At no cost to you, Davey Mitigation evaluates your land for mitigation. Our scientists examine the property in careful detail to confirm it's a good candidate for restoration.
Working With Landowners
We partner with landowners to protect the valuable natural resources on their land. Together, we can unlock multiple potential revenue streams, helping owners recognize their property's equity while preserving critical habitat.
State and federal agencies often require a wide array of permits for construction projects, including when a project affects natural resources. One way to meet the permit criteria for water resources required by the agencies is mitigation.
Private property is often the best-suited land for mitigation projects. Davey Mitigation has extensive experience partnering with landowners to help protect the valuable resources on their land while enabling connections to multiple revenue streams, allowing landowners to maintain ownership and private access while becoming part of a project’s environmental stewardship.
What Does Environmental Restoration Mean For My Land?
Davey Mitigation compensates a landowner with a per-acre payment, which allows them to conduct the work and place a permanent conservation easement over the restored land. In addition to the per-acre compensation, Davey Mitigation will install and improve farm infrastructure, such as new fencing, cattle watering stations, improved farm roads, and new crossings over streams, while completing the mitigation work.
To accomplish the restoration and meet standards for environmental improvement could include a variety of construction techniques such as filling ditches and canals to restore drained wetlands, grading of floodplain areas for wetland restoration, channel relocation/re-contouring and/or stabilization of stream banks, and reseed and replant the area with native herbaceous plants and hardwood trees and natural grasses. We perform the work while ensuring your property remains profitable and productive.
Where Does The Compensation Come From?
When a land development project, such as a housing subdivision, highway widening, or other development project disturbs natural resources, state and federal agencies require mitigation to compensate for the loss of that resource as part of the permitting process. When a project meets the necessary permitting criteria, Davey Mitigation sells the credits from mitigation projects completed through conservation easements.
The Six-Step Mitigation Process
Site Walk
Contract Review
If the land has marketable potential, we provide a standard restoration and protection contract for you to review with family and other property owners.
Closing
Once a buyer is secured, we perform a detailed title search. If the property's legal status is clear, we close on the contract and assume responsibility for the easement.
Design & Engineering
Our scientists and contractors plan and design the restoration to meet the property's unique conditions, engineering it to be sustainable and compatible with future land use.
Construction & Planting
Upon receiving all necessary permits, we construct the restoration and plant appropriate native vegetation — often more than 600 trees per acre.
Monitoring & Maintenance
Davey Mitigation monitors and maintains the restoration long-term. You have no direct responsibility, beyond following the terms of the conservation easement.
Case Studies
Dam Removal
Dam Removal & Stream Restoration In Hanover County, VA
Davey Mitigation removed a century-old dam that blocked particular fish species and endangered species from entering their native habitats.
Streams & Wetlands
Stream Restoration In Guilford County, NC
Davey Mitigation restored more than 5,700 linear feet of stream, restored over 2.5 acres of wetlands, and planted more than 12,000 native trees at the Dutch Farms Mitigation Bank in Guilford County, NC, to help stabilize the stream banks on-site and improve water quality.
Streams & Wetlands
Stream & Wetland Restoration In Alamance County, NC
Davey Mitigation restored and enhanced over 6,000 linear feet of stream channel as part of the Heron Mitigation Site.