Good Ground is a family owned and operated environmental services consulting firm. Our primary staff includes Robert Wiley, Hunter Wiley and Sally Jo Wiley
Robert Wiley, Good Ground, LLC President, has more than 45 years experience in ecological data collection and analysis, founded Good Ground LLC as a southeastern Ohio soil and wetland assessment service in 2005. Mr. Wiley, our senior wetland scientist registered as a professional wetland scientist (PWS 00418) with the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS), member of the Soil Science Society of America and has for more than 45 years experience in land evaluation, land planning, landscape design, ecosystem restoration and land management conducted in Ohio and nationwide for private landowners, small and large corporations, and government agencies. He holds degrees in forestry, botany, geology and landscape architecture. Mr. Wiley a soil scientist/classifier certified by the Ohio Department of Health in 2015, He is a practicing forester, geomorphologist, GIS and GPS professional.
Hunter Wiley is a forester and soil classifier with more than 16 years of experience in biological and water quality field data collection. Hunter has degrees in forestry and environmental biology. He has served on and led field data collection teams for forestry data, macroinvertebrate data, soils data and water chemistry data for large projects in Missouri, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Texas and Oklahoma. He is trained in use of Trimble GPS equipment and total stations. He served as a crew member for a 6-month boat based survey of least tern sandbar habitat on more than 400 miles of the Arkansas, Cimarron, and Red Rivers. He has assisted in more than 3000 property soil surveys in Ohio. He is a member of the Society of Wetland Scientists, the Society of American Foresters, and the Soil Science Society of America.
Sally Jo Wiley is our controller and office manger and frequent field technician for forestry, wetlands and soil projects. Sally has a degree in Accounting and manages three separate businesses. She keeps us going to the right place at the right time.
