Isolated wetlands consist of small, seasonal ponds filled with water for only a few weeks a year. They are not connected by surface water to river, lakes, or streams. The bogs of the Northeast provide homes for unusual carnivorous plants and other wildlife. The bottom land hardwood forest wetlands help maintain the river's cycle by providing a natural sink for fl

Not only wildlife ecosystems but also our society need our wetlands as well, yet they are threatened by us alone. Wetlands are very fragile and many factors contribute to their destruction, such as urban sprawl, the building of highways and roads, mining, stream channelization, and logging. Since all of these are immediate threats to our natural wetlands the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a Clean Water Act in 1972.

while an average of 30,000 acres was gained. Nearly two-thirds of the lost wetland acres was due to agricultural production, the rest to non-agricultural activities such as development. The net loss of wetlands has decreased from a level of 27,000 acres lost each year from 1982 to 1992 to 24,000 acres from 1992 to 1997. This improvement is the result of programs designed to restore or enhance wetlands, such as the Wetlands Rese

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