Deer River Mitigation Bank
Location
Itasca County, MN
Resource
Wetland
Solution
Mitigation Bank
Status
Sold Out
DEER RIVER MITIGATION BANK is the site of EIP’s successful restoration of more than 470 acres of formerly converted sedge meadow and emergent marsh wetlands in the floodplain of the Mississippi River and its headwaters. Along with Palisades Mitigation Bank, the Deer River Mitigation Bank has helped to restore a mosaic of wetland habitats that contributes multiple benefits to the region’s water quality, wildlife habitat and open space resources.
The Deer River Mitigation Bank has successfully met all performance standards and all of its credits have been released and sold. EIP’s Palisades Mitigation Bank services the Mississippi River watershed in the Minnesota (BSA 5) and has credits available.
CREDITS
Type 3 Shallow Marsh
SERVICE AREA
Bank Service Area (BSA) 5, including major Minnesota watersheds:
– Mississippi River – Headwaters (7)
– Leech Lake River (8)
– Mississippi River – Grand Rapids (9)
– Mississippi River – Brainerd (10)
– Pine River (11)
– Crow Wing River (12)
– Redeye River (13)
– Long Prairie River (14)
Our Partners
Short Elliott Hendrickson is a nimble local consultant with deep expertise in northern Minnesota’s ecology, hydrology, and regulatory landscape. The SEH team came equipped with a variety of talents to help EIP model, plan, and execute a 24,000-acre bog restoration. In particular, their hydrologic modeling capabilities helped us pioneer a new restoration approach, and enabled us to demonstrate that plugging tens of miles of drainage ditches would restore native peat bog hydrology.
Aquic Stream and Wetland Mitigation Strategies has been working with EIP since 2021 to identify, pursue, and deliver mitigation solutions in the Upper Midwest. Aquic‘s extensive knowledge of the state and federal regulatory programs in the region and in-depth understanding of the mitigation markets is a compliment to EIP’s proven approach for delivering verified and cost-effective mitigation solutions. Aquic provides operational support for EIP mitigation banks in Minnesota and Wisconsin and assists permittees with credit transactions in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.