News Release
| Release Number: | 05-164 |
| Dated: | 12/15/2005 |
| Contact: | Diana J. Fredlund, 503-808-4510 |
PORTLAND, Ore— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Oregon Department of State Lands are considering a proposal to establish a wetland mitigation bank near Philomath, Ore.
The bank sponsors proposed this mitigation bank as a means to meet the requirements for compensatory wetland mitigation for projects which may be permitted by the Corps and the Oregon Department of State Lands. The sponsors would sell wetland credits to parties to meet their obligations under the “no net loss of wetlands” policies of federal and state regulations.
The proposed bank will generate wetland credits by restoring cropped wetlands to wet prairie dominated by native plants and by planting trees and shrubs along an existing forest wetland corridor. The restored and enhanced wetlands will include semi-permanently and seasonally flooded and saturated palustrine emergent, scrub-shrub and forest wetland areas.
Written comments must be received by Jan. 12, 2006, and should be addressed to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CENWP-OP-G (Corrie Veenstra), P.O. Box 2946, Portland Oregon, 97208-2946.
A copy of the proposed mitigation bank public notice is posted on the Corps’ Internet site at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/g/docs/200500701.pdf.