Mitigation

Mitigation: Its Purpose. Its Value. Its Role.
Associating actions of habitat restoration and enhancement with mitigation provides a funding mechanism to support field-based approaches in learning. In addition, at a time when school budgets are being cut... realizing multiple values for the grounds of school campuses, such as mitigation, provides a subsidy for the maintenance of the school grounds freeing funds to be appropriated for higher priority expenses.

The Federal Clean Water Act and State of Oregon Removal-Fill Law requires that most in-water activities that affect the resource through the deposition or extraction of material to obtain a permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers (USA CE) and Oregon Division of State Lands (DSL). Resource agents representing the DSL and USACE review proposed impacts to jurisdictional resources associated with land use projects that require permit to authorize project activity.

Agents confirm the resour cevalue as presented by the project applicant. They determine if proposed impacts can be a voided; for those impacts determined per missile – the agents ensure tha timpacts ha e been minimized to the greatest extent possible and deter mine the amount of compensatory mitigation required to be provided by the applicant as a condition of permit. The applicant implements the permitted mitigation strategy to compensate in-kind for wetlands lost during development.Providing mitigation on-site allows for development of a curriculum associated with wise land-use practice, policy, and regulation that is embedded in the fabric of the campus itself.