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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Mitigation Credits 101: Understanding the Basics of Environmental Offsets

What Are Mitigation Credits? Mitigation credits are units of compensatory environmental value that are used to offset the impact of land development or other activities that cause damage to wetlands, streams, endangered species habitats, or...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Zeb Creek | Conservation Easement

Total Acres 23.6 Project Year 2024 Located in Rockingham County NC The Zeb Creek Conservation Easement is a restoration project in the Cape Fear River Basin developed with KCI. This project is focused on stream and wetland restoration, impr...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Tobacco Road | Conservation Easement

Total Acres 44.6 Project Year 2023 Located in Alamance County NC The Tobacco Road Conservation Easement is a mitigation project in North Carolina developed by Resource Environmental Solutions (RES). This project is designed to restore and p...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Salem | Conservation Easement

Total Acres 12.3 Project Year 2023 Located in Orange County NC The Salem Conservation Easement is a mitigation project being managed by WLS/Naturion designed to restore riparian buffers and improve water quality in the Neuse River Basin. De...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Perry Hill | Conservation Easement

Total Acres 15.4 Project Year 2023 Located in Orange County NC The Perry Hill II Conservation Easement is a restoration project being managed by Wildlands Engineering, Inc. within the Neuse River Basin. This site is part of a mitigation ban...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Green Mesa | Conservation Easement

Total Acres 32.5 Project Year 2023 Located in Yadkin County NC The Green Mesa Conservation Easement is a restoration project by Resource Environmental Solutions (RES) located within the Yadkin River Basin of North Carolina. This project foc...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, March 2025

Flat Rock | Conservation Easement

Total Acres 67.9 Project Year 2023 Located in Guilford County North Carolina The Flat Rock Conservation Easement is a mitigation project within the Cape Fear River Basin. As part of the Wildlands Engineering's Umbrella Mitigation Bank, this...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ 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 ...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ 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 ...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ 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...

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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, 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

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, 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, August 2024

Great Pee Dee Mitigation Bank

Total Acres 1,094 Project Year 2023 Located in Mason & Dillon Counties, SC The goal of the Great Pee Dee mitigation banking project is to preserve, enhance and restore streams and wetlands associated with the Great Pee Dee River, Mill Creek...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, August 2024

Pushmataha Bat Conservation Bank | Endangered Species

Total Acres 90 Project Year 2022 Located in Pushmataha County OK The purpose of this species mitigation bank is to help offset potential negative impacts on habitat for Indiana Bats (Endangered) and Northern Long-Eared Bats (Threatened) fro...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, August 2024

Hatch's Hill | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Total Acres 65.9 Project Year 2024 Located in Wayne County NC The Hatch’s Hill Conservation Easement is located on active farms used for cropland and pasture for goats, donkeys, and alpaca. The 56.2‐acre conservation easement includes multi...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, July 2024

Smiley | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Total Acres 15.6 Project Year 2024 Located in Knox County TN The Smiley Conservation Easement is a remarkable project and a great example of pairing ecological conservation with agricultural working lands. This easement protects 4,458 feet ...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, February 2024

French Quarter Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Total Acres 440.3 Project Year N/A Located in the Edisto River Basin of Berkeley SC The French Quarter Creek mitigation project provides restoration and enhancement of approximately 94.39 acres of bottomland hardwood, the enhancement of app...

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, February 2024

Knob Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Total Acres 16 Project Year 2017 Located in the French Broad River Basin of Yancey County NC

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‎ ‎ |‎ ‎ Michael Scisco, February 2024

Twiman | Conservation Mitigation Easement

Total Acres 30.5 Project Year 2019 Located in the Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin of Yadkin County NC The Twiman Conservation Mitigation Easement is located in a rural area near Boonville, NC between cattle pastures and agricultural fields. The ...

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