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We continue to celebrate American Wetlands Month. Did you know Washington is home to nearly one million acres of wetlands?
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Trump administration has made good on its promise to throw out an Obama-era regulation that protected many U.S. wetlands and streams from pollution. The 2015 Waters of ...
The Washington Department of Ecology is seeking more funding to regulate activities that affect seasonal creeks, flooded fields and other landlocked wetlands that the U.S. Supreme Court removed ...
National Research Council (NRC). Wetlands: Characteristics and Boundaries. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995. National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Field Indicators of Hydric ...
In 1990, the U.S. Department of the Interior published a report that estimated that Washington had 938,000 acres of wetlands. It’s a figure still quoted by the Department of Ecology. It says ...
Across the Anacostia River from Nationals Park nestled between the Frederick Douglass and the 11th Street bridges, 110 acres of mostly wooded park and wetlands waits to be developed. Much like the ...
For an exercise in futility, try calling an EPA number in Washington, D.C. about wetlands permits. They just don’t seem to care the way Alaskans care. We have already assumed primacy over other ...
WASHINGTON, DC, USA (CMC) — A new World Bank study says ... per cent of the Caribbean and the developing world’s coastal wetlands currently found at one metre or less elevation.