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Assessment of Wetland Mitigation in South Dakota
Wetland mitigation is the practice of avoiding, minimizing or compensating for wetland functions and values lost through human impacts (e.g., filling). Regulated by the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and the Environmental Protection Agency through Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, wetland …
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Wetland mitigation banking as a tool for conservation
This comment proposes that wetland mitigation banking under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act be employed by land trusts and conservation groups to generate revenue for funding land acquisitions and on-going stewardship for both wetland and wetland-related upland habitats threatened or impacted by …
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Redistribution Effects of Wetland Mitigation Over Space and Time
… uses the same Chicago dataset to analyze whether mitigation programs actually relocate wetlands through off-site mitigation from urban to rural areas and whether that relocation causes socioeconomic disparities. I demonstrate that the extent of wetland relocation and redistribution differs …
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Wetland mitigation banking in Tennessee: an assessment of three banks performance
… nation as a whole loses nearly 58,000 acres of wetlands. The national goal of both the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers is to achieve no net loss of wetlands. Wetlands law allows for mitigation of wetland impacts with the implied assumption that the mitigation will adequately compensate for …
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Groundwater and Tidal Controls on Wetland Hydrology, Julie J. Metz Wetland Mitigation Bank, Woodbridge, Virginia
<p>Julie J. Metz Wetlands Mitigation Bank, a 92-hectare freshwater wetland located in Woodbridge, Virginia, borders the tidally-influenced Neabsco Creek. Seven pods separated by earthen berms were built by Wetland Studies and Solutions Inc. (WSSI) in 1995 and 1997 by removing the toe of small sandy …
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Wetland mitigation banking in the Chicago area: an assessment of ecological outcomes and compliance with performance standards
… development projects causing negative impacts to wetlands must provide compensation for wetland losses through the wetland mitigation process. The Army Corps prefers that compensation is provided through the purchase of credits from wetland mitigation banks, which are large wetland restoration …
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Assessment of Section 404 Wetland Mitigation Compliance and No-Net-Loss in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District
… agency responsible for regulating impacts to wetlands. Permit applications requesting authorization to impact wetlands are reviewed using a three step sequence: avoidance, minimization and compensatory mitigation. A national goal of no net loss of wetland acreage and function in compensatory …
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Improving Wetland Mitigation in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina With the Watershed Planning and Mitigation Banking Aspects of the New Mitigation Rule
… on the integration of the watershed planning and mitigation banking aspects of the 'New Mitigation Rule' into the wetland mitigation framework of South Carolina. This project performed a watershed-scale wetland condition assessment, assessed wetland conditions in two Coastal Plain mitigation …
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What Happens When No One is Watching? Ecological and Institutional Considerations for the Long-Term Management of Compensatory Wetland Mitigation in the Western Washington Coastal Zone
Once compensatory wetland mitigation projects meet their permit criteria they are expected to last in perpetuity and are presumed to be self-sustaining. However, once projects are beyond their period of regulatory obligation there is rarely any follow up to determine how the projects ultimately end …
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Guidelines for a Comprehensive Mitigation Management Plan for Texas Coastal Wetlands
… develop and implement a future comprehensive mitigation management plan for Texas coastal wetlands. Current coastal wetland protection and mitigation strategies that are used in Texas, in other states, and at the federal level were identified and evaluated . A survey was conducted, during the …
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Hydrologic investigation of three constructed mitigation wetlands and one natural wetland in West Virginia
… increase the probability of success for future mitigation wetland projects by performing a hydrologic investigation at three constructed mitigation wetland sites and one natural reference wetland site. In addition, a numerical groundwater model was developed for a portion of one of the …
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Faunal Diversity and Richness of Natural, Restored, Dam-Created, and Borrow-Pit Wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of Eastern South Dakota
An increasingly large percentage of wetland loss has occurred due to highway development within the last twenty years. In an attempt to compensate for these losses, the Federal Highway Administration has adopted new wetland mitigation policies. To facilitate the implementation of these policies, …
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An Analysis of Palustrine Mitigation Wetlands in the Virginia Coastal Plain
In recent years, the success of wetland mitigation projects and their ability to function as natural systems has been questioned. This study was conducted (i) to characterize and examine differences between mitigation and natural wetlands, (ii) to examine differences in soil morphology along a …
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Tradeoffs among ecosystem services in restored wetlands
… services while enhancing the value of others. Wetlands provide many ecosystem services, such as water quality maintenance, carbon storage, flood water abatement, and biodiversity support. Current compensatory wetland mitigation policy relies on the assumption that wetlands can be restored to …
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Restoration Progress and Plant Community Development in Compensatory Mitigation Wetlands
… succession to achieve a desired ecosystem, and wetland mitigation policies assume restoration can rapidly and predictably compensate for impacted wetlands. However, restoration success might vary depending on landscape context, which constrains the pace and outcome of succession. I reviewed the …
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Restoration through reassembly: evaluating the role of native plants in combatting Chinese tallow
… (<em>Pinus taeda</em> L.) across the Green Bayou Wetland Mitigation Bank (GBWMB) in Harris County, TX. I found that baldcypress had the highest survival rates that baldcypress and water tupelo had greater tree heights than loblolly pine, and that only loblolly pine and water tupelo had significant …
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Functional Equivalency of Created and Natural Wetlands in the Central Appalachians: Reproductive Success, Call Phenology, and Diet Composition of Amphibians
Evaluating the adequacy of created wetlands to replace the functions of lost natural wetlands is important because wetland mitigation is a major tool used to offset wetland losses. However, measurements such as vegetative cover and presence of wildlife may not provide sufficient evidence that …
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Litter Decomposition in Created and Adjacent Forested Wetlands of the Coastal Plain of Virginia
… function of constructed and natural forested wetlands. This study compared rates of litter mass loss, changes in litter morphology, and associated macroinvertebrate populations in constructed and natural non-tidal wetlands. Two sets of wetlands (constructed vs. natural) were studied in eastern …
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Determining an Appropriate Organic Matter Loading Rate for a Created Coastal Plain Forested Wetland
Past research indicates that created non-tidal wetlands in the mid-Atlantic region are considerably lower in soil organic matter than native forested hydric soils. However, optimal loading rates for created wetland soil reconstruction have not been rigorously established. Our objective was to …
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