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| 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...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Neville Farms | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 6.15 Project Year 2021 Located in the Cape Fear River Basin of Orange County NC The Neville Farms Conservation Mitigation Easement is located in a rural and residential area of Chapel Hill, NC. The easement property consists of ...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Cape Fear Dairyland | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 28.56 Project Year 2018 Located in the Cape Fear River Basin of Orange County NC The Cape Fear Dairyland Conservation Mitigation Easement is located in a rural region of Orange County, NC known for dairy and other agricultural o...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Banished Bull | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 8.72 Project Year 2021 Located in the Neuse River Basin of Orange County NC The Banished Bull Conservation Mitigation Easement was formerly cattle pasture with stream features that were impacted by cattle grazing and pollutant i...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Straight Creek | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 145 Project Year 2022 Located in the Straight Creek River Basin of Morgan County KY The Straight Creek site is relatively large and includes many objectives for restoration and conservation including: Restore degraded perennial,...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Cloud & Banner | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 59.76 Project Year 2019 Located in the Cape Fear River Basin of Alamance NC The Cloud and Banner Conservation Mitigation Easement is a unique and beautiful property tucked away in between mature forest corridors from residential...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Heguy Ranch Species Conservation Bank
Total Acres 25.64 Project Year 2020 Located in Elko Nevada The purpose of the Heguy Ranch Species Conservation Bank is to compensate for unavoidable impacts to habitat associated with the Greater Sage-Grouse while still allowing for livesto...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Clermont Species Conservation Bank
Total Acres 963 Project Year 2021 Located in Clermont Ohio The purpose of the Clermont County Species Conservation Bank is to compensate for unavoidable impacts to the federally endangered Indiana bat and the federally threatened northern l...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Point Farm | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 1,313.11 Project Year 2021 Located in the Edisto River Basin of Charleston South Carolina The Point Farm Mitigation Bank protects approximately 1,166 acres of jurisdictional aquatic resources (tidal salt marsh wetlands). The Ban...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Lucky Landing | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 30 Project Year 2021 Located in the Stones River Basin of Cannon County TN The Lucky Landing Conservation Mitigation Easement includes restoration and enhancement of six streams, most of which are first order tributaries. Stream...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Camp Cove | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 11 Project Year 2022 Located in the Lower Cumberland-Old Hickory Lake River Basin of Sumner TN The Lucky Landing Conservation Mitigation Easement includes restoration and enhancement of UT Camp Creek, a degraded first order trib...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Gum Gully | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 15.72 Project Year 2022 Located in the Buffalo-San Jacinto River Basin of Harris Texas The Gum Gully conservation easement is part of a permittee responsible mitigation site just northeast of Houston in Harris County, Texas. The...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Carolina Bison | Conservation Mitigation Easement
Total Acres 10.59 Project Year 2018 Located in the French Broad River Basin of Buncombe County NC The Carolina Bison Conservation Mitigation Easement is located just northwest of Asheville, NC and is known locally as a property that raises ...