What We Can do to Restore the Wetlands
The Improtance of Wetlands:
Wetlands are being destroyed to create agricultural lands, industrial and residential construction, and mining, oil, and gas production. In the U.S more than 120 thousands acres of wetlands are being destroyed each year. Wetlands provide protection from flooding, are essential in filtering dangerous pollutants from our drinking water, and created a sustainable habitat for fish and wildlife.
Ways to Get Involved in Protecting and Restoring Wetlands in your Community:
- plant native grasses/trees as buffers along any wetlands to protect water quality
- limit amount of chemicals applied to lawn to reduce polluted runoff
- clean up wetlands and keep it free of trash
- join a volunteer group to protect wildlife animals and save their habitat
- get advice from state environmental agency
- educate yourself and others about the importance of weltands
http://www.wetland.org/education_wetlands101.htm
Brad's Solution:
The nutria population is rapidly growing because there is no natural predator due to their importation from South America. The Nutria chew away the roots of plants in the wetlands of the Chesapeake Bay and New Orleans area. Therefore eradication of the nutria is an important solution to the destruction of wetlands. Since the 1950s nutria have turned six square miles of marshes of Maryland's Dorchester County into open water.
www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=2118
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