December 14, 2009
 Terra Technologies, in conjunction with Swallow Tail LLC, announces the issuance of a Public Notice by the Little Rock District of the US Army Corps of Engineers for the proposed operation of the Crane Creek Wetland and Stream Mitigation Bank in Stone County, Missouri.
The 200-acre restoration project is being constructed by Swallow Tail in 2009 and 2010 to provide high quality wetland and stream mitigation credits for sale within the White River Ecological Drainage Unit. More than 100,000 containerized plantings of prairie grasses, wildflowers, wetland plants, trees and shrubs will be planted on the parcel in 2010. Scientists with Terra Technologies will monitor ecological enhancements at the site.
The project incorporates riparian restoration of ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial stream channels on the parcel. Existing buffers are absent due to traditional use of the site for cattle pasturing.
Crane Creek and Dry Crane Creek, tributaries to the James River, traverse the property through geomorphic floodplains. Crane Creek is home to the Missouri strain of Rainbow Trout, a strain used by the Missouri Department of Conservation at their fish hatcheries.
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