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This list of Ramsar sites in the United States are those wetlands that are considered to be of international importance, protected under the Ramsar Convention treaty. The United States as of 2020, has 41 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" with a surface area of 1,884,551 hectares (7,276.29 sq mi; 18,845.51 km 2).
The Wetlands Geodatabase and the Wetlands Mapper, as an Internet discovery portal, provide technological tools that allow the integration of large relational databases with spatial information and map-like displays. The information is made available to an array of federal, state, tribal, and local governments and the public.
This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.
Wetlands of New Hampshire (1 C, 3 P) Wetlands of New Jersey (1 C, 10 P) Wetlands of New Mexico (4 P) Wetlands of New York (state) (1 C, 20 P) Wetlands of North Carolina (2 C, 10 P) Wetlands of North Dakota (13 P)
Wetlands Reserve Program. Categories: Wetlands by country. Landforms of the United States. Water in the United States. Wetlands of North America by country. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Cheyenne Bottoms is a wetland in the central Great Plains of North America. Occupying approximately 41,000 acres (170 km 2; 64 sq mi) in central Kansas, it is the largest wetland in the interior United States. [3] [4] The Bottoms is a critical stopping point on the Central Flyway for millions of birds which migrate through the region annually. [5]
The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou". The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked ...
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