Mitigation Projects
Sodalis Nature Preserve
Mark Twain put Hannibal, Missouri, on the map. The tranquil landscapes of his boyhood town on the Mississippi River...
Hatchery Planning and Partial Water Reuse System Design
White River NFH participates in the stock mitigation and reestablishment of Atlantic salmon in the Connecticut River watershed.
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Strategic Mitigation for Wind Energy In the Midwest
As concerns mount over the high costs and long-term environmental impacts of fossil fuels, wind has become an increasingly...
Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest
The establishment of Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest in 2010 is a great example of the Fund’s ongoing effort to conserve...
Strategic Mitigation for Pipelines: NiSource Gas
NiSource Inc. (NiSource), a Fortune 500 natural gas transmission and storage company, operates a 15,500 linear mile network of...
Palmetto-Peartree Preserve
The Conservation Fund established the 10,000-acre Palmetto-Peartree Preserve in 1999 with funding from the North Carolina Department of Transportation....
Managing Mitigation Funds to Conserve Bird Habitat
As America’s demand for energy grows, providers are making major new investments in infrastructure. The emerging Rockies Express Pipeline...
Range-wide Indiana Bat In-Lieu Fee Program
The "Range-wide Indiana Bat In-Lieu Fee Program" provides a practical mitigation option for unavoidable adverse impacts to Indiana bats...
In Wyoming, Using Mitigation To Benefit Family Ranches
Across Wyoming’s Green River Basin, grazing pronghorn and vibrating drill rigs cast shadows on the horizon. These unlikely neighbors...
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Kern River, Utah
Desert tortoises were once one of the West’s most abundant reptiles, but their populations have declined 90 percent since...
Flathead River
The Fund facilitated the purchase of more than 240 acres along the main stem of the Flathead River, just...
Conservation Banking on the Rise in Texas
Conservation banking is experiencing unprecedented interest and demand across the country. A mitigation technique first popularized in California and...
Copperhead Hollow State Wildlife Area Project
Warblers, wood thrushes and whip-poor-wills migrating through Illinois gained more room to stretch their wings, thanks to the efforts...
Cottonwood Ranches
In west central Wyoming, the 75,000-acre Cottonwood Ranches owned by cattle rancher Freddie Botur have sustained his family’s way...
Former Carney Ranch (CRC Ranch)
Carney Ranch forms the most important piece of the Path of the Pronghorn’s “Funnel Bottleneck” for pronghorn antelope migrating...
A Bright Future for the Desert Tortoise
If you’ve never seen a desert tortoise, you’re not alone. This extremely elusive creature spends 95 percent of its...
