Analysis of southern California mitigation banks with implications for The Wildlands Conservancy's Sacred Lands Network and Bluff Lake Reserve

I conducted a qualitative analysis of mitigation banks in southern California, and from interviews with nine individuals associated with the banks or with mitigation tools, reveal the overall lack of cohesive understanding of the purpose and integrity of mitigation banks. This reveals the uncertainty in banking but also presents an opportunity to make recommendations on improvements to this prominent tool. This analysis also lends support to The Wildlands Conservancy as they establish their Sacred Lands Network, an alternative to mitigation banking. This dataset contains three .csv files: Bankers Groups' Coding_Declassified, Individuals Groups' Coding_Declassified, and RCD MWD Groups' Coding Declassified. The .csv files contain two tabs: descriptive coding and major bins. The descriptive codes were developed from the in vivo codes of the original interview transcript. These are organized according to participant and question they answer. The major bins are the pattern codes that arose f...