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Wiggins Prairie Mitigation Bank

492.44 Acres | Hillsborough County

Project Details

The Wiggins Prairie Mitigation Bank is a 492.44 acre conservation area established to provide compensatory mitigation for wetland impacts located in the Hillsborough River basin. The Bank consists of mixed wetland hardwoods, cypress domes and strands, freshwater marshes, wet prairies, and upland live oak hammocks. The Bank has been severely degraded by ditching and draining, filling of wetlands for sod farming and cattle grazing, borrow pit excavation, exotic species invasion, and prolonged fire suppression, resulting in significant loss and degradation of wetland habitats. The restoration of the Bank will consist of backfilling ditches, excavating fill, creation of new wetlands, exotic species eradication, supplemental planting, and reintroduction of prescribed fire to restore all of the wetland and upland habitats to their optimal condition.

The Wiggins Prairie Mitigation Bank has palustrine forested and palustrine emergent credits available approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), as well as federally threatened Wood Stork Suitable Foraging Habitat (SFH) credits. The Wiggins Prairie Mitigation Bank also freshwater forested and freshwater herbaceous credits available approved by the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD).

GreenSource’s Scope of Services

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