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Previous Webinars and Trainings

 

Conservation (Species) Banking

As a component of the annually-offered Conservation Banking Training course, we developed a series of twelve case studies.

Resources for the 8-part webinar series being offered from October 2020 – January 2021 can be found here. This series is designed to provide an introduction to foundational topics related to conservation banking for endangered species and habitat recovery, as well as joint authority programs that mitigate for impacts to wetlands and streams.

 

Third Party Wetland and Stream Mitigation Banking

Complementary to the annually-offered 3rd Party Mitigation Interagency Review Team (IRT) Training course, presentations and resources associated with the course are available.

As the United States prioritizes efforts to rehabilitate, enhance and modernize its energy and transportation infrastructure, state and federal regulators play a critical role in making permitting decisions that align with their own priorities to protect important natural resources. Compensatory mitigation may be required because of unavoidable impacts to natural resources and these negotiations can become contentious because it involves additional cost to the permit applicant and could potentially extend project schedules. Ideally, agencies can provide predictable mitigation solutions that are efficient and provide successful outcomes for natural resources; however, sometimes unique projects require unique solutions.

The Conservation Fund provides comprehensive mitigation solutions that support our partners’ approved conservation strategies to offset project-related impacts to natural resources, including turnkey transaction services and management of permittee-responsible mitigation funds for conservation outcomes.

We are an independent non-profit that does not have a membership that can create conflicts of interest for our work on infrastructure mitigation projects. We can implement mitigation via a single real estate transaction or manage and disburse funds for multiple acquisitions, habitat restorations, or critical research needs.

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Our teamwork has achieved numerous conservation benefits across the United States, including the protection and restoration of habitats for a variety of species:     

• Mammals: Indiana, northern long-eared, little brown, tricolor, and gray bat species, ocelot, jaguarundi, grizzly bear
• Birds: general migratory birds and specific mitigation for bald and golden eagles, golden-cheeked warbler, red-cockaded woodpecker, red knot, whooping crane, piping plover
• Fish: Atlantic salmon, candy darter
• Invertebrates: American burying beetle, rusty patched bumblebee, Mitchell’s satyr butterfly, Michigan Karner blue butterfly, freshwater mussels
• Reptiles: Eastern massasauga rattlesnake, timber rattlesnake, desert tortoise, gopher tortoise, indigo snake, Louisiana pine snake
• Amphibians: Illinois chorus frog
  
  

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WE HAVE ALSO PROVIDED MITIGATION FOR UNIQUE REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS: 

• Land exchanges for replacement of impacted public lands 
• Conservation of land for impacts to viewshed 
• Compensatory mitigation for impacts to cultural and historic sites 
• Creating outdoor recreation spaces for local communities 

Why The Conservation Fund for Mitigation Solutions?

• We deliver cost-effective and timely solutions focusing on the land and water conservation priorities of federal, state and local partners
• We are an Accredited Land Trust, and our work is conducted in accordance with Land Trust Alliance Standards and Practices
• We are top-ranked 4-star rated by the independent Charity Navigator which recognizes our financial health, accountability and transparency
• We have deep expertise in real estate transactions and financing, with experts working throughout the United States
• Our long-standing relationships with the conservation community and agencies responsible for habitat and species
  management mean we are best positioned to deploy compensatory mitigation projects where they will have the most added value
  to broad conservation objectives

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Our team can provide expertise and proven solutions to the full spectrum of mitigation services once a project has been granted legal and regulatory approval:

Planning

• Conduct full mitigation program management using science-based decision tools and mapping
• Establish and reinforce relationships with mitigation project partners
• Provide strategic project guidance, on-the-ground knowledge, and effective collaboration on mitigation requirements and implementation

Implementation & Fund Administration

• Implement mitigation packages for regulatory compliance or voluntary stewardship
• Create mitigation accounts and manage disbursement of funds based on regulatory and conservation agency priorities

Acquisition

• Manage property and landowner identification and relations, including due diligence, negotiation, and acquisition
• Ensure that all aspects of property acquisition and protection meet mitigation criteria
• Provide interim property management, as well as identification and facilitation of transfer of properties to long-term stewards
• Evaluate project readiness and the capacity and sustainability of conservation partners to manage and permanently protect land

Restoration

• Design project-specific restoration programs to enable properties to meet ecological performance standards
• Identify and engage restoration contractors to implement restoration programs

By the Numbers:

With a nationwide team of real estate and conservation specialists, The Conservation Fund has provided critical mitigation solutions for energy and infrastructure projects, including electric transmission, oil and natural gas, wind, solar, hydropower and transportation.   We have completed more than 350 projects in more than 30 states representing more than 355,000 acres conserved and over $277 million in successfully completed mitigation solutions.

Infrastructure improvements are underway throughout America, and we recognize that balancing economic development with sound environmental practices is essential for America's prosperity. Our mitigation solutions achieve important conservation results by protecting high-priority wildlife habitat, clean water, and recreation areas.

CONTACT THE MITIGATION SOLUTIONS TEAM

We act as a partner, working with project developers, agency partners and conservationists to create plans that mitigate for unavoidable impacts on our natural, historical and cultural resources. We work at the site level, as well as at landscape scale, offering comprehensive, credible and highly efficient services to develop compensatory and voluntary mitigation packages. With keen understanding of business needs, deep legal expertise, extensive knowledge of conservation opportunities, and unmatched agency credibility, we deliver timely solutions to our partners. Ultimately, conservation guides everything we do.

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Our Mitigation Solutions team brings together more than 100 years of pertinent expertise, having served as leaders in government agencies, as national and local conservation practitioners, and as specialized practitioners in land and financial transactions.

We have earned the trust and confidence of federal, state and local agencies nationwide.

We are solutions-oriented.  We don’t shy away from challenging opportunities. Instead, we work in partnership to secure superior conservation outcomes.