NRE 3105 Lecture 1: 1 Intro to Wetlands

• School: UConn
• Department: Natural Resources and the Environment
• Course: NRE 3105
• Professor: Lawrence

Document Summary

Wetlands are some of the most valuable but misunderstood of all our natural resources, mostly because. Wetland definitions they are not easy to define. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands are generally characterized by: hydrology There are different needs for definition: legal and scientific. The state of connecticut definition defines wetlands by the land and soil of the area. Poorly drained, very poorly drained, alluvial, and floodplain soils : alluvium: loose soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting. The us fish and wildlife service defines them as transitional lands between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, with water near or on the surface, and must have certain attributes. In the army corps of engineers, they specify in their definition under normal conditions : this is to protect the wetlands from damage by humans in an attempt to create a loophole.