RE: NANFA-- Re: nanfa V1 #1505
BILL HOPPE (zzzzzzbill_at_yahoo.com)
Tue, 31 Dec 2002 11:23:17 -0800 (PST)
Just followed your search advice and find that
Arkansas has reportedly had the largest "inland" state
reduction of wetland access .Mainly in the delta area
I believe .
--- "Crail, Todd" <tcrail_at_northshores.com> wrote:
> Some links:
>
> Mississippi River Watershed:
> http://www.epa.gov/msbasin/wetlandloss.htm
>
> Ohio (where I live) has burned thru 90% of it's
> wetlands... ~5 million acres to ~500,000 acres
>
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/news/nov01/1129endangered.htm
>
> I've heard even more pessimistic calculations of
> Ohio's loss, as most of the wetlands left in our
> last decade were wet prairie remnants from the
> Wisconsin Glacier retreat, and are now covered over
> in Maples and Ash due to fire suppression (in
> essence, complete unnatural habitat modification).
> So they're forested wet places in the spring if it's
> been wet, and pretty much dry the rest of the year
> because the roots suck up what remains of the water
> that's not been channeled down a ditch. So much for
> all that prime pirate perch, mudminnow, bowfin,
> pickeral habitat eh? The good news is... All you
> have to do is cut down the trees and the wet prairie
> errupts from no where (it's only been covered for
> 30-40 years in this area). When we're doing habitat
> restoration we always joke that "Some treehuggers we
> are!" :)
>
> Hop over to www.google.com and put in "Wetland Loss
> [State Name]" and you'll quickly see what's not
> around any longer, and what some great people are
> trying to do with what's left. :)
>
> Todd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denkhaus, Robert
>
> Sent: Tue 12/31/2002 12:34 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Re: nanfa V1 #1505
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wicked0458_at_aol.com
>
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows how much wetlands
> have been
> > lost in the
> > country so far, with lots of streams diverted to
> run under
> > malls do fish
> > live there in darkness. I know wet lands are very
> important
> > to water drainage
> > as well as a healty eco systems for clean water
> as they also
> > are used as
> > giant filters as well as large sponges for
> holding water.
>
> Aoocrding to the publication, Status and Trends of
> Wetlands in the
> Conterminous United States 1986-1997 (USFWS), at
> the time of European
> settlement there was an estimated 221 million acres
> of wetlands in the US. In
> 1997, there were 105.5 million acres left. During
> the period from '86 - '97,
> the annual loss rate was 58,500 acres.
>
>
> Rob Denkhaus
> Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
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Bill Hoppe
Yellville Arkansas
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