Kevin Stone
Kevin Stone is the Principal Investigator for IES’s cultural resources department. Mr. Stone received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Abilene Christian University and Master of Arts in Anthropology from Texas Tech University. He is responsible for developing and implementing cost effective strategies to ensure historic and prehistoric cultural resources are considered during the design phase of a given project. Over the last seven years, Mr. Stone has drafted countless reports under contract and in coordination with numerous political subdivisions, private contractors, and landowners to provide assistance in navigating the obstacles surrounding cultural resources and the permitting process. Mr. Stone believes that by becoming aware of cultural resources, and the potential pitfalls surrounding them, parties dealing with cultural resources can more efficiently navigate the process and complete the project without further delays. Mr. Stone remains active in the archeological community, as he is a member of the Texas Archeological Society, Council of Texas Archeologists, and is a Registered Professional Archeologist. Kevin Stone lives in Denton, Texas with his wife and two dogs. When not working, Kevin enjoys spending time with his wife, staying active outdoors, and working on his car. Mr. Stone recently hiked to the famous archeological ruins in Machu Picchu, Peru.
Mitigation Futures Conservancy was formed by environmental professionals that have observed the redistribution of valuable resources from within the overall landscape to large-scale mitigation sites over the last ten years. Mitigation Futures Conservancy is staffed purely by volunteer environmental professionals, all with extensive experience throughout the Texas ecosystems. 
Our Focus – Is to assist developers with small mitigation sites to provide long term monitoring and protection, which benefits the economics of area through development, as well as maintaining and enhancing small pockets of urban wildlife and water quality areas.
Mitigation Futures Conservancy was established by environmental professionals that realize the value of smaller mitigation sites. Small mitigation sites provide significant values to the overall ecosystem that cannot be forgotten. These small sites, although they usually provide reduced functions than that of a larger site, do provide incremental ecosystem functions to the ever diminishing naturally functioning systems. Our focus is to provide an opportunity for protection of these sites so that they will not be lost.
Our vision is to provide protection for mitigation sites throughout Texas, regardless of size. Our conservation easements can provide long-term protection for habitat, unique and rare plant communities or assemblages of plant communities, and mitigation sites. There are many types of mitigation sites and Mitigation Futures Conservancy works with the lead Federal and State agencies to provide the necessary long-term protection and monitoring to demonstrate that the mitigation site is maintaining the desired ecosystem functions.
