Purchasing ecological offsets, or mitigation credits, is a quick and easy way to demonstrate Clean Water Act compliance for your permit (Endangered Species Act too!). Mitigation banking is actually the preferred compensatory offset by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and a great strategy for many U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service districts across the country. Equally important, the purchase of mitigation bank credits transfers environmental liabilities from your project to one of Wildwood’s established mitigation banks, allowing you to focus on core business, while we deal with the weeds.

Where do credits come from? This can be a tricky question, but we do our best to simplify the answer. Wildwood (and others) develop mitigation credits through the restoration of degraded ecosystems on land we own, or through joint ventures with property owners. The size of these projects, amount of restoration and subsequent prescriptions vary, but at the end of the day our credits come from positive changes to our shared natural resources.