Recent Evaluations of Compensatory Mitigation

1. National
1. 2006, The Status and Character of In-Lieu Fee Mitigation in the United States, Environmental Law Institute.(link to it)
2. 2006, 2005 Status Report on Compensatory Mitigation, Environmental Law Institute, (link to PDF)
3. 2005, Corps of Engineers Does Not Have an Effective Oversight Approach to Ensure that Compensatory Mitigation is Occurring, Government Accountability Office (link to PDF)
4. 2004, Biodiversity Offsets: Views, experience, and the business case, IUCN (link to Executive Summary | Full Report)
5. 2002, Banks and Fees: The Status of Off-Site Wetland Mitigation in the United States, Environmental Law Institute. (link to it)
6. 2001, Compensating for Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act, National Academy of Sciences (link to it)
7. 2001, Wetlands Protection: Assessments Needed to Determine Effectiveness of In-Lieu-Fee Mitigation, General Accounting Office (link to PDF)
8. 2000, Wetland Mitigation in the United States: Assessing the Success of Mitigation Policies, Richard F. Ambrose, Wetlands (Australia), 19: 1-27 (link to PDF)
2. Regional
1. 2007, Report on Effectiveness of Mitigation Banking in Florida, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. (link to it)
2. 2006, An Evaluation of Compensatory Mitigation Projects Permitted Under Clean Water Act Section 401 by the California State Water Quality Control Board, 1991-2002, by Richard F. Ambrose, John C. Callaway, and Steven F. Lee. (Direct link to report | Direct link to appendices)
3. 2006, An Ecological Assessment of Ohio Mitigation Banks: Vegetation, Amphibians, Hydrology, and Soils, Ohio EPA Technical Report WET/2006-1 (link to it)
4. 2005, Wetlands in Washington State Volume 1: A Synthesis of the Science. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication #05-06-006. (link to intro | document)
5. 2005, Wetlands in Washington State Volume 2: Guidance for Protecting and Managing Wetlands. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication #05-06-008. (link to intro | document)
6. 2004, An Evaluation of Compensatory Mitigation Projects Permitted Under Clean Water Act Section 401 by the Los Angeles Regional Quality Control Board, 1991-2002, University of California, Los Angeles (link to Final Report PDF | Guidance Document PDF)
7. 2004, Integrated Wetland Assessment Program, Part 5: Biogeochemical and Hydrological Investigations of Natural and Mitigation Wetlands, State of Ohio EPA Wetland Ecology Group (link to PDF)
8. 2003, Success of Corps-Required Mitigation in New England, Paul Minkin & Ruth Ladd, USACE New England District (link to PDF)
9. 2002, Section 404 Wetland Mitigation and Permit Success Criteria in Pennsylvania, USA, 1986-1999, Cole, Charles Andrew and Deborah Shafer, Environmental Management. 30(4): 508-515.
10. 2000 and 2002, Washington State Wetland Mitigation Evaluation Study, Phase 1: Compliance and Phase 2: Evaluating Success, Washington State Department of Ecology, (link to it)
3. Evaluations of Different Aspects of Mitigation
1. 2006, Development and application of functional recovery trajectories for wetland restoration by C.V. Klimas (link to PDF)
2. 2004, Natural Lands Management: 28 Case Studies, Prepared by the Center for Natural Lands Management for the EPA (link to PDF)
3. Creating Indicators of Wetland Status (Quantity and Quality): Freshwater Wetland Mitigation in New Jersey (link to it)

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