Conservation Marketplace of Minnesota
Conservation Marketplace of Minnesota (CMM) was created in 2008 to establish new economic opportunities to advance conservation efforts.
Corporations, municipalities, conservation groups, or other entities can make payments to landowners to implement ecosystem service projects. For example, a corporation may pay a landowner to plant trees to reduce their carbon footprint. An interest group pays for habitat protection and enhancements. A municipality may protect its drinking water source by paying landowners to implement best management practices in critical wellhead protection zones.
CMM is a collaboration of conservation professionals providing technical and administrative services for these emerging environmental markets. CMM currently connects buyers and sellers of ecosystem service credits in three watersheds: the Greater Blue Earth River, the Middle/Lower Minnesota River, and the Sauk River.
