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A Swampy Wetlands Primer
S.W.A.M.P.Y.
An introduction to wetlands and wetland
resources. www.swampy.org
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WATER
Plants
Soils
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S.oils
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W.ater
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A.nimals
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M.ankind
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P.lants
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Y.ou!
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WETLANDS

• Just what are wetlands?

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WETLANDS - Definitions

• S.oils - Natural Resources Conservation
  Service(NRCS)
• W.ater - US Army Corps of Engineers/ US
  Environmental Protection Agency
• A.nimals - US Fish Wildlife Service
• P.lants - US Fish Wildlife Service

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WETLANDS - Definitions

• NRCS - Swampbuster Provisions Areas
  that have a predominance of hydric soils and that
  are inundated or saturated by surface or ground
  water at a frequency and duration sufficient to
  support, and under normal circumstances do
  support, a prevalence of hydrophytic vegetation
  typically adapted for life in satuarated soil
  conditions, except lands in Alaska...

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WETLANDS - Definitions

• ACE/EPA- Section 404 Clean Water Act Areas that
  are inundated or saturated by surface or ground
  water at a frequency and duration sufficient to
  support, and that under normal circumstances do
  support, a prevalence of vegetation typically
  adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.

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WETLANDS - Definitions

• US Fish and Wildlife Service 1979 Cowardin
  Classification Of Wetlands and Deep Water
  Habitat
• Lands transitional between terrestrial and
  aquatic systems where the water table is usually
  at or near the surface, or the land is covered by
  shallow water.

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WETLANDS - Definitions

• FWS 1979 Cowardin Classification(cont) . For
  purposes of classification wetlands must have one
  or more of the following three attributes
• 1) At least periodically, the lands support
  predominantlyhydrophytes 2)The substrate is
  predominantly undrained hydric soil 3) The
  substrate is non-soil and is saturated with water
  or covered by shallow water at some time of the
  growing season each year.

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WETLANDS - Cowardin Classification

• Marine
• Estuarine
• Riverine
• Lacustrine
• Palustrine

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WETLANDS - Web sites

• Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS)
• http//www.nrcs.usda.gov
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) http//www.usa
  ce.army.mil/
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  Office of Wetlands, Oceans Watersheds
  http//epa.gov/OW/OWOW/wetlands
• U.S. Fish Wildlife (FWS) National Wetland
  Inventory http//nwi.fws.gov/Welcome.html
  

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WETLANDS - Web sites

• Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
  http//www.ramsar.org
• Society Wetland Scientists(SWS)
• http//www.sws.org
• Official S.W.A.M.P.Y. site
• http//www.swampy.org
• Gary Hahn Web site http//www.garyhahn.com
  

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WETLAND - Keywords
wetland, hydrology, hydrophytes. facultative.
obligate, mitigation, environmental education,
hydric soils, floodplains, reptiles, amphibians,
waterfowl, snakes, macroinvertebrates, foodchain,
water quality, water quantity, purification,
aesthetics, fisheries, prairie potholes,
pocossins, bald cypress, Taxodium disitchum,
rare endangered, regulatory, drought,
sustainable development, private property rights,
takings, rain forests, global warming,
smartgrowth, taiga, conservation,
preservation, extinction, archaeology, bogs,
fens, compromise, MAture, children, streams,
fishing, biodiversity, apathy, politics, right,
wrong, stewardship, future???
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http//www.swampy.org
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