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01 May 2025

• Paragliders invade Orlando Wetlands! Birds spooked! Birders aghast!
  After nesting birds — including threatened wood storks — hurried away from the kerfuffle, the park manager filed complaints with Federal Aviation Administration and state wildlife officials.
• Residents voice concerns over Amazon's plan to fill wetlands for New Carlisle data center
  Reaction swift to a controversial development proposal near New Carlisle. At the heart of it: a request by Amazon to permanently impact nearly 10 acres of wetl...
• Vital to wildlife, water quality and flood defense, wetlands are losing ground. Literally.
  The states that border the Mississippi River have lost at least half of the wetlands they once had, including Wisconsin.
• New Carlisle residents voice concerns about Amazon’s plans to fill wetlands
  While IDEM officials heard a lot of well-researched testimony, it is unclear what — if anything — they plan to do with that information.
• Farm wetlands doing their job
  An example of how nature and agriculture can coexist to benefit crop production, water quality and habitat preservation was among the stops during the recent From Farm to Filtration: A Tour of...