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Our guest Wayne Walker is driving private investment in conservation and species preservation through the development of species' mitigation banks around the United States. Wayne explains why mitigation banking is needed, how the development process works with the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and how these markets have developed following the stream and wetland mitigation banks under the Clean Water Act.  We discuss how mitigation banking can cut through the partisan divide when Common Ground Capital works with private farmers and ranchers to manage their lands for conservation in order to generate an additional revenue stream from the sale of mitigation credits. Wayne also explains how voluntary markets can drive change and a more suitable valuation of ecosystems.