Texas' Vanishing Wetlands

dc.acquisition-srcTexas Water Instituteen_US
dc.call-noAcc# 8107en_US
dc.contract-noen_US
dc.contributor.authorJensen, Ricen_US
dc.contributor.otherTexas Water Resourcesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:29:49Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:29:49Z
dc.date.issued1992en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.description6 p.en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractIt is obvious that Texas and many other areas are losing large amounts of wetlands acreage. If these trends continue, Texas may be left without the valuable wetlands acreage it needs for such diverse purposes as habitat for migrating birds, fish shellfish, and other aquatic species, water quality improvement, flood control and other purposes. Some have argued that while losing some high value wetlands would be detrimental, other less valuable wetlands may not be worth preserving. A solution may be to come up with a classification scheme that would sort wetlands by type and relative value. Policy issues must be addressed. Protecting all the wetlands in areas where they are plentiful may make it hard to develop any land. Many property owners have complained that the regulatory process surrounding wetlands is too time consuming and burdensome. Mitigation banking may be a way to make living with the regulations easier while still protecting valuable ecosystems. Groups create and restore wetlands for different reasons: some because they are required to by law, others because they want to improve conditions for hunting, still others because they are interested in resource conservation. These efforts are applauded. More follow up needs to be done to ensure that created wetlands function properly. More science is needed so that successful wetlands can be created more often.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/request.htmen_US
dc.geo-codeTexas coasten_US
dc.geo-codeTexasen_US
dc.historyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/25251
dc.latitudeen_US
dc.locationGalveston Bay Collection; TAMUG Periodical Collectionen_US
dc.longitudeen_US
dc.notesen_US
dc.placeCollege Station, Texasen_US
dc.publisherTexas Water Resources Instituteen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries8107.00en_US
dc.relation.urien_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.subjectwetland regulationsen_US
dc.subjectagricultureen_US
dc.subjectresource managementen_US
dc.subjecthabitat improvementen_US
dc.subjectwetlandsen_US
dc.subjecthabitat restorationen_US
dc.subjectmitigation bankingen_US
dc.titleTexas' Vanishing Wetlandsen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.universityen_US
dc.vol-issue18(1)en_US

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