| Michael Scisco, March 2025
Cox Pond | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 24.3 Project Year 2022 Located in Wayne County North Carolina The Cox Pond Conservation Easement is a 24-acre mitigation project by Wildlands Engineering Inc in Wayne County, North Carolina, designed to restore riparian buffers ...
| Michael Scisco, February 2025
Bandit Farms | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 17.5 Project Year 2023 Located in Orange County NC The Bandit Farms Conservation Easement is a 17-acre project by RestorEcology dedicated to protecting and restoring critical riparian and wetland areas in the Upper New Hope Arm ...
| Michael Scisco, February 2025
Hickory Jack | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 72.2 Project Year 2025 Located in Perry & Cape Girardeau Counties in MO The Hickory Jack Conservation Easement is located along Apple Creek in Cape Girardeau and Perry Counties. The project encompasses 72 acres of diverse landsc...
| Michael Scisco, February 2025
Unique Places to Save Completes First Conservation Easement in Missouri
Unique Places to Save has reached a significant milestone in its conservation efforts with the successful completion of its first conservation easement in the state of Missouri. Known as the Hickory Jack Conservation Easement, this project ...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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...
| Christine Pickens, December 2024
The Mid-Reaches: Part Two on River Ecology & Conservation
Welcome back to our series on river ecology and conservation. This is a follow-up article to one published recently about headwater river ecology & conservation. If you haven’t read that yet, hop over there first! Otherwise, keep swimming d...
| Sam Warnock, December 2024
Building Natural Capital Through Conservation Easements: A Lasting Legacy
At Unique Places to Save, we work with landowners and communities to conserve land and aquatic resources with ecological, cultural, and economic value. One of the primary tools we use to achieve this is the conservation easement. A conserva...