The result is a patchwork of laws protecting the nation’s wetlands. But if more Western states were to emulate their neighbors’ efforts and take action, millions of acres of wetlands could be saved, ...

The digital map covers 5,252 acres, including the roughly 4,000-acre area officially known as the Mendenhall Wetlands State Game Refuge, plus nearby tidal and recent post-glacial uplift areas ...

Though construction and development have diminished the Everglades to half their original size, South Florida is still ...

The new wetlands law eliminates the use of the old, inaccurate wetland maps and clarifies that all wetland areas greater than 12.4 acres are subject to Article 24 regulations. Freshwater wetlands are ...

Peat bogs store twice as much CO2 as all of the world's forests combined. A new research center at the University of Copenhagen will map Earth’s wetlands and provide important knowledge about the ...

We all know that climate change has been causing hotter, drier weather, and that helps reduce the flow of the Colorado River that 40 million Westerners depend on. In the Laramie Basin of Wyoming, 67% ...

He says the proposed map would have designated much of his property as wetlands. "There's nothing here for wetland," he said. "1,000 per cent." Lafontaine calls the wooded forest next to house ...

On the maps, these wetlands don’t form a contiguous ring around the lake. Under DEC’s new rules, however, the entire lake, including a 100-ft buffer zone extending inland from the shore, ...

In North Park, Colorado, close to 75% of all wetlands are byproducts of irrigated agriculture. Decades ago, Aldo Leopold wrote, “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm.