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title: Conservation & Mitigation Banking Credits for Environmental Permitting
description: Mitigation and conservation banking allow use of existing conserved and restored habitats to offset unavoidable development impacts to expedite permitting.
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# Mitigation & Conservation Banking Credits

## Customized Initiatives Address Challenges of Developers, Landowners

Our mitigation banking and conservation banking services provide an opportunity to use existing conserved and restored habitats to offset your unavoidable development impacts. These credits help expedite permitting processes, protect the environment and ultimately save significant time and money.

**What we do helps you take advantage of a growing trend.**

- Mitigation banking provides for the preservation, enhancement, restoration or creation of waters of the U.S.
- Conservation banking provides for the protection of threatened and endangered species and their habitat.

Our unique position gives us the ability to help you navigate project environmental permitting and allows you to stay focused on your core business. These solutions, whether pre-approved credits or developed specifically for your project, provide a streamlined mitigation solution for unavoidable development impacts.

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