La Paz County Endangered Species Fund 290: A Different Conservation Bank

A conservation bank is defined as “a parcel of land containing natural resource values that are conserved and managed in perpetuity for specified listed species and used to offset impacts occurring elsewhere to the same resource values on non-bank lands.” Conservation banks protect the habitat of threatened and endangered species because they provide a specific natural resource value. But there are other methods to provide this “specific natural resource value” without the parcel of land.