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In six pages this paper examines how destroying the wetlands affects the environment, fish and wildlife, climate and water quality, and how they protect humans from the ravages of storms and flooding. Seven sources are listed in the bibliography.
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the Environmental Protection Agency - define wetlands as: "Areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under
normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions" (qtd. in Adler 1). Wetlands refers not simply to water, but also soil
and vegetation as well. They can be marshlands, swamps, and prairie potholes (Adler 1). They are responsible for many essential ecosystem functions, which include but are not limited
to storing carbon, controlling floodwaters, replenishing and purifying water supplies, and providing food and habitat for several fish and wildlife species (Keddy, Fraser, Solomeshch, Junk, Campbell, Arroyo, and Alho 39).
It is believed that the number of acres classified as wetlands are half of what they were during colonial times, with perhaps a mere 100 million acres remaining as
opposed to the 220 million wetlands that existed during the seventeenth century (Adler 1). In the United States alone, it is estimated that there are up to 156,000 acres
of gross wetland losses each year, with 95 percent of those being of the freshwater variety and only five percent designated as saltwater wetlands (Adler 1). The indiscriminate destruction
of wetlands is having a devastating impact upon life and the environment, with the effects evident in the depletion of fish and wildlife, changes in climate and water quality, and
protection of the human population from the impacts of storms and flooding. I. How the Wetlands Are Being Destroyed a. Farming Wetlands are vital to agriculture and farming,
and recent issues involving poor drainage farming areas are contributing factors to substantial alterations of wetlands or losses of them altogether in certain regions (Mironga 81). Improper drainage in
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