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Louisiana alone, which holds 40 percent of wetlands in the continental United States, loses wetlands equivalent to the area of the size of a football field every half-hour —about 80 percent of all wetland losses. By 2030 the Gulf States risk a total of $350 billion in environmental losses and risk from rising sea level, land subsidence, and ...
The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) is a 1990 United States federal law that provides funds for wetland enhancement. [1] The law is implemented by federal and state agencies, focusing on restoration of lost wetlands of the Gulf Coast , as well as protecting the wetlands from future deterioration.
The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States.
Mar. 1—HARLINGEN — The final tranche of money from the Deepwater Horizon settlement has been awarded, and $5.6 million is earmarked for restoration of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife ...
View of the wetland trails. The Baytown Nature Center was, for many years, a highly desirable residential neighborhood known as Brownwood with nearly 400 substantial homes on a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) peninsula. [2] In 1961, Hurricane Carla devastated the Texas Gulf Coast, flooding most of Brownwood and ending any new development in the area ...
The newly protected 12 acres of land, which features a stream running through it, brings the total size of the trust's Kellner Fen area to 388 acres.
NFWF also funded efforts to protect and restore critical nesting habitat, while increasing capacity on the Gulf Coast to manage important bird conservation areas. These projects enhanced more than 500,000 acres of habitat for migratory birds.
Scout Motors and Richland County are proposing to protect some 5,000 acres near Congaree Park in exchange for destroying more than 100 acres of wetlands and ponds, and miles of streams for a new ...