Researchers Jason P. Julian and Russell C. Weaver, writing on the nation's headwaters in Colorado noting the growth in population and land development. Importantly they highlight the demands for stream mitigation and some of the challenges to more widespread stream compensation in the state including requirements for long-term management of mitigation projects, availability of suitable water rights, and engineering vs ecological/process-based approaches to stream assessment. >Download Here
A newly released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report is shining a spotlight on a concern many in the mitigation banking industry have raised for years: inconsistent implementation of the federal compensatory mitigation program across U.S. Army Corps of Engineers districts. Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the Corps requires compensatory mitigation
Read MoreFor too long, environmental policy debates have been framed around a false and unproductive premise: that economic growth and environmental protection are inherently at odds. This mindset is not only outdated—it is actively harmful to both outcomes. Mitigation banking offers a clear path forward. By design, it aligns economic incentives with ecological restoration, proving
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