Mitigation Banking 

Frequently Asked Questions

Mitigation banking unites sound environmental and economic practices to restore and enhance wetlands, streams, and other habitat resources. 

Anyone, including developers, transportation agencies and single-family homeowners, who have applied to the appropriate regulatory agency responsible for wetland/stream or species permitting and provided adequate justification of a need to impact the natural resource in question. 

• Mitigation Banks improve the time and cost of permit processing for both the regulator and project owner 
• Mitigation Banks shift the responsibility and risk for successful restoration from the project owner to the mitigation banker. 
• The mitigation bank assures appropriate financial and scientific resources are utilized to ensure the mitigation is successful. The perpetual maintenance of the bank’s environmental assets creates a higher level of success. 
• Restoration in advance of development ensures a known economic, temporal, and environmental outcome for all project stakeholders. 

No, we offer our mitigation banking services throughout the U.S.