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Restored Habitat Overcomes Fire and Drought at Wildlands' Rancho Jamul Mitigation Bank

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2000: Habitat construction included recontouring creek banks to reconnect entrenched wetland channels to the functioning floodplain.

2003: Following two years of drought, the San Diego Wildfire burned part of restored areas

2004: Restored floodplain hydrology worked properly in rainstorms

2004-2005: Healthy vegetation thrives along the restored floodplain corridor.


Despite wildfire and long-term drought, wetland vegetation is thriving on the banks of once-denuded creeks at Rancho Jamul Mitigation Bank in San Diego County, California.

Wildlands completed restoration for the first phases of the bank in 2001, just in time for a major drought throughout Southern California. In November 2003, the San Diego Wildfire swept through the site.

Once normal rainfall resumed, willows and bulrushes came in strong. "The floodplains and groundwater dynamics functioned as designed, and now the vegetation is going crazy," says Mark Tucker, Wildlands' Southwest Regional Manager.

Wildlands is using adaptive management to assure that the habitat flourishes on those areas hardest hit by the drought and fire.

For more information about Rancho Jamul Mitigation Bank, or to inquire about wetland, riparian, streambed, or non-wetland waters mitigation credits, please call Mark Tucker at (619) 497-2506 or Carol Landes at (888) 683-8810.

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