About ELS
Landscape Architecture
Environmental Planning
ELS’s Landscape Architects base their designs on environmentally sound principles and experience to complete sensible, economically sound and successful projects. Our Landscape Architecture provides a full range of services from site evaluation, design development, construction documents to construction administration. We express our designs through the preparation of Conceptual Studies, Layout Plans, Grading Plans, Landscape Plans and Erosion and Sediment Control Plans.
ELS’s wide range of projects have been located at various land uses such as airports, golf courses, schools, nature centers, parks, wildlife sanctuary, residential, subdivision, commercial, retail and multifamily.
ELS’s Landscape Architects are often requested to represent projects before Planning & Zoning Boards, Zoning Board of Appeals, Architectural Review Commissions and Historic District Commissions.
ELS’s Landscape Architects are licensed within the states of Connecticut and New York.
ELS’s environmental analysts rely on their wide range of education and experience to provide valued environmental planning services. ELS’s environmental analysts are specialized in preparing concise environmental assessment and Coastal Area Management reports, natural resource inventories, wildlife studies, vernal pool identifications, habitat enhancement plans, tidal wetland delineation, wetland mitigation planning, regulatory permitting, erosion control and site monitoring for permit compliance.
To complete our projects, ELS’s environmental planners often appear before inland wetland agencies, conservation commission, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Our clients include Audubon Greenwich and Audubon Connecticut, Great River Golf Course, and municipalities including the City of Bridgeport Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency.
ELS’s employees Professional Wetland Scientists, Certified Professional in Soil Erosion and Sediment Control and NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professional.
Our Team
MATTHEW J. POPP
Landscape Architect / Professional Wetland Scientist
Matthew has been practicing within the Landscape Architecture profession since 1987 and is also a Professional Wetland Scientist. His approach to landscape design is based on his interest of land stewardship, plant communities and wildlife habitats. Matthew has a Master’s of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture degree from the University of Connecticut.
KATE THROCKMORTON
Landscape Architect / Professional in Soil Erosion and Sediment Control
Kate is a Landscape Architect and Certified Professional in Soil Erosion and Sediment Control. Kate is also a NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professional. She has a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Design from the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Cove Island Award
During the 1990s, the city of Stamford planned to remake Cove Island Park, an 11-acre wasteland used to store the city’s landscape debris, into an area for active recreation. Yet the waterfront dump contained diverse habitats and was an important stopover point for migrating birds. Birders feared that this valuable wildlife area would be destroyed.
Click below to read how ELS created an award-winning wildlife sanctuary to preserve local habitats and the migration of in-transit birds.
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