Wildlands Reopens Territory for Giant Garter Snake Conservation Banking

Ridge Cut Bank to Serve Western Sacramento Valley

ROCKLIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wildlands announces the approval of Ridge Cut Giant Garter Snake Conservation Bank in Yolo County, California, dedicated to mitigation of habitat impacts to the threatened giant garter snake (GGS). The 185-acre bank serves portions of Tehama, Glenn, Colusa, Yolo, Sacramento, and Solano Counties west of the Sacramento River, and is the first bank to offer GGS credits in that territory since Wildlands’ Dolan and Pope Ranch banks sold out three years ago.

Bank credits are purchased by public works agencies and the development community to fulfill permit obligations of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game for impacts to GGS habitat.

Wildlands ecologists and landscape architects designed habitat features to comply with the goals outlined in the Draft Recovery Plan for the Giant Garter Snake (US Fish and Wildlife Service 1999) and created a management plan to maintain the site in perpetuity.

Including sites scheduled for construction in 2009, Wildlands will have restored over 2,000 acres of GGS habitat in the Sacramento Valley, more than all other conservation banking entities combined.

For more information about the Ridge Cut GGS Conservation Bank, please contact Julie Maddox at [phone].

Wildlands, a private mitigation banking firm based in Rocklin, California, has been in business since 1991. With projects and offices throughout the West Coast and Southeastern U.S., Wildlands has preserved and protected over 30,000 acres of habitat, offering wetland mitigation and species conservation credits to public and private developers.