Mitigation bank promotes research on restoring Coastal Plain depression wetlands (South Carolina). Metadata

Title

• Main Title Mitigation bank promotes research on restoring Coastal Plain depression wetlands (South Carolina).

Creator

• Author: Barton, Christopher D.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: DeSteven, Diane
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Kilgo, John C.
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Environmental Management.
  Contributor Type: Organization
  Contributor Info: USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)

Publisher

• Name: Savannah River Forest Station
  Place of Publication: New Ellenton, South Carolina
  Additional Info: USDA Forest Service, Savannah River, New Ellenton, SC

Date

• Creation: 2004-12-31

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: Barton, Christopher, D., Diane DeSteven and John C. Kilgo. 2004. Mitigation bank promotes research on restoring Coastal Plain depression wetlands (South Carolina). Ecol. Rest. 22(4):291-292. Abstract: Carolina bays and smaller depression wetlands support diverse plant communities and provide critical habitat for semi-aquatic fauna throughout the Coastal Plain region of the southeastern United States. Historically, many depression wetlands were altered or destroyed by surface ditching, drainage, and agricultural or silviculture uses. These important habitats are now at further risk of alteration and loss following a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2001 restricting federal regulation of isolated wetlands. Thus, there is increased attention towards protecting intact sites and developing methods to restore others. The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 312-mi2 (800-km2) Savannah River Site (SRS) in west-central South Carolina includes about 350 Carolina bays and bay-like wetland depressions, of which about two-thirds were degraded or destroyed prior to federal acquisition of the land. Although some of the altered wetlands have recovered naturally, others still have active active drainage ditches and contain successional forests typical of drained sites. In 1997, DOE established a wetland mitigation bank to compensate for unavoidable wetland impacts on the SRS. This effort provided an opportunity fir a systematic research program to investigate wetland restoration techniques and ecological responses. Consequently, research and management staffs from the USDA Forest Service, Westinghouse Savannah River Corporation, the Savannah River Technology Center, the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) and several universities developed a collaborative project to restore degraded depression wetlands on the SRS. The mitigation project seeks cost-effective methods to restore the hydrology and vegetation typical of natural depression wetlands, and so enhance habitats for wetland-dependent wildlife. We present a brief summary of this project and the research studies now underway.
• Physical Description: 2 pp

Subject

• Keyword: Research Programs
• Keyword: Plants
• Keyword: Forests
• Keyword: Wetlands
• Keyword: Mitigation Bank
• Keyword: Hydrology
• Keyword: Habitat
• Keyword: Wetland Restoration
• Keyword: Ecology
• Keyword: Management
• Keyword: Depression Wetlands
• Keyword: Mitigation
• Keyword: Agriculture Mitigation Bank
• Keyword: Coastal Plain
• Keyword: Regulations
• STI Subject Categories: 60 Applied Life Sciences
• Keyword: Communities
• Keyword: Silviculture
• Keyword: Firs

Source

• Journal Name: Ecological Restoration; Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 4

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Article

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Report No.: na
• Grant Number: AI09-00SR22188
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 840702
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc780544