What does mitigation have to do with pest management?
• Mitigation simply means to “make less severe”. Mitigation as it relates to NRCS Pest Management is defined as: “The process of minimizing the potential for harmful impacts of pest management activities on soil, water, air, plant, and animal resources through the application of conservation practices and/or management techniques.” When we “mitigate” hazardous off-site movement of pesticides or sediment, we are decreasing the potential for those losses to cause damage to at-risk resources.
