Wetlands, Wildlife Habitat, and Flood Hazards in the Rock River Basin Webinar Series: Opportunities for Local Governments to Engage in Wetland Conservation
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Fifth Stakeholder Forum on Federal Wetlands Mitigation
Date Released
December 2006
Wetlands Program: Conferences, Trainings, & Seminars
ELI’s Wetland Program facilitates dialogue among professionals working wetlands law, policy, science, and management. The program seeks to improve wetlands protection by offering a forum for diverse interests in the wetlands profession to discuss, debate, and resolve timely issues. ELI also frequently holds trainings to educate conservation groups on wetland-related topics. Recent conferences and trainings include:
Wetlands, Wildlife Habitat, and Flood Hazards in the Rock River Basin: Summer Webinars
Wisconsin professionals promote collaboration to restore wetlands and floodplains and mitigate flood hazards in the Rock River Basin
The Rock River Coalition and Environmental Law Institute presented four monthly webinars that identify opportunities for emergency, floodplain, and wetland management agencies to better work together to maximize the flood control and ecosystem service benefits of our wetlands. These collaborations save financial and environmental resources and build community resilience to climate change.
National Forum on Synergies Between Water Quality Trading and Wetland Mitigation Banking
Date Released
January 2006
The National Forum on Synergies Between Water Quality Trading and Wetland Mitigation Banking report summarizes the discussions from the Forum, held July 11-12, 2005, in Washington DC. The two-day event was designed to bring together experts in wetland mitigation banking with those in the water quality trading community to facilitate a dialogue on stimulating future markets in water quality trading.
The Federal Wetland Permitting Program: Avoidance and Minimization Requirements
Date Released
March 2008
Significant attention has been paid over the past 20 years to improving the third step in the mitigation sequencing requirement of the Clean Water Act § 404 regulatory program—-compensatory mitigation—-to ensure that the compensation being provided is ecologically effective, self-sustaining, protected in perpetuity, has “assurances of long-term sustainability and stewardship,” and ultimately meets the program’s goal of no net loss. This report focuses on the first two steps in the sequencing process which, to date, have received far less attention: avoidance and minimization.