Stream and Wetland Mitigation
The Westervelt Company, WES’s parent company, had owned and managed this 1,060-acre site in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, for pine harvesting. Areas managed for pine production become ecologically impaired, especially during timber harvest and for many years following harvest.
This project will ultimately protect a stretch of approximately 4.0 miles on both sides of Big Sandy Creek and South Sandy Creek, a major tributary to the Black Warrior River and one of the most scenic rivers in Alabama. WES is restoring, enhancing, and permanently protecting this land adjacent to the Talladega National Forest. Re-establishing the fullest ecological potential of this segment of the Big Sandy Creek ecosystem will increase the likelihood of long-term survival and/or species richness for a diversity of aquatic biota and wetland wildlife.