WETLANDS PROTECTION THROUGH BUFFER MAINTENANCE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY (A Personal Approach to Wetland Protection Through Shoreline Restoration)

摘要

The protection of wetlands, especially though the protection and maintenance of wetland buffers on private property, is a responsibility of all of us who are entrusted with the stewardship of this magnificent resource. To some degree it remains a moral responsibility as not all that needs to be done can be accomplished through the adoption and enforcement of more statutes, regulations, or incentives. We just need to do it. Grassroots organizations have an important scientific contribution here, because they can accomplish through education, training, and just plain fun that which we lawyers cannot do with all of the laws in the world, nor which we scientists can accomplish with all of the erudite research and publications we can turn out. They make the science "happen."