You're planning a development project and just learned that it'll impact wetlands or streams. Now what? Regulatory requirements mean you'll need to offset those impacts — but understanding your options is the first step toward moving forward efficiently.
Traditionally, developers faced two choices: buy mitigation bank credits if one exists in your watershed, or design and build a Permittee-Responsible Mitigation site yourself. Different approaches. Different skill sets. Different timelines. Often, this meant assembling multiple teams to manage what should have been a single regulatory solution.
Ecological offsets and turnkey solutions collapse that gap. Instead of juggling credit sourcing, site design, construction, and long-term stewardship across different partners, a single provider handles it all — credit inventory, design and construction capacity, and ongoing monitoring — under one roof.
Pennsylvania's water quality challenges illustrate why this matters. With over 2,400 miles of impaired streams documented between 2020 and 2022, the pressure on developers to implement effective offsets is real. Nature-based solutions that restore ecosystems, not just check a compliance box, are becoming the expectation.
RES brings this together by combining mitigation banking capacity with site design and construction expertise, so you move from a complicated multi-party problem to a single conversation about what works for your project.
Download this presentation featuring specific project examples from RES Expert Jon Kasitz to understand when PRMs are the right fit and how integrated offset solutions have worked in practice.
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