Mitigation Solutions



Introduction
The clean energy economy of tomorrow is being built today. Vital infrastructure under construction or planned across America will require unique mitigation solutions.

At The Conservation Fund, we understand that balancing infrastructure development with sound environmental practices is essential for America’s prosperity.
That’s why we provide mitigation solutions that open the way for tomorrow’s economy while protecting high-priority wildlife habitat, clean water and recreation areas. We act as a partner, working with project developers, agencies and conservationists to create plans that mitigate unavoidable impacts on our natural, historical and cultural resources. Our comprehensive mitigation solutions support our partners’ approved conservation strategies to offset project-related impacts, including turnkey transaction services and management of permittee-responsible mitigation funds for conservation outcomes.
Mitigation for Energy & Infrastructure Projects
- Electric Transmission
- Wind
- Solar
- Transportation
- Hydropower
- Oil & Natural Gas
We work at the site level, as well as at landscape scale, offering comprehensive, credible and highly efficient services to develop compensatory and voluntary mitigation packages. With keen understanding of business needs, deep legal expertise, extensive knowledge of conservation opportunities and unmatched agency credibility, we deliver timely solutions to our partners. Ultimately, conservation guides everything we do.
We can implement mitigation via a single real estate transaction or manage and disburse funds for multiple acquisitions, habitat restorations or critical research needs. Our teamwork has achieved numerous conservation benefits across the United States, including the protection and restoration of habitats for a variety of species, including gray bats and grizzly bears, bald eagles and Atlantic salmon, and butterflies and rattlesnakes.
The Conservation Fund’s mitigation team provides expertise and proven solutions across the full spectrum of mitigation services once a project has been granted legal and regulatory approval, including planning, implementation and fund administration, acquisition and restoration.
More Projects

Project
Voluntary Stewardship To Offset Communit...
We invested $2.5 million here in stream restoration, nutrient reduction and recreational trail projects.

Project
Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Pooled Fu...
The Conservation Fund combined smaller payments to generate bigger — and better — conservation outcomes.
Upcoming Courses
National Compensatory Mitigation Training Course
July 14-18, 2025
The 2025 course offering is a comprehensive course about compensatory mitigation program and includes content from former courses: Conservation Banking Training Course and Training Course for Mitigation Banking & In-Lieu Fee (ILF) Program Interagency Review Teams (IRTs).
Webinars
Learn more about compensatory mitigation. Watch our webinar on marine compensatory mitigation and our eight-part series exploring conservation banking for endangered species and habitat recovery, as well as programs that mitigate impacts to wetlands and streams.
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