USDA To Invest $5 Million In Wetland Mitigation Banks. (2021, August 07). Retrieved August 22, 2021, from https://www.yankton.net/neighbors/article_7f48d8ba-f72e-11eb-8ad5-b3a23f82cdb4.html
The United States Department of Agriculture is investing 5 million on a program that supports the development of mitigation banks (restored wetland/aquatic resource area). So far, from the start of the first Wetland Mitigation Bank Program grants in 2016, there are 11 states and 21 wetland bank sites in this program. To participate in the program, farmers have to not farm on converted wetlands. The program is efficient and helps both ecosystems and agricultural production.
This is the right direction to head in for the U.S. Wetland mitigation banks are good because they allow for wetland thriving and for effective farming. These banks enhance the ecosystems of wetlands and stop them from being depleted. They are beneficial to everyone, and I think that more states should create wetland mitigation programs to help conserve the ecosystems.
I agree that the restoration of more wetlands is a step in the right direction for the U.S., but do you think that restoring wetlands could have negative effects for the surrounding wildlife that have been living with no wetlands?
I think this is a great step towards a brighter future. Hopefully this may reverse some of the damage that has been done to these ecosystems and areas as a whole. Do you think that this will eventually be seen on a much larger and possibly global scale?