Presenters Lisa Marr and Michael Sprague of Trout Headwaters Inc (THI) will be joined by Tye River Mitigation Bank owner Shannon Tillman to talk about creating a successful environmental opportunity and lasting ecological improvement for headwater streams in central Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. The challenge for this site was to build a stream mitigation bank, at a watershed scale, projecting environmental uplift and financial returns over the life of the project. Ultimately, this effort serves as a demonstration of processes for successful end-to-end ecological performance by design - scoping, planning, restoring, preserving, and protecting in perpetuity more than ten miles of vital headwater streams, and 400 acres of associated buffers on this historic private property. The firm deployed significant big data and geospatial analysis for active restoration planning, analysis, design, monitoring and reporting. and continues to leverage critical technology, including Esri platforms (ArcGIS, Explorer) and THI’s EcoBlu Analyst, to achieve impact-driven results for this 10-year project. The success and lasting value of applied ecological restoration for streams, rivers, wetlands, and other habitats relies on routine, consistent processes for development, design, implementation and monitoring. Prudent adaptive management, working with nature, and a smart feedback loop using repeatable quantitative monitoring is the ‘silver bullet’ to ensuring long-term ecological success.
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