Field
Trips
Devils Swamp Mitigation Bank
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Tuesday, May 7, 12:30–4:30 p.m.
Buses depart Sheraton New Orleans entrance at 12:30 p.m.
HOSTED BY
Wetlands Solutions
www.wetlandssolutions.com
The Devil's Swamp Mitigation Bank, located in Hancock County, Mississippi in close proximity to the Stennis Space Center, encompasses a total of 5,705 acres and is the single largest wetlands mitigation bank permitted in the USACE'S Mobile District. The sheer size of the restoration effort, while potentially daunting, has afforded Wetlands Solutions' land management team an invaluable opportunity to test numerous different restoration techniques and management approaches and then evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques with regard to their ability to either accelerate or enhance the predictability and achievement of success criteria resulting in the release of credits. These various land management strategies will be discussed in-depth throughout the tour. At the conclusion of our tour, participants will enjoy catered barbeque from The Shed (featured in 2006 on Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives) as well as local craft beers from south Mississippi's own Lazy Magnolia micro-brewery.
Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve and Mitigation Bank,
Mossy Hill Mitigation Bank and Dolly-T Mitigation Bank
Bayou Terrebonne Coastal Mitigation Bank and The Nursery at Point Aux Chenes
Devils Swamp Mitigation Bank
Lower Devils Swamp Tract
Red Creek Consolidated Mitigation Bank
EARLY Registration: $50 (before
January 25, 2013)
PRE-CONFERENCE Registration: $55 (before
March 15, 2013)
LATE Registration: $80 (after
March 15, 2013; if space available)
REGISTER
NOW!
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