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Coverage of the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference - May 11

May 9, 2012 Comment

Conference coverage courtesy of Becca Madsen of Madsen Environmental. ...continuing coverage on the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking conference in Sacramento, California from May 8-11. Friday, May 11 Breakfast Plenary - Legislative and Regulatory Update Regulations are the true driver...

Coverage of the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference - May 10

May 9, 2012 Comment

Conference coverage courtesy of Becca Madsen of Madsen Environmental. ...continuing coverage on the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference in Sacramento, California from May 8-11. Thursday, May 10 Emerging Markets Session This session takes us on a mini-tour of developments...

Coverage of the National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference - May 9

May 9, 2012 Comment

Conference coverage courtesy of Becca Madsen of Madsen Environmental. Mitigation and Ecosystem Bankers from across the US are gathering in Sacramento, California for the country's biggest gathering of folks involved or interested in wetland mitigation banking, conservation banking, and issues...

Stream Exposé

June 24, 2011 Comment

Earlier this Spring, the Raleigh News & Observer ran a 3-day series called "Washed Away" highly critical of the state's NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program (or NC EEP) in-lieu fee projects for stream restoration and nitrogen reduction.

A Round-Up of Business and Biodiversity News

June 21, 2011 Comment

Athletic apparel manufacturer Puma has become the first company to release an environmental profit and loss account. Their accounting tallied the direct ecological impact of its operations at £6.2m, and an additional £74 million environmental cost along the length of...

BEF's Water Restoration Certificates On Stage at TEDxRainier

December 20, 2010 1 Comment

Water Restoration Certificates are helping keep water in critically dewatered streams in the west.

On Tap at the 2010 ACES Conference

December 7, 2010 Comment

The 2010 ACES meeting focuses on landscapes, measurement, drivers of change and institutions.

Blog Coverage of the CBD COP10 in Nagoya, Japan

November 8, 2010 Comment

Ecosystem Marketplace covered the CBD COP10 (Convention on Biological Diversity 10th Conference of Parties) in a series of articles, including: "Special Report: Understanding the Nagoya Biodiversity Talks" "Financing in Spotlight as Biodiversity Talks Open in Nagoya" "Ecosystem Values Converge in...

Service Area Boundaries - How Does the US ACE Determine these in Different Districts?

September 10, 2010 Comment

Service areas determine the area in which mitigation can occur to offset an impact. The determination of service area affects ecology and economics: too large an area, and you could get ecological 'hotspots,' but too small an area, and you'll...

Corps Responds to Letter on Data Accessibility; RIBITS Update

September 9, 2010 Comment

Let me put it simply - multiple interests in the US are pretty frustrated with the lack of accessibility to data on wetland mitigation held by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Earlier this year twenty leaders in the wetlands...