Wetlands like freshwater ponds, swamps, and marshes are excellent natural water purifiers. They are also uniquely equipped to improve water clarity and quality through the removal of kicked-up ...

The Winneconne Breakwall Project is a 2,500ft rock wall, built to prevent erosion from eating away at the shoreline wetland ...

The longest-running conundrum in U.S. environmental history is arguably one of the most elemental: What wetlands and isolated waterways should be protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act? The ...

In the world of commercial real estate lending, laws and regulations are changing constantly. It can be difficult to parse through all that information to figure out whether a court decision or new ...

While some folks might view them as messy, bug-infested places to avoid, swamps, marshes and other types of wetlands provide numerous benefits to people, flora and fauna. Wetlands are areas where ...

Dam-building beavers are known for changing their ecosystems; muskrats can substantially alter vegetation structure.

Keith Hambrecht vividly recalls his first experience with the bane of American wetlands, a tall, dense reed called phragmites. “I didn’t know what it was at the time,” he says, remembering working on ...

What wetlands exist in the Addo Elephant National Park? A wetland is a piece of land that is flooded with salt or fresh water most of the time. There are 437 wetlands of different types in the Addo ...

Wetlands used to make up about 25% of Indiana’s land cover, once earning parts of our state the nickname of the “Everglades of the North.” After years of human development our wetlands have plummeted ...

Georgetown officials are drafting an ordinance to expand wetland protections after a Supreme Court case limited the amount of federally protected wetlands. Georgetown Council approved the 2024 ...

Found in Minnesota lakes and wetlands, native cattails provide many benefits.