Desierto Verde
Environmental ServicesArizona, United States51-200 Employees
Desierto Verde is a mid-sized environmental services company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, founded in the early 1980s and focused on environmentally sensitive landscaping and site development. It restores, grows, transplants, and maintains native plant material to support sustainable landscapes as development proceeds. The firm developed the Boxing Methodology to salvage and relocate large native vegetation, enabling the relocation of trees such as Ironwood, Palo Verde, and Mesquite. This approach helped establish water-efficient landscape standards and influenced municipal practice, with Scottsdale adopting the method in 1986 and other Arizona cities such as Phoenix, Mesa, and Peoria following. Desierto Verde continues to pursue innovative ways to salvage and manage the desert landscape, employing a range of methods from advanced techniques to traditional fieldwork to advance environmental preservation.