Pineywoods Mitigation Bank (PMB) is the largest mitigation bank in Texas and one of the largest in the nation. PMB is approximately 19,079 acres situated along the Neches River in Angelina, Jasper, and Polk Counties.
� Emergent/Shrub
� Forested
PMB will primarily service the watershed within the Neches River Basin and surrounding watersheds including the counties of Angelina, Tyler, Nacogdoches, Hardin, Cherokee, Rusk, Trinity, Jasper, Houston, Polk, San Jacinto, Smith, Shelby, Panola, Sabine and portions of Wood, Upshur, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Anderson, Walker, Liberty and Orange Counties.
Bank: Pineywoods Mitigation Bank
Location: Angelina, Jasper and Polk Counties, Texas
Functional Assessment
Wetlands identified within the PMB have been assessed using the HGM functional assessment and the amount of FCUs contained within the bank has been established based on the current state of the wetland ecosystem it harbors. For projects proposing to utilize the PMB for wetland mitigation where the impact site has been assessed using the HGM, the amount of FCUs lost shall be multiplied by a 1:1 ratio (Primary service area) or a 1.5:1 ratio (Secondary service area) to determine the amount of mitigation credits necessary for the project.
For projects whose impact site has not been evaluated using the HGM method, an FCU value for each function, per acre, will be assumed. For impacts to high-quality wetlands, an FCU value of 1.0 will be used to assess impacts. For medium- and low-quality wetlands, values of 0.7 and 0.5, respectively, will be used to assess impacts. The total amount of assumed FCUs lost shall be multiplied by the appropriate ratio to determine the amount of mitigation necessary for the project.
Pineywoods Mitigation Bank
The largest mitigation bank in Texas and one of the largest in the nation, the PMB is approximately 19,079 acres situated along the Neches River in Angelina, Jasper, and Polk Counties. The property provides a wildlife corridor that connects the Davy Crocket and Angelina National Forests, within the Pineywoods Vegetational Area. This vegetational area forms the eastern edge of the state along the northern geographic extent of the Big Thicket. The PMB includes more than 13,000 acres of bottomland wetland forest, supplemented by scrub/shrub wetlands, emergent wetlands, and areas of open water. Under an ongoing management plan, vegetative communities found within the PMB will be restored to pre-settlement conditions. This restoration of a bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem will occur through the removal of exotic and undesirable species, followed by the reintroduction of desirable native tree species throughout the property.
� Provide enhancement, restoration, protection, and maintenance of a 19,079-acre bottomland forested wetland ecosystem, by developing a native, self-sustaining bottomland hardwood forest indigenous to the Neches River Basin.
� Provide for the replacement of the chemical, physical, and biological functions of wetlands and other aquatic resources that are lost or degraded as a result of USACE-authorized impacts.
� Provide USACE permit applicants greater flexibility in compensating for unavoidable adverse impacts to the aquatic ecosystem after appropriate and practicable measures have been taken to avoid and minimize project-related impacts on-site.
� Provide more extensive, higher quality, and more cost-effective enhancement and protection of wetlands and other aquatic resources than typically achieved by other forms of compensatory mitigation.
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