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Learn about our latest restoration & conservation efforts and discover how healthy land & aquatic resources benefit our communities across the US

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025

    Beaver Tail | Conservation Mitigation Easement

    Total Acres 34.4 Project Year 2024 Located in Lincoln County NC Unique Places to Save’s conservation easement over the Beaver Tail mitigation bank helped to permanently protect a successfully restored tributary to Howard’s Creek and include...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025

    Brooks Swamp | Conservation Mitigation Easement

    Total Acres 11.1 Project Year 2024 Located in Wayne County NC The Brooks Swamp conservation easement project has preserved multiple mitigation goals of enhancing water quality and ecological health in streams through the restoration and exp...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025

    High Hood | Conservation Mitigation Easement

    Total Acres 31.1 Project Year 2024 Located in Cumberland County TN The High Hood conservation easement will help protect the restoration of streams and wetlands that help mitigate watershed stressors and provide numerous water quality and e...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025

    Proctor Dairy | Conservation Mitigation Easement

    Total Acres 22.9 Project Year 2024 Located in Catawba County NC The permanent conservation of Wildland’s Proctor Dairy stream and wetland mitigation project will protect the enhancement of ecological integrity and water quality within the L...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025

    Bootstrap Wetland Mitigation Bank

    Total Acres 40.6 Project Year 2024 Located in Bessemer City NC Bootstrap is a mitigation bank that has overall goals to improve stream and riparian wetland function through stream restoration and riparian buffer re-vegetation over approxima...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, January 2025

    The Financial Basics of Conservation Easements

    Conservation easements are voluntary agreements landowners can utilize to permanently protect their property from incompatible uses. They also have fairly significant financial incentives that can benefit landowners by providing tax deducti...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, November 2024

    Upper Rocky Mitigation Bank

    Total Acres 42.7 Project Year 2020 Located near Charlotte NC The Upper Rocky restoration project restored and enhanced over 16 acres of wetlands and 8,000 linear feet of stream in an area experiencing increased suburban development pressure...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, October 2024

    Working Lands & Conservation

    Working lands conservation is a practice aimed at conserving natural resources and biodiversity while also sustaining productive agricultural or forestry activities and operations. It involves integrating conservation easements into working...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, October 2024

    Zunino Ranch Mitigation Bank

    Total Acres 338 Project Year 2024 Located in Elko County Nevada Zunino Ranch Conservation Credit System Project is part of the Sagebrush Ecosystem Program (SEP) in Nevada. The SEP was legislatively established in 2013 and worked to develop ...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, October 2024

    Working Lands & Mitigation

    At first glance, mitigation and working lands may not seem compatible. People might believe that conducting stream and wetland mitigation work adjacent to working lands will reduce or limit agricultural production. If planned correctly, mit...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, September 2024

    Gulf Coast Plains Wetland Mitigation Bank

    Total Acres 464 Project Year 2024 Located in Chambers County Texas The goals of the Gulf Coast Plains Wetland Mitigation Bank are the following: To restore historically occurring, high quality, tidal and freshwater wetland and aquatic habit...

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    ‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, September 2024

    What is Mitigation Banking?

    A mitigation bank is a site where wetlands, streams, or other natural habitats are restored, enhanced, or preserved to compensate for or offset negative impacts to similar ecosystems elsewhere within a defined geography. These negative impa...

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