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Big Bullfrog Creek Mitigation Bank

175.09 Acres | Hillsborough County

Project Details

The Big Bullfrog Creek Mitigation Bank is a 175.09-acre conservation area established to provide compensatory mitigation for wetland impacts located in the Tampa Bay Basin. The Bank consists of mixed wetland hardwoods, wet flatwoods, and upland pine flatwoods along the banks of Big Bullfrog Creek. The Bank has been degraded by ditching and runoff from adjacent row crops, cattle grazing, clearing for pasture, selective pine tree logging, exotic species invasion, and prolonged fire suppression, resulting in significantly degraded wetland habitats. The restoration of the Bank will consist of backfilling ditches, treatment of agricultural runoff, creation of new wetlands, oak tree thinning, exotic species eradication, supplemental planting, and reintroduction of prescribed fire to restore all of the wetland and upland buffer habitats to their optimal condition.

The Big Bullfrog Creek Mitigation Bank has palustrine forested credits available approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). The Big Bullfrog Creek Mitigation Bank also has freshwater forested credits available approved by the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD).

GreenSource’s Scope of Services

• Site Identification
• Due Diligence
• Permitting
• Restoration Supervision
• Habitat Management
• Species Monitoring
• Vegetation Monitoring
• Agency Reporting
• Credit Releases
• Credit Sales and Marketing