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Pagosa Springs River Walk Wetlands. Photo credit: PagosaWetland Partners Here’s a From The Pagosa Daily Post (Keith Bruno): Swamps, wet meadows, floodplains, bottomlands, bogs, freshwater and saltwater marshes, places where the water stands still and the soil becomes inundated to the point of saturation — these are wetlands. Tuesday, Feb. 2, marked the annual celebration…
Celebrating our wetlands — @AudubonRockies via The Pagosa Springs Sun — Coyote Gulch
From The Revalator (Kimberly M. S. Cartier): For example, in Florida, the loss of just 3% of wetland coverage resulted in $480 million in property damage during just one hurricane. Mangrove forests, marshes, and seagrass beds protect inland areas from storm surges and strong winds. Over long periods, coastal wetlands like these build up sediment […]
via Study Finds Staggering Economic Benefit From Protecting Wetlands — The Revelator — Coyote Gulch
Here’s the release from American River (Chris Williams): The Trump Administration [on January 23, 2020] announced the release of its Revised Definition of the Waters of the United States, a sweeping federal rule that drastically weakens the reach and authority of the Clean Water Act to protect the Nation’s rivers, small streams and wetlands. In […]
From Audubon (Matt Smelser): “The Trump Administration’s new water rule makes it a lot easier to pave America’s critical wetlands and put up parking lots,” said David Yarnold, president and CEO, National Audubon Society (@david_yarnold) after the Administration announced the finalization of its rollbacks to the Clean Water Act. “Wetlands are not only important places […]
via New #Water Rule Endangers Millions of Birds and America’s Water Supply — @Audubon — Coyote Gulch
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