Author: EIP Communications

St. Louis County, DNR ready to make land trade involving Sax-Zim Bog by John Myers, Duluth News Tribune A land exchange is in the works that would put the nation’s single largest wetland bank in the Sax-Zim Bog of St. Louis County, one of Minnesota’s most important bird conservation areas. To read the full article, please … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) is pleased to announce its acquisition today of 9,798 acres in Logan and McDowell Counties, West Virginia. EIP will restore, reconnect and protect over 178,000 linear feet (33 miles) of the properties’ streams and riparian areas to establish the Southern West Virginia Stream Mitigation Bank. The properties EIP purchased are located … Continued

The goal of restoring the Gulf of Mexico has been lost amid bureaucratic squabbling over BP spill fines By Bob Graham and William K. Reilly The Washington Post Published: May 31 Bob Graham is a former governor and U.S. senator from Florida. William K. Reilly was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the George H.W. … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) is pleased to announce its acquisition today of 1,095 acres in Pasco County, Florida. EIP will restore the property back to a healthy mosaic of wet pine savanna, emergent marsh, and forested wetlands and develop the Old Florida Wetland Mitigation Bank on the site. The property is located approximately 25 miles north … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) is pleased to announce its acquisition of 3,583 acres in northeastern Minnesota that will be included in EIP’s existing Mississippi and Superior Wetland Mitigation Bank. Located in St. Louis County, Minnesota, the property EIP acquired is within the boundaries of the Sax – Zim Bog Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The Sax … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners, the sponsor of the Calcasieu Wetland Mitigation Bank, is pleased to announce that it has received its first release of credits from the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Bank now has nearly 300 credits available in inventory to offset unavoidable impacts to wetlands in Calcasieu, Beauregard, Allen, and Jefferson Davis Parishes … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) is pleased to announce its acquisition of 16,472 acres of coastal marsh on the East Orleans Land Bridge in Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Located less than 20 miles east of New Orleans, the Chef Menteur Pass property comprises 63% of the East Orleans Land Bridge, the landmass that separates Lake Pontchartrain from … Continued

Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP) is pleased to announce its acquisition of 3,510 acres of restorable wetlands in northeastern Minnesota that will comprise the Mississippi and Superior Wetland Mitigation Bank. The two properties EIP has acquired were formerly used as wild rice farms and now represent some of the largest, contiguous restorable wetland mitigation sites remaining in … Continued