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Natural Resources Group, Inc.

Forest Halford is the Chief Executive Officer of Natural Resources Group, Inc., and has over 25 years of professional experience in the environmental, agriculture, and real estate industries. Forest assists clients with leasehold management and lease valuation, represents buyers and sellers in property purchase and sale, and advises investment funds, corporations, university endowments, private landowners, renewable energy companies, and mitigation banking entrepreneurs on a wide range of real estate matters. In addition to a comprehensive evaluation of the land itself, Forest has over 18 years of experience reviewing title condition and exceptions, and has solved complex encumbrances on title that severely restricted the rights of the fee title owner.

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Skip Moss is the Chief Strategic Officer for Natural Resources Group, Inc. He is a professional biologist with over thirteen years of experience in the field of mitigation planning and development, land management and ecological consulting. Skip has entitled over twenty separate conservation banks and custom mitigation projects, resulting in the permanent protection of over 18,000 acres of endangered species and wetland habitat. Skip has worked extensively with project proponents in the energy and transmission sectors, real estate development sector, transportation sector and military to develop mitigation projects that help clients fulfill permit requirements or build value on existing land holdings. Skip has broad expertise in both the development of conservation easements between private landowners and non-profit groups and in the calculation of endowments for the perpetual management of habitat preserves.