Turtle Bayou Mitigation Bank, LA
| Quick Facts |
| Location |
Rapides Parish |
| USACE District |
New Orleans |
| Site Acres |
250.7 |
| Watersheds Serviced (HUC Cataloging Units) |
08080101
08080102
08080103 |
| EPA Ecoregions Serviced |
Red River Bottomlands, South Central Plains |
| Parishes or Portions of Parishes Serviced |
Rapides, Avoyelles, Evangeline, Point Coupee, St. Landry, Lafayette, St. Martin, Iberia, Vermillion, St. Mary, and Iberville |
| Available Wetland Habitat Types |
Bottomland Hardwood, Cypress-Tupelo |
| Available Mitigation Types |
Restoration and Enhancement |
| Total Mitigation Acres |
To Be Determined |
| Current Mitigation Acres Available for Sale |
0 |
| Functional Assessment Method & Credit Value |
Under Evaluation |
| MCM (Modified Charleston Method) |
Under Evaluation |
 
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 This site lies along the banks of Bayou Beouf and is a prior-converted rice farm. The bank site is surrounded to the north and west by private WVA lands and private bottomland hardwood forested lands, and to the south by the LSU-Alexandria agricultural reserach station.
When restored, the bank site will provide valuable habitat along Bayou Boeuf that, in combination with nearby public lands, will function as part of a significant landscape corridor to facilitate movement and re-patriation of the black bear within the greater Red River basin.
The site was historically bottomland hardwood wetland with a series of backwater drainages and slashes connecting old oxbows from the Red River to the north with Bayou Beouf to the south. In the 1940's the site was converted to rice farm, leeved, laser-leveled and many of the histroic slashes and drains either filled or altered to function as reservoirs for agricultural activities.
Existing bottomland hardwood forest immediately to the north and south of the site provides an excellent reference for restoration of the site.
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