Description: Snohomish County Public Works is required by law to mitigate for impacts to critical areas generated by its capital improvement projects. This dataset represents the various mitigation sites located throughout the county. Each individual site contains mitigation for at least one project but may also be further divided to provide mitigation for additional projects.In order to ensure that the sites provide the needed impact offsets, qualitative or quantitative monitoring is required for a specified length of time. Beyond that, the sites are then held in stearwdship so that they continue to provide the benefits they have been designed to produce.