[PDF] Wetlands Protection eBook

Author : Ronald Keith Gaddie
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791443507

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Wetlands are a valuable natural resource, yet over 200,000 acres are destroyed in the United States per year. This book examines whether states should assume the role of protecting wetlands rather than the federal government.

Author : Committee on Characterization of Wetlands
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 1995-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309587220

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"Wetlands" has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused attention on the scientific and economic aspects of their management. This volume explores how to define wetlands. The committee--whose members were drawn from academia, government, business, and the environmental community--builds a rational, scientific basis for delineating wetlands in the landscape and offers recommendations for further action. Wetlands also discusses the diverse hydrological and ecological functions of wetlands, and makes recommendations concerning so-called controversial areas such as permafrost wetlands, riparian ecosystems, irregularly flooded sites, and agricultural wetlands. It presents criteria for identifying wetlands and explores the problems of applying those criteria when there are seasonal changes in water levels. This comprehensive and practical volume will be of interest to environmental scientists and advocates, hydrologists, policymakers, regulators, faculty, researchers, and students of environmental studies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN :

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Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Author : Jon A. Kusler
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN :

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With the increasingly critical need for innovative approaches that accommodate both wetland protection and economic growth, Our National Wetland Heritage: A Protection Guide, 2nd Edition provides concrete information on local wetland resources, how to set your wetland protection policies, new techniques that have come to the forefront since the first edition, and incentive programs that fairly and effectively involve private landowners.

Author : Gary L. Jones
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2001-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780756716455

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Developers (DVP) whose projects adversely affect WL must, as prescribed in reg's. & guidance issued by the Army Corps of Eng. & the EPA, first avoid & then minimize adverse impacts to WL. When adverse impacts are unavoidable, the DVP is required to compensate by restoring a former WL, enhancing a degraded WL, creating a new WL, or preserving an existing WL. One method of mitigation is for DVP to pay fees to public entities or private non-profit natural resources mgmt. org's. that use them to establish WL (known as in-lieu-fee (ILF) org's. ). This report examines the increased use of the ILF mitigation option, & also addresses the use of ad hoc arrang. as a mitigation option. Illus.