U.S. Wetlands Are Disappearing Faster Than Ever, and We Just Watch
By Hal Herring, Field & Stream
I am increasingly faced with problems that seem so very far beyond my capacity to solve them. I am almost relieved when some big problem comes flying at me that is real, clearly defined, and imminently solvable. If somebody tells me that we're out of firewood and it's about to get real cold, I've got a truck, gas and oil, an old but solid Husqvarna 262, and a Forest Service permit to cut a few cords of standing dead. I have a clear solution to the problem.
The solution to our wetlands problem is clear as well. There's no question about their function—flood control, water filtration, seafood and freshwater fish nurseries, aquifer recharge, waterfowl production; and, in the case of coastal wetlands, all of these along with the most basic function of all: protection of land from being overwhelmed by the sea and those of us who live there from being destroyed, or having our properties and our life savings disappear with the first hurricane of every season.
There's no mystery here, no hidden agendas, no $50 haircut talking heads trying to tell us it's all a Commie plot. It is just wetlands, doing what they've done for millennia.
I am increasingly faced with problems that seem so very far beyond my capacity to solve them. I am almost relieved when some big problem comes flying at me that is real, clearly defined, and imminently solvable. If somebody tells me that we're out of firewood and it's about to get real cold, I've got a truck, gas and oil, an old but solid Husqvarna 262, and a Forest Service permit to cut a few cords of standing dead. I have a clear solution to the problem.
The solution to our wetlands problem is clear as well. There's no question about their function—flood control, water filtration, seafood and freshwater fish nurseries, aquifer recharge, waterfowl production; and, in the case of coastal wetlands, all of these along with the most basic function of all: protection of land from being overwhelmed by the sea and those of us who live there from being destroyed, or having our properties and our life savings disappear with the first hurricane of every season.
There's no mystery here, no hidden agendas, no $50 haircut talking heads trying to tell us it's all a Commie plot. It is just wetlands, doing what they've done for millennia.
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