| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Toadstool | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 79.7 Project Year 2025 Located in Caswell County NC The Toadstool Mitigation Project is a 79.9-acre ecological restoration effort located in the Cape Fear River Basin. Developed by Water & Land Solutions and protected in perpetu...
| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Twin Burros | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 33.9 Project Year 2023 Located in Caswell County NC The Twin Burros Mitigation Site is a large-scale stream and wetland restoration project within the Cape Fear River Basin. Developed by Wildlands Engineering and permanently pro...
| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Double Rock | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 39.6 Project Year 2022 Located in Alexander County NC The Double Rock Mitigation Site is a stream restoration project designed to improve water quality and ecological health in the Catawba River Basin. Managed by Wildlands Engin...
| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Loop Road | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 13.8 Project Year 2023 Located in Wayne County NC The Loop Road Mitigation Bank Parcel is a 13.75-acre project designed to restore riparian buffer and nutrient offset functions in the Neuse River Basin. Developed by Wildlands En...
| Michael Scisco, April 2025
East Mingo | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 44.8 Project Year 2024 Located in Johnston County NC The East Mingo Creek Mitigation Site is a 44.75-acre stream and wetland restoration project designed to improve water quality and ecological function in the Cape Fear River Ba...
| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Four Hills | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 77.9 Project Year 2024 Located in Anson County NC Unique Places to Save serves as the long-term conservation easement holder for the Four Hills Mitigation Site, a 77.89-acre restoration project. Once degraded by livestock use an...
| Michael Scisco, April 2025
Slowplay | Conservation Easement
Total Acres 19.7 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, 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, 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
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, 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...
| Nathan Phillips, February 2024
Boiling Spring Wilderness Receives the Third Largest Grant in NC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3rd Largest Grant in 2023 Awarded By State to Fund Conservation of 978 Acres of Boiling Spring Wilderness The North Carolina Land and Water Fund Board of Trustees voted on Wednesday, September 20th to award Unique Plac...
| Michael Scisco, February 2024
Cate's Farm Farmland Conservation
Unique Places to Save partnered with the City of Mebane to assist with their master planning process that garnered community input for this remarkable rural property as part of their park concept. Unique Places to Save partnered with the Ci...
| Nathan Phillips, February 2024
Box Creek Wilderness Land Preservation
Unique Places To Save Provided Online Technology to Help Prevent a Power Line Over One of the Largest Natural Heritage Areas in North Carolina Unique Places To Save conducted an online outreach and education campaign in coordination with ou...
| Nathan Phillips, February 2024
Alligator Creek Restoration & Conservation Project
Unique Places to Save currently working to increase ecological diversity and recreation opportunities along the Brunswick and Lower Cape Fear Rivers. The Alligator Creek Restoration and Conservation Project, funded by the National Fish and ...