Wetland restoration

Attention Getter- Louisiana has lost over 1900 square miles of wetlands, and continues to lose 25-35 square miles of wetlands each year. That equals out to a football field of land lost each hour. 2 B. Credibility statement- Louisiana has the greatest amount of land loss due to coastal erosion.3 According to S. Jeffress Williams, “The swamps and marshes of coastal Louisiana are among the Nation’s most fragile and valuable wetlands, vital not only to recreational and agricultural interests but also

percent of the state being marshes and wetlands. It is very important for us to preserve these wetlands and keep them from disappearing like they have been for the past fifty years. Almost eighty percent of wetland loss in the nation has happened in Louisiana. Just in the past ten years the state has seen a thirty percent deduction in the wetlands. The bad thing about these wetlands disappearing is that they are just being converted into open water. While other wetlands in other states are being used for

SCIE 201 Environmental Science Unit 2 Discussion Board (Fri) Mikey (Michelle) Lewis The Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium Restoration project, it is one restoration project of many in the state of North Carolina that make up the North Carolina coastal restoration project responsible for the restoration of the 301 miles that make up the North Carolina coastlines. I have chosen this particular project because it is close to me; I worked an internship for my high school senior research project at the Aquarium

the state funding to help solve the problem before the state lose more coastal land. In order to stop this situation, the state needs to have a stronger structural protection for the coastline (Wilson, 2013). Louisiana's wetlands today represent about 40 percent of the wetlands of the continental United States. (Wilson, 2013) The threat of more land and communities being lost is a much greater concern now, as scientist and coastal specialists predict that Louisiana can lose an additional 1

categories make the management of wetlands more difficult. The public want to protect the wetlands for their valueable functions while privates want to use the wetlands for their direct economic profits. Kohn (1994) suggested that policymakers and society need to balance private rights to convert land with public benefits from keeping wetlands inact by compensating wetland owners or society can regulate conversion of wetlands. However, the facts that about 82 percent of wetlands are privately owned in US

They also act as nurseries for commercially and recreationally important shell and fin fisheries. Nearby land and waterbodies are protected from flooding, storm surges, shoreline stabilization, nutrient absorption, and water quality improvement. Wetlands and marshes not only provide the environmental aspects just mentioned, they also serve as an educational and recreational opportunity for the community. For healthy survival, salt marsh plant species require proper tidal fluctuation. Over past of

the loss of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands has become a point of concern because of the vital roles the wetlands play in the environment. They have been destroyed over time because of natural causes such as hurricanes and weather as well as from the construction of man-made flood-control levees. Wetlands serve many purposes within the environment. Not only do the wetlands effect the residents of southern Louisiana, but they effect the animals that call the wetlands home as well as the industries that

winds. The coastal land is made up of many and various types of wetlands. Wetland types found in coastal watersheds include salt marshes, bottomland hardwood swamps, fresh marshes, mangrove swamps, and shrubby depressions known in the southeast United States as pocosins. Coastal wetlands cover about 40 million acres and make up 38 percent of the total wetland acreage in the conterminous United States. 81 percent of coastal wetlands in the conterminous United States are located in the southeast.

is particularly related to the wetland management which ensures to focus on the minimisation of impacts on the wetland and make sure that there is no harm to environment. The commitments are as under: 1. Identification of existing wetland area to be retained; 2. Avoiding direct and minimising indirect impacts on the wetland; 3. Ensuring no net loss of wetland values and functions; 4. Rehabilitation techniques to be employed; 5. Selection of appropriate local wetland and dry land species to maintain

Introduction Wetlands are one of the most biologically diverse and productive ecosystems on the earth. While they only occupy a very small percentage of land area, wetlands can be located all over the planet, ranging from near the northern and southern poles all the way to the tropics. Many biological, chemical and physical properties of wetlands allow them to provide various functions to surrounding ecosystems, and humans have found personal value from several of these ecological functions. Unfortunately