The state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act, which lawmakers amended in April 2022 and set the changes to take effect Jan. 1, establishes two separate oversight regimes: one for the Adirondack Park and one ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued five new draft general permits and revisions to two existing permits to streamline projects in state-regulated freshwater ...

State Sen. George Borrello only got 10 minutes to question the state’s agriculture and environmental conservation commissioners. The impact of the state’s Freshwater Wetlands Act on Chautauqua County ...

Rivers, marshes, bogs, mangroves, mudflats, ponds, swamps, billabongs, lagoons, lakes, and floodplains are among the types of wetlands around the world. Most large wetland areas often include a ...

Photo by Mike Smoker The state Department of Environmental Conservation has scheduled at least two upcoming webinars to explain the state’s new freshwater wetlands regulations that took effect Jan. 1.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Constructed wetlands initially capture significant amounts of carbon, but this ability declines as they age, stabilizing around year 15. Despite this decline ...