The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently issued revisions to its mitigation policy – the first such updates since 1981. The policy is in response to the Presidential Memorandum (November 3, 2015) that directed federal agencies to preference advance compensation mechanisms (like mitigation and conservation banks) which are most likely to achieve environmental performance prior to any adverse impacts . The policy is issued following the Secretary of the Interior’s Order 3330 entitled ‘‘Improving Mitigation Policies and Practices of the Department of the Interior’’ (October 31, 2013), as well as the latest Departmental Manual Chapter (600 DM 6) Implementing Mitigation at the Landscape-scale (October 23, 2015). >Request Trout Headwaters Technical Memo