Wetlands also provide many environmental services. Wetland areas help remove sediments and pollutants from surface waters and aid nutrient recycling within ecosystems. Wetlands capture and retain ...

About 15 years ago, we had the opportunity to visit Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. Although the swamp was mostly stripped of its signature cypress trees over 100 years ago, it ...

Throughout this past summer, they saw plants they expect to live in most wet prairies. They're waiting for the types of plants specific to fens to show up. A unique wetland in northwest Iowa was once ...

Wetlands are distinct ecosystems that are comprised of exactly what they sound like: water and land. They can be found all across the nation, including in Michigan, but not quite in the same ...

Compared with the steep bluffs of the Driftless region or the north woods' towering pines, you may not think of wetlands as Wisconsin's most spectacular landscape. But these transitional places where ...

WHAT: A wetland restoration aims to revive the natural functions of a swamp or marsh. Wetlands are landscapes that receive frequent or continual water inundation. In Louisiana, there are two types of ...

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Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge, an area of marshland at the eastern edge of New Orleans, is — in biological terms — considered an area full of wetlands. One of the last remaining marshes ...

A line of development stretches across southwest Louisiana, where a new law looks to redefine what wetland areas need permitting for development. (Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator with aerial support ...

Wetlands are places where land and water meet. They provide wildlife habitat, improve water quality, store carbon and slow water down during floods. Wisconsin has about 6 million acres of wetlands, ...