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Wetlands 101

Want to learn more about wetlands, but not sure where to start?

Here is some information, made especially for beginners.

Wetland Law & Policy

Federal, State and Local laws and policies have a major effect

on the study and treatment of wetlands, use this portal to explore the effects policy and law have on wetlands.


Wetland Plants & Hydrology

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Featured Picture

Gouldsboro State Park, in Monroe and Wayne counties in northeastern Pennsylvania, contains 2,800 acres of land, including mature northern hardwoods ,wetlands and the 250-acre Gouldsboro Lake. Gouldsboro Lake was drawndown in January 2005 to study and repair structural damages found in the spillway. The lake had recently been refilled and opened to the public on Memorial Day, 2008.


Photo credit: Nicholas T



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External Links

EPA Wetland Data Sheet

National Wetlands Inventory

List of EPA programs- good resource

EPA Watershed site

USGS Wetland Guide

USGS Wetland Research

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simple.wikipedia.org sea.unu.edu

Good links

National Wetland Condition Assessment

Envcap

USGS State Water Resources Research Institute Program

California Native Plant Society 2000 Handbooks


Wetlands in the News

Yahoo! News Search Results for wetlands

  1. Prized wetlands under threat (Daily Telegraph)
    BULLDOZERS are about to raze critically endangered bushland in western Sydney's prized wetlands in a move that conservationists fear will harm animal and plants.
  2. Legislation would help protect groundwater (Portage Daily Register)
    Legislation proposed Monday would increase protections for Wisconsin's groundwater by providing more review of proposed large wells that could potentially draw down drinking water supplies and threaten connected surface waters such as streams, wetlands and lakes.
  3. Something fishy at Throgs Neck (Queens Chronicle)
    As workers repair the span, residents and officials find paint chips on the ground. Photos by James Cervino and, inset, Jerry Martin É Queens scientist says toxic lead paint chips from the Throgs Neck Bridge rehabilitation project are raining down on the ground and wetlands in the Bayside area and need to be cleaned up immediately.
  4. New link takes bikes past wetlands near Sanctuary Lakes (Leader Community Newspapers)
    A NEW bike and walking path will open an internationally-significant wetland between Sanctuary Lakes and Altona Meadows.
  5. In Deal on Everglades, a Dream Is Deferred (The Hendersonville Times-News)
    DON VAN NATTA Jr. and DAMIEN CAVE Florida's plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.
  6. Wetlands complicate plans for new Metro station (NBC 12 Richmond)
    HERNDON, Va. (AP) - Plans for dense, walkable development around a planned Metro station could be complicated by wetlands in the area.
  7. Brooklin artist makes strokes to protect wetlands (Whitby This Week)
    BROOKLIN -- Jake Vandenbrink is used to letting his creativity run wild while capturing nature through art but he never imagined his work would reel in this kind of exposure. The 47-year-old...
  8. Fairfax plans Metro development around wetlands (The Washington DC Examiner)
    A wetlands area near the expected Herndon-Monroe Metro station is complicating plans for an urban, walkable community around the transit center.
  9. Deal to Save Everglades May Help Sugar Firm (International Herald Tribune)
    Florida’s plan to reclaim the wetlands is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.
  10. POSTCARDS FROM THE AMAZON: Cowboys in seasonal wetlands keep adapting to their surroundings (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
    SAN ANGELO, Texas —MATO GROSSO DO SUL, Brazil — For more than 300 years, pantaneiros have raised cattle in the seasonal wetlands of central Brazil. Beginning around March, rains from the north begin to creep into low-lying areas, which remain underwater up to half of the year.With the onset of the flood, cattle that grazed on the lowlands are moved to islands of higher ground, where they forage ...
   
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