Wetlands

ways to intercept and divert the contaminants from reaching fresh water sources. One option that is practical and easy to implement are constructed wetlands. Constructed wetlands (CW) are like natural wetlands, but manmade. Wetlands, rightfully named, love the water and thrive in water-saturated environments. Because of this trait natural wetlands have long helped with slowing runoff and other water-management techniques including: consuming nutrients, denitrification (converting nitrates into nitrogen

Acres and acres of irreplaceable forests and wetland taken away for one purpose: more money. PolyMet wants to build a copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota. They don’t want to just build this mine on a black field in northern Minnesota but on Chippewa National Forest. PolyMet does own the mining rights of this specific chunk of land, but USFS owns the land on top. I think this mine is a terrible idea because it will create both land disturbances and air and water pollution. I think a mine created

Thomas Biebighauser is a wildlife biologist and wetland ecologist. He mostly discussed wetland drainage. Draining wetlands began when farmers tried to create farm land on piedmont hillsides. However, the farmers would lose soils from the water running down the hillside, causing gulleys to form at the bottom. The drainage of these wetlands became critical for the harvesting of crops. People began to dig ditches because a ditch eliminates standing water and lowers the elevation of groundwater. Farmers

be able to move. During the process creating the proposed corridor, the focus was to connect the small pockets of wetlands that can easily be connected. Thus, meaning the corridor need to be on a local scale, thus we need to go through smaller local government. With a smaller scale corridor, does not have to be extremely wide because all the species in the wetlands are of the smaller variety. The proposed corridor follows a creek and a river meet up making it a water-based corridor. Since

Research Question- To what extent do Brevard County residents believe the Environmental Protection Agency’s laws, in place, are effectively written and enforced to protect wetlands from landfills? On Florida’s Space Coast in Brevard County, the main landfill that is located on Sarno Road, is expected to exceed capacity within the next five years. Another large landfill, located in the north area of the county is expected to exceed capacity within the next twenty years. Because of the current need

From the presentation the 6th mass extinction: 1. Describe what biodiversity is and why biodiversity is so important. Biodiversity is the variety of spices within plants and animals in the environment, it is an indicator of ecosystem health. The importance of biodiversity: Biodiversity provides humans with food and materials (like wood) that benefiting the economy. Biodiversity performs a variety of ecological services: from absorbing chemicals to cleaning water and providing oxygen. Some types

brought with them different agricultural practices and new perspectives that clashed with those of the Indigenous communities. Wetlands are just

than at the wetland area and will be more active in the morning. Intro/ Discussion: After observing the westfield river and the wetland land area for birds as a group, we discovered a higher amount at the river. There was 21 birds spotted at the Westfield river and 19 at the wetland area. This proves part of our hypothesis correct. We believed from the beginning that this would be case because the wetland area acts as nesting zone for the birds. The dense vegetation at the wetland makes it easy

Northern Leopard Frog In their movements, northern leopard frogs can encounter native grass prairie as well as crop fields and grazed pastures that potentially can act as barriers to their movements. Since grassland prairie and wetlands in the PPR have been greatly reduced, the wetlands that are highly depended on by the northern leopard frog to complete its’ life cycle in the prairie pothole region have become separated by greater distances. Depending on the cover type through which a frog must move, it

Louisiana have been impacted by climate change. Tidwell brings to attention that Louisiana has 40% of the United States’ wetlands, but people do not realize all of the economic benefits and ecosystem services that these wetlands provide. Sadly, these wetlands are being submerged and destroyed at the rate of over a football field an hour. The main causes of Louisiana’s wetlands disappearing are the levees that prevent the Mississippi from dropping rich sediment at the mouth of the river to create