Ecological Benefits
- Establishes mitigation in advance of unavoidable project impacts to avoid temporal loss of aquatic function
- Provides an opportunity to achieve large, "landscape-scale" restoration through providing an economic incentive to SHMB sponsor
- Avoids problems associated with project-specific mitigation sites that often fail
- Allows for larger restoration sites that accommodate increased habitat diversity and substantially higher ecological lift
- Provides protection and management of the site in perpetuity through a Conservation Easement
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