A new state law aims to help developers fill environmental requirements faster, something critics say could throw the ...

Wetland drainage can be devastating on many levels. As ecologist Adam Rosenblatt pointed out in an op-ed last year, the extensive draining of the Everglades resulted in fires ravaging thousands of ...

Piping plovers, a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both. Piping plovers ...

ALDEN, Minn.—Back when 83-year-old Bill Bryson was growing up on a farm in southern Minnesota, wetland drainage was a way of life. The goal then was to dig a ditch or lay underground drainage… ...

The most rock-ribbed offices of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lie within a massive redstone ”castle” just below the bluffs of a Civil War battlefield. The setting is appropriate. For… ...

For the developer, this wetland is essentially a trash-lined drainage ditch scoured out from a former municipal landfill. While nature has reclaimed parts of it, ...

CLATSKANIE, Ore. — Members of a drainage district in northwest Oregon are pushing back against a proposed renewable fuel refinery along the Columbia River near Clatskanie, arguing its wetland ...

Mitigation banks, where landowners who drain wetlands can purchase credits created by wetlands restored off-site, are nothing new. Developers have been using them for decades to comply with Clean ...

In ‘The Big Marsh: The Story of a Lost Landscape,’ award-winning author Cheri Register invites readers to Freeborn County in … ...

Lax enforcement enables SD farmers to illegally drain wetlands by: Stu Whitney . Posted: May 22, 2022 / 12:05 PM CDT. Updated: May 22, 2022 / 12:05 PM CDT. by: Stu Whitney .

Saskatchewan wetlands drainage policy likely outcome of new research project Data derived from a planned 40-acre research project near Saskatoon is expected to be the impetus for eventually ...