Thomas Estes Email & Phone Number

Mr. Estes presently serves as the Principal and Senior Project Manager of Icarus Ecological Services. He has eleven years of industry experience in regulatory and environmental affairs, leading large scale environmental entitlement efforts for The St. Joe Company, a publicly traded real estate development and timber company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In addition Mr. Estes has six years experience in private sector consulting, business development and management and over three years research experience. As a project manager, Mr. Estes’s primary responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of natural resources projects, including developing feasible alternatives, permitting, water quality analysis, regulatory coordination and construction oversight. He is also experienced with wetland delineation and permitting, threatened and endangered species studies, wetland restoration and creation and mitigation banking. He is a recognized expert in mitigation banking and Ecosystem Management Agreements (EMAs), and has a long history working with agency project managers and decision makers from Pensacola to Tampa, Cocoa and Vero. Mr. Estes is a native of Tallahassee, FL.

In his role as Director, Mr. Estes led environmental permitting efforts across all product classes including Commercial, Residential, Institutional, Resort, Industrial and Timber. He created, permitted, operated and managed two mitigation banks including sales and marketing, creating a new business line in the process. Mr. Estes acquired the environmental permits for many DRI and PUD projects across Florida, including; Sarasota, Deland, St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Port St. Joe, Mexico Beach, Panama City Beach and Santa Rosa Beach. Most notably he authored and directed EMA I and II in Bay and Walton counties, creating a watershed level regulatory mechanism / regional economic development framework covering over 90,000 acres which won the USFWS Regional Director’s Conservation Award 2005.

Education record

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General