Committee Chair

Tucker, John

Committee Member

Spratt, Henry; Litchford, R.G.

Department

Dept. of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

This comment proposes that wetland mitigation banking under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act be employed by land trusts and conservation groups to generate revenue for funding land acquisitions and on-going stewardship for both wetland and wetland-related upland habitats threatened or impacted by development. Conservation groups and land trusts can use mitigation banking to generate revenue to fund their conservation goals. General background on the Clean Water Act - Section 404 and regulations affecting wetlands, compensatory mitigation and mitigation banking is provided. Included are general problems with monitoring and enforcement of mitigation, pros and cons of preservation as compensatory mitigation, arguments for including upland buffers, and a recommendation for helping fund monitoring and enforcement activities.

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, I want to thank my wife, Holly, for encouraging me to pursue this degree and her tremendous love and support during the process. Thanks also to my parents for their love and support. I am indebted as well to John Tucker for providing me with valuable insight to the workings of environmental law and policy, and much of his time reviewing , discussing, and proofreading this work. Thanks are also due to Gary Litchford and Rardy Spratt, for supporting me in my chosen focus of study and their willingness to serve on my graduate advisory committee. Additional thanks are due to my mother for her excellent proof reading, Lee Pierce and Virginia Coleman for their consistent help and support attenuating onerous departmental and programmatic formalities, Pat Cahill for fun discussions about ethics, and Linda Collins for her kindness. On an all together different level, thanks be to God.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

5-2000

Subject

Wetland mitigation banking; Wetland conservation--Law and legislation; Land trusts--United States

Discipline

Natural Resources and Conservation

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

v, 40 leaves

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.2 .S577 2000

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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