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Written on: March 14th, 2016 in Wetland Animals
BY Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Thanks to all that extra water lying around, all sorts of amphibians start to come alive this time of year in Delaware. Frogs and salamanders use these seasonal pools of water, or wetlands, to breed and can only do so because predatory fish cannot survive the […]
Written on: March 14th, 2016 in Wetland Assessments
By Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program In the summer of 2012, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring & Assessment Program rated the health of wetlands in the Mispillion and Cedar Creek River Watershed’s tidal and non-tidal flat and riverine wetlands. The goal of this project was to summarize recent gains and losses in wetland acreage, […]
Written on: March 14th, 2016 in Education and Outreach
By Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Winter storms and nor-easters brought excess rainfall, rough seas, and unseasonably high tides to Delaware this winter, highlighting the value of nature’s first line of defense against coastal storms; wetlands. Up and down Delaware’s coast, roadways were made impassable due to rising seas, buildings were battered by […]
Written on: March 8th, 2016 in Wetland Assessments
By Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Every summer since 1999 our Program has gone out into the wilderness to assess non-tidal wetland health in Delaware’s different watersheds. Why you ask? Well, we want to see how healthy Delaware’s wetlands are and if they are able to perform the natural tasks that make […]
Written on: July 15th, 2015 in Education and Outreach
By Brittany Haywood, DNREC’s Wetland Monitoring and Assessment Program Delaware is host to roughly 320,000 acres of wetlands that vary in salinity, soil type and vegetation. Since the early 1700’s, Delaware has lost 1/2 of its wetlands and they continue to be lost or degraded at an alarming rate. There is a healthy network of […]
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