Over half of the wetlands in the U.S. were destroyed between the 1600's
and the 1980's. Many of the nation's remaining 100 million acres
have been damaged or degraded by human activity. Massachusetts
has adopted an official policy of "no net loss of wetlands in the short-term
and a net gain in the long-term." Implementation of this policy depends
on the actions of politicians and citizens alike. As individuals
and as communities, we need to maintain the integrity of individual wetlands
and of entire watersheds through preservation, proactive management, and
restoration.
Why should wetlands
be protected? Click here
to find out.
Below is a list of projects on the Conservation New England web site dealing with wetland ecosystems:
The Future of Wetland Conservation