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


| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Hitchcock Creek | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 57.1 Project Year 2025 Located in Galveston County TX Located in the San Bernard River watershed in coastal Texas, the Hitchcock Creek Mitigation Project managed by EPR, is a private ecological restoration effort aimed at improv...

| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Slowplay | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 22.5 Project Year 2025 Located in Alexander County NC The Slowplay Mitigation Bank is a private conservation and stream restoration project managed by Water & Land Solutions and located in the rolling foothills of Alexander Coun...

| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Three Paces | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 20.6 Project Year 2025 Located in Van Buren County NC The Three Paces Mitigation Bank is a private conservation and stream restoration project managed by Water & Land Solutions and located in the scenic hills of Van Buren County...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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, 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, 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...

| 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 ...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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...

| 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 ...
