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FIELD
TRIP #2 (limited to 30 persons)
Longleaf Mitigation Bank
AVAILABLE -- Tuesday, May 6, 2008— 1 to
5 p.m.
SOLD OUT -- Wednesday, May 7, 2008 — 8 a.m. to Noon—
Lunch provided
hosted by Timbervest, LLC
www.longleafmitigation.com
Longleaf Mitigation Bank is
located in Nassau County, northeast Florida, approximately
20 miles northwest of Jacksonville. Longleaf
is comprised of three ecologically and hydrologically
related tracts totaling 3,021 acres—the east tract
is 2,058 acres, the south tract 645 acres, and the northwest
tract 318 acres. The Northwest tract contains waters
and wetlands of Crosby Bay and Mill Creek. The East
Site contains headwater wetland systems of Thomas Creek
and Mill Creek. The South Sit e contains waters and
wetlands associatied with Deep Creek, Brandy Branch
and Crosby Bay. Crosby Bay is a large, headwater wetlands
sytem that connects the three bank tracts. The site
is dominated by a densely planted slash pine plantation.
Wetlands on the site include hyric pine plantation,
along with cypress sloughs, hardwood sloughs and creek
bottomlands.
The Bank’s service area
consists of Nassau, Baker and Duval Counties –
SJRWMD Watershed Basins 1, 2, 3 and 4, or the
Upper St. Mary’s River Basin, the Middle and Lower
St. Mary’s River Basin, the Nassau River Basin
and the Northern St. Johns River & Northern Coastal
Basin.
Longleaf was permitted by
the Saint Johns River Water Management District in April
2004, and received authorization for the ultimate
release of 813 SJRWMD wetland mitigation credits. Likewise,
the Army Corps of Engineers permitted Longleaf in September
2004, and granted the Bank an estimated 1,031 ACOE credits.
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