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FIELD TRIP
#1 (limited to 50 persons)
Loblolly Mitigation Bank
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 — 1 to
5 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 — 8
a.m. to Noon — Lunch provided
hosted by Florida Mitigation
Providers, LLC
www.flmitigation.com
Loblolly Mitigation bank (LMB)
is owned as a joint venture between Florida Mitigation
Providers, LLC and the City of Jacksonville.
It is operated and managed by Florida Mitigation Providers
located in Jacksonville, Florida. The 6,247 acre bank
is located in Duval County approximately 30 miles West
of Jacksonville, Florida. The bank received its state
Mitigation Bank Permit from the St. Johns River Water
Management District and their federal Mitigation Bank
Instrument from the Jacksonville District Corps of Engineers
in 2003. The bank’s service area includes the
majority of Duval county, all of Clay county and a portion
of Baker and St. Johns counties. Both herbaceous and
hardwood freshwater credits are available for purchase.
LMB provides restoration,
enhancement, and preservation of wetlands and uplands
that significantly affect the headwaters of named systems
including Yellow Water Creek, Moores Branch,
and ultimately Black Creek. Specific objectives included:
re-establishing surface water flows and wetland hydroperiods;
elimination of pine plantations; regeneration of converted
and previously harvested wetlands and uplands to a natural
condition; planting and other steps to improve habitat
quality; eliminating hunting pressure caused by the
issuance of hunting leases; control of nuisance plants
and animals; headwater and stream restoration of channelized
systems; drainage-stucture abandonment; and introduction
of prescribed burns within a preserved landscape. The
improvements will be felt beyond the boundaries of the
property, as tributaries of Black Creek and the St.
Johns River are brought back to a more natural condition.
In addition to the self-contained
ecological value of LMB, the bank through its joint
venture with the City of Jacksonville, is a valuable
component of a natural corridor system that
is being established around Jacksonville by the City
as a part of the Greenbelt initiative. Without the establishment
of LMB, virtually all of the land would be used in perpetuity
for either forestry or converted to other development
purposes as the property directly to the south has been.
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