wetland

To me the bigger issue is wetland loss since flood walls will likely prevent the replacement of higher-elevation wetlands.

Lots of ways to monetize that ecological value these days via wetland banking, conservation easements, etc.

Half of what was Batavia was inpassable wetland and the rivers followed a different path likely more following the roads.

For a crew of 8 people, the area of plants, crops & wetland covered 3.14 acres.

It should be captured and treated and stored, diverted into marshes and other wetland areas.

You agree to lock up the wetland portion of your property, they give you cash.

I live beside a river and a wetland, though, so I have insects and worms all the time.

Both wetland banking and conservation easements effectively do the same thing...you transfer/sell the ecological value to someone that values it, and lock it into being a wetland into perpetuity (or some agreed-to number of years).

The natural state would be a low lying brackish wetland that's regularly flooded by the sea, and the natural state would be constantly evolving.

A person can own a piece of land for decades, and suddenly wetland regulation or a community action board can prevent them from using that land.

I spent much of my senior year in a local wetland taking water samples.

Much like how a corn fields is not a wetland.

In the case of wetland banking, a developer may purchase the "banking credits" produced by your wetland to offset the destruction of a wetland on their site.

They are particularly useful here because there are large amounts of protected "wetland" scattered throughout the area.