Final Report on Mitigation of Forested Freshwater Wetland

摘要

In 1986 the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) obtained a dredge andfill permit (No. 481033389) from the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation (FDER) to add several lanes adjacent to the existing roadway. The conditions of the dredge and fill permit required FDOT to create 0.85 ha of forested wetland and 0.48 ha of herbaceous marsh to compensate for the loss of 0.61 ha of forested wetlands and 0.65 ha of roadside ditches which were filled as the result of road widening. The monitoring efforts were focused on tracking the wetland values of the created wetlands over a period of four years (1988-1991) following construction. Several measures of wetland values were examined by systematic sampling to include aspects of the sites' hydrology, vegetation, and associated wildlife.