Compensatory mitigation plays an important role in wildlife management and conservation, offsetting the loss of wetland and aquatic resource functions in a watershed affected by development activities. This resolution conveys the Governors’ policy on compensatory mitigation and federal deference to state regulatory policies. It highlights the Governors’ support for the federal government adhering to state mitigation policies and recognizing and incorporating the mitigation hierarchy into federal planning processes, and using adaptive management practices to avoid rigid mitigation requirements and formal regulations. Read, download the resolution.
