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Texas’ Largest Wetlands Mitigation Bank Names Resource Environmental Solutions LLC Exclusive Sales Agent
Tyler, Texas — Pineywoods Mitigation Bank announced today the selection of Resource Environmental Solutions LLC (RES) as the exclusive sales agent for sales of mitigation credits on behalf of the mitigation bank. The Pineywoods Mitigation Bank was approved to sell mitigation credits during the fourth quarter of 2008. view more

The Conservation Fund Launches Texas’s Largest Wetlands Mitigation Bank
Lufkin, Texas — The Conservation Fund today announced that Texas’s largest wetlands mitigation bank is open for business. The Pineywoods Mitigation Bank encompasses more than 19,000 acres along the Neches River, traveling through Angelina, Jasper and Polk counties. view more

Pineywoods Mitigation Bank - County: Angelina, Polk, and Jasper
Through a collaboration with the Conservation Fund and a private investment group, TLC now protects over 19,000 acres of land in East Texas as the largest mitigation bank in Texas and one of the largest in the country. A mitigation bank is a wetland, stream, or other aquatic area that has been restored, and preserved for the purpose of providing compensation for unavoidable impacts to other aquatic resources. view more

Highway Mitigation — Neches River Site
The Texas Bottomland Hardwood Preservation Program Report in May 1984 was a key planning document that identified the last large contiguous pieces of bottomland hardwood forest in Texas that should be prime candidates for conservation. view more

Pineywoods: One Big (and Potentially Lucrative) Filtering Forest
The Conservation Fund has spearheaded an effort to preserve a swath of rare and endangered river-swamp forest by cashing in on the ecosystem's natural ability to filter water. This massive mitigation bank shows that bigness has its environmental benefits, but can it turn a profit? view more

The Conservation Fund Launches Texas’s Largest Wetlands Mitigation Bank
Lufkin, Texas—The Conservation Fund today announced that Texas’s largest wetlands mitigation bank is open for business. The Pineywoods Mitigation Bank encompasses more than 19,000 acres along the Neches River, traveling through Angelina, Jasper and Polk counties. view more

PBS&J Markets Credits for Texas’s Largest Wetlands Mitigation Bank
Tyler, Texas—PBS&J is marketing credits and conducting oversight for the Pineywoods Mitigation Bank, recently launched by The Conservation Fund, a national non-profit. Private, industrial, and government developers whose projects impact wetlands in the Neches River basin and select surrounding watersheds can purchase credits necessary for these projects, as determined by a standardized assessment based on calculated functional loss at the impact site. view more