Wetland Restoration

August 8, 2017

Contemporary Issues & Lessons Learned

The Association of State Wetland Managers

Numerous studies have documented the shortcomings of wetland mitigation and voluntary
restoration projects to achieve stated goals. However, despite these findings, there is little overall evidence that wetland restoration outcomes have significantly improved - and wetlands continue to be lost. There is general agreement among restoration professionals that the science exists to achieve restoration goals and that wetland restoration performance will improve if certain barriers are addressed. In 2013, the Association of State Wetland Managers began to identify some of the barriers and established a Work Group of 25 restoration experts, including practitioners, academics, consultants, regulators, and policy makers, to further identify and analyze these barriers and develop recommendations to address them.
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Strategy and Learning

Pathways to Policy Durability

Pathways to Policy Durability

Environment

January 9, 2023

For over a century, American policymakers have worked to implement policies that conserve natural resources and protect the environment, from Theodore Roosevelt’s efforts to establish national parks and the measures enacted in the wake of the Dust Bowl all the way to the efforts of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But simply passing an environmental policy is not the end goal of these efforts—the end goal is protecting natural resources and the planet in the long run. In order to do that, multiple conditions need to be satisfied. A policy must pass, it must be signed, it must be enacted, and it must last.

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How Mapping Beaver Wetlands Can Chart a Path to a Better Water Future

How Mapping Beaver Wetlands Can Chart a Path to a Better Water Future

Environment

Kara Stevens February 9, 2022

First-of-its kind project will use machine learning and remote sensing to track beaver wetland changes in the Colorado River Basin

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Expanding Navajo Water Access is an Exercise in Trust

Expanding Navajo Water Access is an Exercise in Trust

Environment

February 9, 2021

Community-led partnerships are essential in bringing running water to the Navajo Nation's remote residents

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