In his 25th year at Skelly and Loy, A Terracon Company, Ben Berra has been providing environmental and biological consulting services throughout Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region since completing his studies at Shippensburg University in 1998. Today he serves as a Principal and Department Manager for Natural Resources in Skelly and Loy’s Harrisburg Office where his practice focuses on environmental investigations, analysis, permitting, and liability management; threatened and endangered species studies and consultations; and aquatic and terrestrial biological evaluations.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geoenvironmental Studies from Shippensburg University in 1996 and went on to receive his Master of Science degree, also in Geoenvironmental Studies, from Ship in 1998. He was raised in Cumberland County, and continues to live in the county with his wife, Laura, and their two children.