Word: wetland
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DIED. WILLIAM NIERING, 75, wetland-ecology expert; in New London, Conn. He was one of the first to discover that marshes performed important functions and weren't dispensable pieces of land for developers to drain and build...
...Lankard wants to stop the building of a road across the Copper River Delta Basin, a rugged wetland where bald eagles still soar. "This is the last refuge," says Lankard. "Our way of life is gone if they build that road." His opponents had better prepare for a long battle...
...fuss has come about not because the little mouse with the 5-in. tail is an officially endangered species--it isn't--but because it might soon be declared so. On that presumption, federal and local regulators are requiring developers to make elaborate surveys in wetland areas where the mouse allegedly thrives. Paul Banks, a bemused environmental consultant in Denver, says the elusive jumping mouse may be doing as much to curb Colorado's rampant development as all the slow-growth confabs and environmentalists' lawsuits put together...
Nearly $10 million for Mississippi-based projects, including $3 million for the National Food Service Management Institute, $1.9 million for the National Center for Warmwater Aquaculture and $1.6 million for the Center for Water and Wetland Resources at the University of Mississippi, the chairman's alma mater...
...Cook disagrees. He said that the land in question does not have ready access to the Arboretum and "there are all sorts of environmental considerations because [that site] is a wetland. It would probably be very hard to get permits...