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| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Rosewood | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 47.5 Project Year 2022 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The major goals of the the Rosewood Conservation Mitigation Easement proposed buffer mitigation and nutrient offset project are to provide ecological and...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Black Dirt | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 28.6 Project Year 2022 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The major goals of the the Black Dirt Conservation Mitigation Easement proposed buffer mitigation and nutrient offset project are to provide ecological a...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Anderson Farm | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 16.95 Project Year 2022 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The major goals of the the Anderson Farm Conservation Mitigation Easement proposed buffer mitigation and nutrient offset project are to provide ecologic...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Thoroughfare Swamp | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 23.55 Project Year 2019 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Thoroughfare Swamp Conservation Mitigation Easement is 23 acres of former open row crop fields turned dense riparian buffer for the Thoroughfare Swa...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Scarborough | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 231.19 Project Year 2020 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Scarborough Conservation Mitigation Easement is located in the Inner Coastal Plain Physiographic Region of North Carolina, near the town of Goldsbo...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
McClenney Acres | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 77.41 Project Year 2020 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The McClenny Acres Conservation Mitigation Easement is a beautiful, open, native wetland landscape that was re-established from from agricultural fields...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Long Pond Branch | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 36.1 Project Year 2021 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Long Pond Branch Conservation Mitigation Easement has been significantly impacted by surrounding land use activities. The degraded stream banks and f...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Hollowell | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 72.05 Project Year 2019 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Hollowell Conservation Mitigation Easement near Goldsboro, North Carolina is a spread out property surrounded by active row crop fields. The easemen...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Grantham Branch | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 68.29 Project Year 2018 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Grantham Branch Conservation Mitigation Easement is the second phase of the Falling Creek stream and wetland mitigation bank in Wayne County, NC. Th...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Falling Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 371.32 Project Year 2017 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Falling Creek Conservation Mitigation Easement is 371 acres of restored stream, wetland, and forest habitat situated in the middle livestock and ro...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Caraway Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 28.85 Project Year 2015 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Caraway Creek Conservation Mitigation Easement is nestled between active row crop fields. The easement property consists of restored riparian stream...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Buck Swamp | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 47.08 Project Year 2017 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Wayne County NC The Buck Swamp Conservation Easement is located near the town of Princeton, NC bordered by active row crop fields. The 47 acre Easement Property consist...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Dugger Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 777 Project Year 2019 Located in Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Watauga & Wilkes Counties NC The Dugger Creek Conservation Easement is located within the Blue Ridge Mountain region of North Carolina in the city of Boone. The Ease...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
White Buffalo | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 12.89 Project Year 2018 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Surry County NC The White Buffalo Conservation Mitigation Easement is situated along Jackson Creek which flows through a scenic backdrop of rolling hills, row ...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Toms Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 19.38 Project Year 2019 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Surry County NC The Toms Creek Tributaries Conservation Mitigation Easement is a part of the Yadkin 01 Umbrella Bank. Currently made up of two conservation eas...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Red Barn | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 25.41 Project Year 2019 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Mt Airy NC The Red Barn Conservation Mitigation Easement is located near Mount Airy, North Carolina in the rolling hills of the upper Piedmont region of NC. Th...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Plantation Branch | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 14.16 Project Year 2019 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Surry County NC The Plantation Branch Conservation Mitigation Easement protects reaches of Plantation Branch and four unnamed tributaries that flow through the...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Hair Sheep Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 12.42 Project Year 2020 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Surry County NC The Hair Sheep Creek Conservation Mitigation Easement is located in a valley between rolling hills of cattle pasture, fragmented forest, and so...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Grassy Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 13.14 Project Year 2019 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Surry County NC The Grassy Creek Tributaries Conservation Mitigation Easement is a part of the WLS Yadkin 01 Umbrella Bank. Currently made up of two conservati...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Gideon | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 11.23 Project Year 2019 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Surry County NC The Gideon Conservation Mitigation Easement is nestled in a beautiful open valley that was formerly agricultural pasture. The Easement Property...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Jigsaw | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 21.54 Project Year 2018 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Rowan County NC The Jigsaw Conservation Mitigation Easement is 21 acres of mature forested stream buffer along Second Creek, a beautiful rocky creek with resto...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Loflin Dairy | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 16.95 Project Year 2022 Located in the Cape Fear River Basin of Randolph County NC The major goals of the the Loflin Dairy Conservation Mitigation Easement proposed buffer mitigation and nutrient offset project are to provide ec...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Feed & Seed | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 27.58 Project Year 2021 Located in the Cape Fear River Basin of Randolph County NC The Feed and Seed Conservation Mitigation Easement, once restored, will be an oasis of riparian stream buffer and habitat amongst cattle pasture ...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Wolfe | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 23 Project Year 2022 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Person County NC The major goals of the the Anderson Farm Conservation Mitigation Easement proposed buffer mitigation and nutrient offset project are to provide ecological...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
White Hat | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 76.34 Project Year 2021 Located in the Pasquotank River Basin of Perquimans NC The White Hat mitigation project provides restoration and enhancement of Deep Creek, which is a tributary to the Little River. Restoration and enhanc...