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Missouri Department of Conservation. 2007-01-01. [permanent dead link ] "Google Earth File". Conservation Atlas Online. Missouri Department of Conservation. 2007-06-18. Archived from the original on 2010-08-12.
The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) was a voluntary program offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers the program with funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation .
"No Net loss" is the United States government's overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland loss due to economic development with wetlands reclamation, mitigation, and restorations efforts, so that the total acreage of wetlands in the country does not decrease, but remains constant or increases.
Wetland complex, south side of Chase Lake Prairie Project headquarters. The project is an effort to ensure future protection of the region, whereby ranchers and farmers agree to utilize native grasses when planting, rotate cattle regularly to prevent overgrazing, restore wetland environments that have been drained and prevent over hunting and predation from mammals such as the coyote and fox.
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.
Compensatory mitigation includes measures to restore, create, enhance, and preserve wetlands to offset unavoidable adverse impacts. [12] It is a form of environmental mitigation and can include both on-site (on or adjacent to the site of impacts) and off-site mitigation.
When altered flow regimes have impacted riparian zone health, re-establishing natural streamflow may be the best solution to effectively restore riparian ecosystems. [2] The complete removal of dams and flow-altering structures may be required to fully restore historic conditions, but this is not always realistic or feasible.
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust; This is an excerpt from the main page: Logo of the charitable organisation the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. "The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) is an international wildfowl and wetland conservation charity in the United Kingdom. Its patron is Charles III, and its president is Kate Humble." IUCN UK Peatland Programme