Number: 97-849
Title: Wetland Mitigation Banking: Status and Prospects
Authors: Jeffrey A. Zinn, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division 
Abstract: Wetland protection is controversial because the federal government regulates activities on private lands and because the natural values at some of these regulated sites are being debated. This controversy pits property owners and development interests against environmentalists and others who seek to protect the remaining wetlands. Mitigation banking, which allows a person to degrade a wetland at one site if a wetland at another site is improved, has been identified as a potential answer to this shrill and seemingly intractable debate.
Pages: 21
Date: September 12, 1997