An article appeared recently in the Katoomba Group's Ecosystem Marketplace Newsletter about the Willamette Partnership's efforts.  The Ecosystem Marketplace considers themselves the premier news service focusing on emerging ecosystem service markets.

Oregon Experiments with Mixed Credits

By Erik Ness

"California and Oregon have long been friendly environmental policy rivals. California has set environmental standards in many areas, particularly air quality. Oregon wrote the first bottle bill, the first state land-use law, and the first state climate-change law. But on the species banking front, California dominates, 94 to 2. An innovative new multi-credit system being pioneered in the Willamette Valley could change the game."

"Furthest along, however, is the Ecosystem Marketplace Initiative of the Willamette Partnership. "

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