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Wetland
Land that stays flooded all or part of the year with fresh or salt water. (source: EPA) Background from Wikipedia This article focuses on natural wetlands. For wetlands created for wastewater processing or other purposes, see Constructed wetland. A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. In physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems...and truly aquatic systems...making them different from each yet highly dependent on both" (Mitsch & Gosselink, 1986). In essence, wetlands are ecotones. Wetlands are typically highly productive habitats, often hosting considerable biodiversity and endemism. In many locations such as the United Kingdom and USA they are the subject of conservation efforts and Biodiversity Action Plans. AllAfrica.com,HOIMA Town Mayor Francis Atugonza has expressed disappointment at the way wetlands in the town council are being degraded. "Most wetlands in the town Wetland wonder - 22 Oct 2007 Farming UK,Work on the Lake District's first ever wetland nature reserve has got underway, opening up a wildlife haven with nationally acclaimed species on the shores Rare habitat for curlews could be lost - 22 Oct 2007 Aylesbury Today Bucks Herald,Gallows Bridge Farm is an area of low-lying meadows, laced with streams and ditches, and lies at the heart of one of the most important wetland regions in Clean Water Act is under attack - 22 Oct 2007 Post-Bulletin,According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, a one-acre wetland can store 1 million gallons of water, providing an important and economically NRCS Encourages Landowners to sign up for Conservation Program - 22 Oct 2007 Southwest Nebraska News,...“In the last 10 years of this program, last year was the first where NRCS didn’t have enough applications and turned wetland restoration money back to our Breaking News in Your Inbox - 22 Oct 2007 Journal Review,By Sam King Wrestling weeds up to his shoulders in a northern Montgomery County wetland, JD Phillips is grief stricken when he discovers a flock of swallows Architects shortlisted for Brockholes visitor centre - 22 Oct 2007 Builder and Engineer,...have made the shortlist in its competition to design the new multi-million pound visitor centre for the Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve. Sweatin’ the Mediterranean Heat - 22 Oct 2007 RealClimateThe Konya Basin itself, which hosts a third of all groundwater reserves in Turkey and is the home to eight wetland bird species on the brink of extinction, • New use for proposed sewage basin: athletic field - 22 Oct 2007 MLive.com,Secondary uses under consideration for the basin include stormwater retention, wetland development and sports facilities. Any of those options might be Sampson wetland to become Thurman memorial - Oct 20, 2007 Chippewa Herald,Conservation groups are asking for the help of Chippewa County to buy 720 acres of primarily wetlands in the town of Sampson. If the deal can be closed it Group seeking to fill in wetland - Oct 20, 2007 Biloxi Sun Herald,To comment on the firm's wetland application, residents should contact Jennifer Clark in DMR's wetlands bureau at 523-4111 or send an e-mail to Company ordered to fix wetland - Oct 20, 2007 Sioux City Journal,SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a construction company to restore a small patch of wetlands that's been damaged near the Fed wetland conservation unlikely to reach goal - Oct 19, 2007 The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com,Its goal is to preserve 1.4 million acres of wetland and 10.4 million acres of grassland. To date, the US. Fish and Wildlife Service has acquired 700000 Parents fulfill son's dying request by donating wetland - Oct 18, 2007 The Southern,The wetland is also the fulfillment of his dying request. Michael William Wolff, an employee of the Missouri Department of Conservation, was 30 years old Wetland ecosystem changes affect migratory birds - Oct 18, 2007 Today's Zaman,The much-discussed climate change and Turkey’s growing industrialization have wrought changes in Turkey’s wetland habitats, impacting the lives of migratory Bill would turn tide on wetland protection - Oct 18, 2007 Duluth News Tribune (Subscription),Cattails fill a wetland area that Jackson Estates in Hermantown is built on.[CLINT AUSTIN/NEWS TRIBUNE] Not only did the federal government begin regulating Wetland Restoration Takes Shape - Oct 18, 2007 The Nature Conservancy,SWANTON, OHIO — October 17, 2007 — The Nature Conservancy is well on its way to bringing back 100 acres of wet prairie that will improve water quality in Farmland yields to major wetland - Oct 7, 2007 BBC News,The RSPB's chief executive, Graham Wynne, says: ''Wallasea will become a wonderful coastal wetland full of wildlife in a unique and special landscape. DNR to meet on Eagle Lake wetland - Oct 15, 2007 DesMoinesRegister.com,The Iowa Department of Natural Resources plans a public meeting next week on a proposal to designate land in the area of the Eagle Lake Wetland Complex as a Punjab CM orders to construct bridge on Kali Bein to save Kanjli ... - Oct 20, 2007 PunjabNewsline.com,He said Punjab Govt. would ensure Kanjli wetland remains intact and PEDA 200 KV micro hydal project is implemented as soon as possible. Brazil's wild wetland - Oct 5, 2007 Times Online,But Brazil’s Pantanal – the world’s largest wetland, covering an area almost the size of the British Isles – is a carnival of flamboyant fauna. Marin Levee Demolition, Wetland Restoration Begins - Oct 15, 2007 CBS 5,...the demolition of the levees will allow them back to the former dairy ranch as part of a wetland restoration project that has been planned for 20 years. Uganda: NEMA Saves Kabaka's Lake - Oct 19, 2007 AllAfrica.com,According to NEMA and the local leaders of Aggrey Zone, David Lubanga, who claimed to be an investor from the US, wanted to build a hotel in the wetland. Menard’s ‘still definitely planning to build’ in Marshall - Oct 19, 2007 Marshall Independent,Marshall city engineer Glenn Olson said Menard’s is waiting for approval from the Department of Natural Resources on the banking of wetland credits. Botanist discovers plant species new to state - Oct 19, 2007 Prior Lake American,The entire wetland near the fire station on Flandreau Trail is “full of it,� Ranua said. Ranua’s best educated guess as to how the plant got to the wetland Forest dept to renovate Victorian building - Oct 18, 2007 The Statesman,...“The tranquil environment in and around Hukitola are strikingly similar to that of the Bhitarkanika wetland. Thus a voyage to Hukitola would be a visual Rick Marsi - Oct 19, 2007 Press & Sun-Bulletin,The low ones would like to bed down for the night in a wetland adjoining a lake. Upon that lake, yours truly's kayak is slicing through water once choppy Long Neck Elementary students build a wetland - Oct 11, 2007 Cape Gazette,Faculty, students and local volunteers gathered on the grass law behind the school to dedicate a wetland habitat students had created, with a little help Wetlands to vanish within seven years: Environmentalists - Oct 19, 2007 Etalaat,Over the years Hokersar wetland, situated 16 km north of Srinagar, has shrunk to 4.5 sq km from 13.75 sq km. Hokersar is included in National wetland Badal announces construction of bridge on holy Bein - Oct 20, 2007 Zee News,Jalandhar, Oct 20: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has announced immediate construction of a bridge on holy Bein to save Kanjli wetland and its PNG wetland risk to Aussie birds - Sep 27, 2007 The Australian,MILLIONS of migratory Australian birds could be in danger if Australia does not help Papua New Guinea protect its vast southern wetlands, world-renowned Graduate student Casey wins state, national Garden Club scholarships - Oct 19, 2007 FHSU News and Current Events,..."My actual project is on local wetland flora and water here in Ellis County. That was the focus of my proposal," said Casey. "I needed funding to complete Hunters in for slog in the slough - Oct 20, 2007 Sioux Falls Argus Leader,..."Low spots in the road are probably in a seasonal wetland anyway. Guess what? Now it's functioning as a full wetland again. There are going to be problems. CL&P creating a new wetland in Milford park - Oct 9, 2007 New Haven Register (subscription),MILFORD — Connecticut Light and Power Co. is in the beginning stages of creating a 2.4-acre wetland at Eisenhower Park, a project that would normally be Townhouse plan has some residents upset - Oct 19, 2007 Chicago Daily Herald,By Bob Susnjara | Daily Herald Staff Citing the likelihood of added road congestion and wetland disruption, some residents in unincorporated Fremont Trading Wetland Spaces - Oct 7, 2007 The Columbian,BY ERIK ROBINSON, Columbian staff writer Even on a reasonably wet day last week, the Port of Vancouver's newly acquired wetland didn't look like much. EnCana charged with wildlife infraction in Alberta - Oct 18, 2007 Reuters Canada,EnCana spokesman Alan Boras said crews installing the section of pipeline had tried to avoid a patch of wetland and inadvertently strayed into the wildlife Snakes alive! And all thanks to Anne - Oct 13, 2007 Toronto Star,It will cross a wetland where there are several species at risk, including Eastern Massasauga rattlesnakes and Blanding's turtles, both threatened species. Progress makes way for wetland restoration - Oct 6, 2007 Star Newspapers,The adjacent weeds will be excavated and replanted with over 303000 native wetland species to stabilize the banks, and former bean fields will be reseeded Pumpkin Pandemonium at Slimbridge - Oct 18, 2007 SoGlos,19 October to 4 November – The WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre will be transformed this Halloween for the special Pumpkin Pandemonium event. Algae bloom will not effect public’s water - Oct 19, 2007 Russellville Courier,According to Larry Collins, operations manager, Garver continues working with the contractor on the Pollution Control Works wetland relocation project Dawes Arboretum restoring a farm to wetland it once was - Oct 1, 2007 Coshocton Tribune,..."In five years, we want to create a 50-year-old wetland," said Tim Mason, natural resources manager at the Licking County site. Nationwide, about 80 percent Morning business file: Inflation up - Oct 19, 2007 Edmonton Journal,EnCana spokesman Alan Boras said the infraction was unintentional as the crew had changed the alignment of the pipeline only to avoid a wetland area. Farmland to be returned to the sea - Oct 18, 2007 British National Party,A spokesman for the RSPB is quoted as saying: \"Wallasea will become a wonderful coastal wetland full of wildlife in a unique and special landscape. Wetland water spilling into yards, residents say - Oct 1, 2007 Janesville Gazette,By Carla McCann ELKHORN-On a realty brochure, the wetland area in the center of the Elkhorn West Subdivision was billed as a green space park. City completes Sawmill Creek Constructed Wetland - Sep 27, 2007 Ottawa Start (press release),Today, the City officially opened the Sawmill Creek Constructed Wetland, in the city’s south end. This innovative stormwater management facility is just Wetland being constructed near Fayetteville - Sep 26, 2007 Georgetown News Democrat,The 14-acre wetland will be named after Dayton attorney and conservation activist Jim Cross. Cross was extremely active in Dayton's Ducks Unlimited chapter, NEWS | SAN DIEGO International wetland marks 25 years - Oct 4, 2007 San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription),By BONNIE VIEIRA , Special to the Daily Transcript For 25 years, in a remote corner of San Diego County's urban core, much has been happening to restore Protecting Wetland - Oct 2, 2007 Guelph Tribune,...who worked on the weekend to extend a boardwalk trail through the Hanlon Creek Conservation Area, which contains a provincially significant wetland. Conservancy moves closer toward wetland restoration - Sep 27, 2007 Orange County Register,By ANNIE BURRIS HUNTINGTON BEACH The Huntington Beach Wetland Conservancy will hold a public meeting today to inform residents that they are one step closer News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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