ponderosa ranch mitigation bank restore & revitalize www.deltaland-services.com
Proposed Service Area
Bienville
Caldwell
HUC 08070300(Primary)
Natchitoches
Madison
Richland
Jackson
Franklin
USGS Hydrologic Units
Winn
HUC 08090302 (Secondary)
Madison
Tensas
Primary Service Area
Secondary Service Area
Catahoula
La Salle Grant Natchitoches
Concordia
Ponderosa Ranch Mitigation Bank
Project Size Total bank acreage: 324 acres of bottomland hardwoods and baldcypress swamp restoration within a 2,131-acre site Total permitee-responsible mitigation (PRM) acreage: 245 acres with additional reserved acreage available
Rapides Vernon
Avoyelles
West Feliciana
Evangeline
I-49
Washington
I-55 Tangipahoa
St. Landry East Baton Rouge West Baton Rouge
Acadia
Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
St. Helena
Pointe Coupee
Allen
Jefferson Davis
Location
East Feliciana
I-10
St. Martin
Iberville
Lafayette
I-12St. Tammany
Livingston
Ascension St. John the Baptist
Calcasieu St. James
St. Charles
Assumption Cameron
Orleans
I-610 Jefferson
St. Bernard
St. Martin
Vermilion
New Orleans Corps District
St. Mary
Lafourche
Iberia Plaquemines Terrebonne
Restoration Work Plan Delta Land Services will restore the wetlands with the following: • Remove livestock • Planting of approximately 164,000 seedlings • Long-term protection with a perpetual conservation servitude • Establishment of maintenance and protection funds in perpetuity
Project Objectives The project area serves as compensatory mitigation for unavoidable impacts to wetlands associated with USACE permits within the New Orleans District’s Lower Grand and West Central Louisiana Coastal watersheds. The restoration of bottomland hardwood and baldcypress swamp forest will provide additional wetland functions and values, which are not currently utilized. This includes: •
The restoration of historic surface hydrology
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The re-establishment of the native bottomland hardwood and baldcypress swamp communities through hydrology, restoration and afforestation of native species
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To expand and improve contiguous wetland forested habitat
delta land services, llc | 1090 cinclare drive port allen, la 70767 | phone - 225.388.5151 (codi moore) | fax - 225.343.3200