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  2. Wetland conservation - Wikipedia

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    A wetland (aerial view) Wetland conservation is aimed at protecting and preserving areas of land including marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens that are covered by water seasonally or permanently due to a variety of threats from both natural and anthropogenic hazards. Some examples of these hazards include habitat loss, pollution, and invasive species.

  3. Wetland conservation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of government agencies in the United States that are in some way concerned with the protection of wetlands. The top five are the Army Corps of Engineers (ACoE), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [5]

  4. No net loss policy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    No Net Loss as a goal for wetland's policy was recommended in 1987 at the National Wetlands Policy Forum . [6] It was first adopted by President George H.W. Bush administration in 1989. The policy, which represented compromise between development and conservation, was grounded on the needs to protect the wetlands by creating and restoring the ...

  5. Indiana wetlands are under attack again. Here's why ... - AOL

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    “The unfortunate thing is that we really should have had a careful and deliberative task force process before changing the wetlands law," Indra Frank with the Hoosier Environmental Council told ...

  6. Methane from tropical wetlands is surging, threatening ... - AOL

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    "We don't know how much [methane is coming off our wetlands]," she said. "That's why we bring in those who can invest in this way, also to do the monitoring to do the inventory, how much we have ...

  7. Wetlands of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Regulations to protect water quality and highway safety require that we create arbitrary boundaries within those gradients, but these boundaries are scientifically definable, and consist of areas where three criterion of the presence of hydric soils, the presence of wetland vegetation, and the presence of appropriate hydrology.

  8. Opinion: Habitat for all — how housing and biodiversity can ...

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    We have fragments of similar policy in this country, as with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s wetlands programs, and many successful efforts to rewild blighted corners of our cities, from ...

  9. Conservation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A study conducted by the University of Georgia reported that environmentalists should team up with ecotourists in order to have the best chance to preserve fragile ecosystems and lands. [59] Tourism provides economic incentives to conserve lands, for if protected lands are seen as revenue-generating tourist destinations, there is monetary ...