitigation site

About us

We combine the discipline of a well run business with a passion for the environment.

Evergreen Environmental was formed for the purpose of building wetland and stream mitigation banks. We restore and enhance wetlands and streams with the goal of creating self-sustaining systems — beyond what the monitoring period and the guarantee require.

The partners

James R. Ingram

Partner

18+ years

Wetland delineation, permitting and design, with a focus on wetland mitigation banking.

Wide ranging experience in wetland delineation, permitting and design. His mitigation banking work spans North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and New Jersey, across both tidal and freshwater environments, alongside stream restoration in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Iowa.

  • NC
  • VA
  • KY
  • NJ
  • MD
  • PA
  • NE
  • IA

Mark Renna

President

23+ years

Ecological restoration, wetland mitigation banks, permits and aquatic ecology studies.

Specialises in ecological restoration, wetland mitigation banks, permitting and aquatic ecology studies, including bank establishment and mitigation design for tidal, palustrine forest, scrub-shrub and emergent wetlands. Projects across New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida, New York, West Virginia, Delaware, California and Arizona.

  • NJ
  • NC
  • FL
  • NY
  • WV
  • DE
  • CA
  • AZ

James R. Holt, Jr.

Partner

24+ years

A 24-year insurance career — Chief Underwriting Officer and Executive Vice President — brought to bear on the financial assurance side of banking.

Retired from a 24-year career with General Reinsurance Corporation and United States Liability Insurance Group, latterly as Chief Underwriting Officer and Executive Vice President. An avid outdoorsman who has been interested in the environment his entire life, he has volunteered on local wetland and stream restoration initiatives and studies Red Knot migration for the New Jersey Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Membership

National Mitigation Banking Association

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