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The Mangrove Point Mitigation Bank is a 469.20-acre conservation area established to provide compensatory mitigation for wetland impacts located in the Tampa Bay Basin. The Bank consists of a mixture of degraded natural estuarine forested and emergent wetlands.  The Bank is currently degraded by extensive mosquito ditching and spoil pile fill, hydrologic alteration, and nuisance exotic vegetative invasion. 

The restoration of the Bank will consist of the restoration of forested mangrove wetlands through nuisance exotic treatment and management, spoil pile removal and planting, and mosquito ditch restoration; saltern habitats will be restored through hydrologic restoration, mosquito ditch and spoil pile removal, and nuisance exotic vegetation treatment and management; oligohaline marsh will be restored through hydrologic restoration, supplemental plantings, and nuisance exotic treatment and management.

Mangrove Point Mitigation Bank will have estuarine forested and estuarine emergent credits available approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). The Mitigation Bank will also have estuarine forested (mangrove) and estuarine herbaceous credits available approved by the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD).