Barnes Prairie Mitigation Bank
Location
Kenosha County, WI
Resource
Wetland
Solution
Mitigation Bank
Credit Status
Approved
Max Himel
Credit Sales Representative
The BARNES PRAIRIE MITIGATION BANK (“BPMB”), located on nearly 400 acres in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, was approved in 2022 and provides offsets for wetland impacts in the greater Milwaukee area. The BPMB falls under the Federal jurisdiction of the St. Paul District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and services the Southwestern Lake Michigan Bank Service Area (“BSA”). The BSA encompasses 8-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 04040002 watershed (Pike-Root Rivers), the HUC-8 04040002 watershed (Milwaukee), and 10-digit HUC 0404000204 (Pike River Frontal Lake Michigan Watershed). The BSA falls within 9 counties: Fond du Lac, Kenosha, Ozaukee, Racine, Dodge, Waukesha, Washington, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee.
Three different wetland habitat credit types are available at the BPMB and include Wet to Wet Mesic Prairie, Sedge Meadow and Shallow Marsh.
CREDITS
Wetland
– Sedge Meadow
– Shallow Marsh
– Wet to Wet-Mesic Prairie
SERVICE AREA
Southwestern Lake Michigan watershed and outside on a case-by-case basis.
Our Partners
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.