The Disney Wilderness Preserve

摘要

The Nature Conservancy's (TNC's) Disney Wilderness Preserve project provides an example of effective mitigation carried out under the §404 Program and represents the kind of results we would hope to achieve more widely from our proposals. In 1994, when the Walt Disney Company was contemplating construction of the Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Central Florida and the development of the residential community named Celebration, it was clear that the projects would damage significant areas of wetlands in the Reedy Creek Watershed at the headwaters of the Everglades ecosystem. Regulatory agencies and the Disney Corporation determined that, while some wetlands damage could be avoided and that some wetlands could be protected on-site, to offset the damage that could not be avoided it was best to select a large mitigation site in the Reedy Creek watershed that was remote from the Disney properties.