The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has completed a 10-year effort to provide much more accurate maps of Minnesota’s wetlands. The update of the state’s National Wetlands Inventory used new ...

Catie Leary writes and curates visual stories about science, animals, the arts, travel, and the natural world. Although it is the third-largest national park in the contiguous U.S., only 20% of the ...

The goal is to improve local mapping by detecting wetland presence and absence with an AI deep learning model. Following pilots in Kent County, Delaware and elsewhere, here’s what’s next for the ...

KENT ISLAND, Md. — Megan Lang, chief scientist at the National Wetlands Inventory, leads a team tracking wetlands changes across the country. Staring down a 2022 congressional deadline, Lang’s team ...

Few areas in the nation have lost more wetlands than the state of New Jersey. The major causes are a growing population, expanding development and, until recently, a lack of effective resource ...

Combined with other recent map updates, approximately 80% of Vermont’s wetland maps will soon be current, leaving only 20% outdated. The updates are required by the Flood Safety Act, Act 121, passed ...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service is likely to receive a decidedly mixed bag of comments on a rule it issued last month that seeks to clarify when producers have wetlands on their farms.

Technical manuals that provide agency wide guidance on wetland delineation are a relatively recent arrival in federal wetlands programs. Before 1986, none of the federal agencies with regulatory ...