BlueLine Conservation Incentives is a private conservation finance firm which leverages market-based programs to fund land conservation and ecosystem services. At BlueLine, we believe that the market is one of the most powerful tools available to conservation efforts. Our focus on ecosystem services, wetland mitigation, stream restoration, conservation easements, PDRs, TDRs, tax credits, and water quality trading are examples of such market mechanisms. For over 17 years BlueLine has organized “market maker” platforms for nutrient, mitigation and tax credit trading, while through its affiliate, Norman Realty, developed unique brokerage expertise selling land with special conservation, environmental, or natural resource value.

Contact Name: Jay Norman
Address: 10688-C Crestwood Drive, Manassas, VA 20109
Email: jnorman@bluelineconservation.net
Phone number: 703.334.0172
Website URL: www.bluelineconservation.net

Broad Water Innovations (BWI) has become a trusted easement holder and long term steward (LTS) to the ecological restoration industry. BWI holds mitigation bank easements and steward projects throughout an expansive geographic range with the goal of becoming a national provider to the mitigation industry. We currently tout national, regional and local bankers as partners and are engaged in discussions to provide easement and LTS services with 15 – 25 developing projects across the eastern United States.

Contact Name: Tee Clarkson / President
Address: 4525 East Seminary Ave., Richmond VA 23227
Email: tee@broadwaterinnovations.org
Phone number: 804.687.1869
Website URL: broadwaterinnovations.org

Ecosystem Services was founded in 2011 to assist with the growing need to develop and implement ecological restoration projects to restore stream systems to meet regulatory requirements for MS4 permits, Chesapeake Bay and local TMDLs, and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act.

Our Founders built a team and company vision around this mission to reduce impacts to waterways, implement on-the-ground restoration and quantify uplift credits. Ecosystem Services multidisciplinary team of engineers and environmental scientists provide the expertise to carry any mitigation/environmental banking project from the feasibility and assessment phase through the permitting, design, mitigation marketing, monitoring, and adaptive management phases until the project is transferred to a long-term steward at the completion of monitoring responsibilities.

Contact Name: Jon Roller
Address: 1739 Allied St., Suite Am, Charlottesville, VA 22903
Email: jon@ecosystemservices.us
Phone number: 540.578.4296
Website URL: ecosystemservices.us/

Resource Environmental Solutions LLC (RES) is a national operating company focused on restoring a resilient earth for a modern world, project by project.

As the nation’s largest ecological restoration company, RES supports the public and private sector with solutions for environmental mitigation, stormwater and water quality, and climate and flooding resilience. RES has a unique operating model for delivering ecological uplift, based on science-led design, full delivery, long-term stewardship and guaranteed performance. RES designs, builds, and sustains sites that preserve the environmental balance, lifting impaired ecosystems into restored health and ultimately, self-sufficiency.

Contact Name: Rick Atkinson
Address: 1408 Roseneath Road, Suite B, Richmond, VA 23230
Email: ratkinson@res.us
Phone number: 804.729.8989
Website URL: res.us

Restoration Systems is the most experienced mitigation banker in the United States. We were there at the birth of mitigation banking in Congress in the early ’90s and have maintained influence in every national policy decision and business practice improvement in the ecological restoration industry since that time.

Our work has expanded beyond streams and wetlands to become a national leader in development of water quality credit banks, installation of Living Shorelines to protect our coasts, removal of obsolete dams and fish blockages and preservation and restoration of habitat for threatened and endangered species.

Contact Name: John Preyer/Jeff Corbin
Address: 1101 Haynes Street, Suite 211, Raleigh, NC 27604
Email: jcorbin@restorationsystems.com
Phone number: 919.755.9490
Website URL: restorationsystems.com

Water & Land Solutions is dedicated to restoring and protecting our natural resources while providing cost-effective and sustainable mitigation solutions that benefit and contribute to economic growth throughout the United States.

At WLS we know that impact mitigation can occur in conjunction with economic growth. This allows us to leave a permanent imprint on the improvement and protection of the environment and our communities. We believe you will find our expertise, work ethic, and project flexibility distinctive and unparalleled. Our restoration projects and efforts include over 4,700 acres of protected and conserved land, over 60 miles of restored stream, and more than 2,200 acres of restored wetlands.

Contact Name: Catherine Roland
Address: 7721 Six Forks Road, Suite 130, Raleigh, NC 27615
Email: catherine@waterlandsolutions.com
Phone number: 919.614.5111
Website URL: waterlandsolutions.com

Wetland Studies and Solutions, Inc. (WSSI), a Davey Tree Company, is one of the region’s leading environmental, natural and cultural resources consulting firms. We have grown from a one person wetland consulting firm in 1991 to more than 200 staff in the mid-Atlantic, and along the way have earned an excellent reputation in the industry – with regulators and with our clients, including state agencies and local governments. We also have created and restored over 1,000 acres of wetlands and designed more than 73 miles of stream restoration.

Contact Name: Rebecca Napier, PE
Address: 717 N. Courthouse Road, Suite 100, Richmond VA 23236
Email: rnapier@wetlands.com
Phone number: 703.679.5782
Website URL: wetlands.com