Company:The Lacassane Company
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Lessors of Real Property, NEC, Lessors of Other Real Estate Property, land management, farming, energy, hunting, ecology |
| Founded | 1929 |
| Headquarters | Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. |
Key people | William D Blake, President |
| Products | ecotype grass |
| Revenue | $820,000 (estimate) |
Number of employees | 10 |
| Subsidiaries | Louisiana Native Seed Company, The Lacassane Club |
The Lacassane Company is a land management company, with a goal of sustainable land management using an environmental management scheme that involves a host of tools including holistic management. Located primarily in Jefferson Davis and Cameron parish, with property in Ragley, Louisiana, the company headquarters is in Lake Charles, Louisiana.[citation needed]
History
Founded in 1929, by eight Lake Charles area businessmen, with land purchased from Jim Gardiner. The company was formed with 2250 common shares of stock with share-holders including, W. P. Weber, H. G. Chalkley, C. O. Noble, Henry Pomeroy, George M. King and Frank Roberts, M. J. Muller, and purchased 21,000 acres that included farm machinery, implements, stock, and cattle bought for $380,000.00, that included what was the Lowery and Illinois plantations, that became known as "The Illinois Plant", and "The Lowery Plant".[citation needed]
The Lacassane company continued with the previous form of tenant farming, increasing the original cattle herd, establishing trapping, hunting, oil and gas leases, and then the wetlands mitigation project. The Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937, when the company sold 13,000 acres (5,300 ha) south of the Illinois Plant to the United States Government for $51,774.00.
Operations
The Illinois Plant is called the Lacassane Coastal Prairie Mitigation Bank and the Ragley property, in conjunction with the "Calcasieu Mitigation Bank" and partnered with Ecosystem Investment Partners (EIP),[1] is known as the Bill Jackson Longleaf Savannah Mitigation Bank. Both have been designated (through The Lacassane Company) by the Corps of Engineers as a mitigation bank providing ecosystem services to the public in the form of Environmental mitigation (compensatory mitigation) to ensure the no net loss wetlands policy[2] is followed to prevent Biodiversity loss that keeps the greenhouse debt in check. The Lacassane Company partnered with The Coastal Plain Conservancy to hold conservation servitudes on the land. The banks are monitored and maintained by Wildlands, Inc., an environmental consulting and plant propagation company.
The company operations now include land leases for waterfowl (Waterfowl Limited Liability Company)[3] and other hunting,[4] cattle grazing, alligator hide and egg harvesting, oil and gas exploration, and wetland projects. A pumping system through canals, laterals, the Bell City ditch, the Lacassine Bayou and the Mermentau River provides irrigation for the farming operations.[5] The company's SIC code (Lessors of Real Property, NEC) is 6519 and the NAICS CODE (Lessors of Other Real Estate Property) is 531190.[6]
Seed Propagation Project
In 2006, The Lacassane Company became the parent company of Louisiana Native Seed Company, that provides ecospecies such as Little Bluestem, Brownseed Paspalum, Florida Paspalum, Switchgrass, Partridge Pea, and Eastern Gamagrass and has consultants with experience in Agricultural science and botany. The Louisiana Native Seed Company is listed as a provider for the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.[7]
The Lacassane Club
The Lacassane Club was founded in 2013, as a subsidiary of The Lacassane Company, on 14,000 of the 21,000 acres owned by the company. The company offers personal and corporate hunting memberships that include access to the lodge, separate sleeping quarters called casitas and a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house called Jed's Cabin. The staff includes the club manager, a head guide, 4 other guides, an executive chef, and a Zoology/Wildlife Management biologist.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ "Calcasieu Bank". Mitigation Banking. Ecosystem Investment Partners. 2010. http://www.calcasieubank.com/. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
- ↑ "mitigation regulation". EPA. http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guidance/wetlands/wetlandsmitigation_index.cfm. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Opencorporates". Louisiana Secretary Of State, Commercial Division. 10 May 2013. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_la/34875076K. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ John Maxwell Hamilton (November–December 2009). "The Thrills of the Hunt". Cigar Aficionado. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/The-Thrills-of-the-Hunt_9282/p/2. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
- ↑ "Company info". Manta.com. http://www.manta.com/c/mmjr9dj/the-lacassane-company-inc. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Company profile". http://the-lacassane-company-inc.lake-charles.la.amfibi.com/us/c/19127214-the-lacassane-company-inc. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Conservation seed vendors for Louisiana". United States Department of Agriculture. May 2012. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_PLANTMATERIALS/publications/lapmctn11237.pdf. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
External links
- United States EPA Compensatory Mitigation website
- National Mitigation Banking Association
- Endangered Species and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Recovery Crediting Guidance
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