About Southern Conservation Corp

BEAVER CREEK SITE

The Beaver Creek project was initiated in 2008 involves the enhancement and restoration of over 11,000 linear feet of headwater stream channels on the 608-acre Beaver Creek site in Harrison County, Kentucky (pictured left). The project was developed through SCC’s partnership with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), the Federal Highway Administration (Kentucky Division), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (Pictured right - hardwood forest on Beaver Creek Site, Harrison County, Kentucky, that will be protected.)

Restoration of this site will address four primary goals:

To provide future stream mitigation credits to KYTC in the Licking River basin;
To provide additional locations where Short’s goldenrod can be introduced and managed as part of the recovery program for the species; and
To improve habitat conditions for native flora, fish, and wildlife through the elimination of poor agricultural land use practices and non-point erosion and sedimentation sources.

NICK MARLER RESTORATION SITE

This Butler County, Kentucky, project is part of SCC’s partnership with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), the Federal Highway Administration (Kentucky Division), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). It involved the restoration of approximately 30 acres of wetlands and 5,500 linear feet of stream. Construction of the restoration project was completed in June 2007; approximately 2,700 advanced bottomland hardwood tree seedlings were planted in February 2008; and success monitoring of the project began in early 2008. The project was named as the “Nick Marler Restoration Site” in honor of our first charter Board member who died unexpectedly in 2004.

Restoration of this site will address three primary goals:

To provide future stream and wetland mitigation credits to KYTC in the lower Green River region of Kentucky;
To provide an important wetland wildlife habitat for Indiana and gray bats and the copperbelly watersnake; and
To improve habitat conditions for native flora, fish, and wildlife through the elimination of poor agricultural land use practices and non-point erosion and sedimentation sources.

HANEY FORK SITE

SCC has performed 2 habitat restoration projects on this 166-acre site in Butler County, Kentucky. The central portion of the property, which include the uplands above a pre-1980 coal mine, were restored under a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This portion of the project involves over 50 acres, including the planting of 40 acres of native warm season grasses and 2,000 linear feet of stream channel restoration. (Pictured left - upland hardwood trees being planted with a mechanical tree planter following the stream restoration work on the Haney Fork Site.)

The other project on this site involved restoration and enhancement of over 4,000 linear feet of streams and the planting of over 13,000 upland hardwood trees on a portion of the site that was overgrazed by cattle. This project was performed under a grant from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Stream and Wetland Mitigation Program and was completed in February 2006.

Restoration of this site will address two primary goals:

To provide an important wildlife habitat for grassland and early successional bird species; and
To improve habitat conditions for native flora, fish, and wildlife through the elimination of poor agricultural land use practices and non-point erosion and sedimentation sources.

RILEY SITE

The Riley Site is located in Marshall County near Benton, Kentucky, and consists the restoration of approximately 6,000 linear feet of degraded and straightened streams and approximately 45 acres of wetlands. The project was developed through SCC’s partnership with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), the Federal Highway Administration (Kentucky Division), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (Pictured right - the Riley Site, Marshall County, Kentucky, prior to restoration.)

Restoration of this site will address three primary goals:

To provide future stream and wetland mitigation credits to KYTC in the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky;
To provide an important wildlife habitat buffer between the City of Benton, Kentucky, and the Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge; and
To improve habitat conditions for native flora, fish, and wildlife through the elimination of poor agricultural land use practices and non-point erosion and sedimentation sources.

WELCH'S CREEK

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