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, ...

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

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 ...

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% ...

At some point in 2023, Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources pushed through updates to its map of provincially protected wetlands, and 55 hectares in Ottawa's rural west end were dropped. Two ...

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.