Buck Creek Mitigation Bank

Buck Creek Wetland Mitigation Bank is a 44-acre site immediately adjacent to Clift Ditch and Buck Creek in the Upper White Watershed in Henry County, Indiana. Both Clift Ditch and Buck Creek are perennial streams that lie within the Blue Ridge Heritage Corridor, which contains unique soil conditions that is supportive of threatened and endangered wildlife and plants. Buck Creek Mitigation Bank was approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in March 2013. The mitigation plan includes restoration of historic wetland communities through re-establishment of wetlands to prior converted croplands, rehabilitation of low-quality farmed wetlands and establishment of native prairie buffer.

Buck Creek Wetland MB is approved to offset emergent wetland impacts within the Upper White River Watershed (HUC 05120201), which includes portions of Delaware, Hamilton, Henry, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Morgan Randolph, and Tipton counties.