Description: Wetland compensatory mitigation is a system overseen by the Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows for authorized permittees to purchase wetland compensatory mitigation credits from another entity in an effort to offset the unavoidable adverse impacts of the permitted activity.
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Description: Wetland compensatory mitigation is a system overseen by the Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows for authorized permittees to purchase wetland compensatory mitigation credits from another entity in an effort to offset the unavoidable adverse impacts of the permitted activity. Private mitigation banking is one form of compensatory wetland mitigation. Mitigation banks are sites or a suite of sites where wetlands are restored, established, enhanced, and/or preserved for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation for impacts authorized by Corps or WDNR permits. In general, a mitigation bank sells compensatory mitigation credits to permittees whose obligation to provide compensatory mitigation is then transferred to the mitigation bank sponsor. The operation and use of a mitigation bank are governed by a mitigation bank instrument. This layer provides a map of currently operating wetland mitigation bank sites.
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Description: Wetland compensatory mitigation is a system overseen by the Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows for authorized permittees to purchase wetland compensatory mitigation credits from another entity in an effort to offset the unavoidable adverse impacts of the permitted activity. Private mitigation banking is one form of compensatory wetland mitigation. Mitigation banks are sites or a suite of sites where wetlands are restored, established, enhanced, and/or preserved for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation for impacts authorized by Corps or WDNR permits. In general, a mitigation bank sells compensatory mitigation credits to permittees whose obligation to provide compensatory mitigation is then transferred to the mitigation bank sponsor. The operation and use of a mitigation bank are governed by a mitigation bank instrument. This layer provides a map of currently operating wetland mitigation bank sites.
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Description: Wetland compensatory mitigation is a system overseen by the Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows for authorized permittees to purchase wetland compensatory mitigation credits from another entity in an effort to offset the unavoidable adverse impacts of the permitted activity. In-Lieu Fee mitigation banking is one form of compensatory wetland mitigation. In Wisconsin, the DNR-run In-Lieu Fee program is titled the Wisconsin Wetland Conservation Trust (WWCT). Wetland compensatory mitigation is a system overseen by the Wisconsin DNR and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows for authorized permittees to purchase wetland compensatory mitigation credits from another entity in an effort to offset the unavoidable adverse impacts of the permitted activity. Private mitigation banking is one form of compensatory wetland mitigation. Credit fees are used to restore, establish, enhance, or preserve wetlands within the same watershed as the impact. The WWCT operates in 12 Service Areas, or major watersheds, across Wisconsin. Fees from several scattered wetland impacts are used for wetland restoration projects to provide for lost ecological values and functions.
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Description: Ephemeral ponds have standing water present only a portion of the year, drying up later in the summer. The drying phase excludes fish and their absence as a predator and competitor makes these ponds ideal breeding habitat for a variety of amphibians, macroinvertebrates, and other wildlife during spring and early summer. During the wet phase eggs are laid, hatch, and the young must complete development to emerge as air-breathing adults before the pond dries up. Citizen monitoring started in 2008 in southeastern Wisconsin, with training sessions carried out by a Citizen Monitoring Network of more than 12 Partner organizations working with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and UW-Extension. In the first two years of monitoring adult volunteers in Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Washington, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties have monitored 159 sites. They paid monthly visits to areas mapped as "potential ephemeral ponds" or PEPs, using a simple one-page field sheet to document water presence, size, depth and other physical characteristics. WDNR uses citizen data to help confirm whether a mapped PEP is an ephemeral pond.
The Wisconsin Ephemeral Ponds Project (WEPP) was initiated in 2006 when the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) began mapping ephemeral ponds through air photo interpretation and collecting physical and biological data on ephemeral ponds in southeastern Wisconsin. The project has two main goals: to improve techniques to map small ephemeral ponds that are often missed on wetland inventory maps, and to characterize their physical and hydrological variety, and their ecological significance.
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Description: This layer consists of known wetland restoration efforts undertaken by state, federal, local, and some private entities. This historic data set includes wetland restorations completed mostly between the mid-1980’s through the mid-2010’s with the majority of the restorations constructed between 2008 and 2012. To be included in this dataset, the restoration effort had to include some vegetative and hydrologic restoration work and include a plan for follow-up restoration monitoring or maintenance.
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Description: Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) Surveys are a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classification Level 3 intensive site assessment methodology. The survey results included in this layer were collected using the Wisconsin DNR Timed-Meander Sampling Protocol for Wetland FQA and were completed using the Wisconsin Floristic Quality Assessment Calculator. This method allows for an intensive, expert-based, assessment of the floristic quality, or biological condition, of a given wetland plant community. It is based on the assignment of a coefficient of conservatism to the vascular plant species found in Wisconsin. The method requires a high degree of plant identification skill to correctly inventory the site.
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