Benefits

Environmental | Development | Regulatory

Restoration and enhancement plans for the Wetlands Solutions bank sites yield extensive, large-scale environmental rehabilitation as opposed to the conventional mitigation that offers less significant short-term environmental benefits because it is generally performed on a small scale by developers who would prefer not to become wetlands experts. When faced with wetlands mitigation requirements, the purchase of credits from a Wetlands Solutions bank. . .

• ensures that compensatory mitigation for permitted impacts will be successful and maintained in perpetuity by mitigation and conservation experts whose priority is environmental restoration.
• offers a broader ecological value than conventional "postage stamp" mitigation and affords functional wetlands replacement and sustainable environmental benefits in advance of proposed development impacts.
• helps assure that future generations will inherit the beauty and the benefits of our native coastal ecology.