Building a Sustainable Future

摘要

What if you could reintroduce fire management to a fire-dependent long-leaf pine ecosystem? Or restore a riverine ecosystem to help sustain the rare gulf sturgeon and reestablish populations of other listed species? Or protect and restore enough habitat to sustain viable populations of bog turtle in the Blue Ridge Mountains? Or perhaps restore a connection between an inland coastal swamp and a coastal river in a rapidly developing area? Well, these are the types of outcomes we can come to expect from wedands mitigation programs if we start using the watershed approach to inform mitigation decisions. All of the outcomes listed above are real, have already happened, and were a direct result of decisions about how and where wedand mitigation dollars were spent.