Located south of Kansas City, Missouri, the Osage Plains Wetland and Stream Mitigation Bank contains approximately 44 acres of floodplain forests and agricultural land that has been restored to wetland and riparian habitats. In addition to excavating large areas, significant microtopography has been created in order to establish a wide variety of hydrologic microhabitats which have been planted with more than 130 species of woody and herbaceous plants. As a result, Terra Technologies has established a diverse ecosystem of different herbaceous, scrub-shrub, and forested wetland plant communities.
The creation of these wetland and stream habitats will be used as compensatory mitigation for impacts to waters of the U.S. When approved, the Osage Plains Wetland & Stream Mitigation Bank will ultimately contain more than 30 wetland credits and more than 19 stream credits.
This bank is expected to be approved in 2007. The proposed service area will include virtually all of Cass, Henry, and Bates counties as well as parts of Jackson, Johnson, Benton, St. Clair, Cedar, Barton, and Vernon counties.
Credits will be available at published rates for 0.1 through 5.0 acre purchases. Discounted rates apply for larger purchases. Contact Mr. David Flick at 816-810-8377 for more information. |
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