. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. by Sarah Friday Peters over Werian. The issues tie so closely to the land. But so much seems to be up in the air for one of North Carolina's most important natural resources. Once, people considered wetlands to be wastelands. The filled, open waters, marshes, floodplains, bogs and pocosins made good farmland and terrain for forests. Wetlands covered 11 million acres of the state in 1780, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Now about million acres remain. State and federal regulations are i
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. by Sarah Friday Peters over Werian. The issues tie so closely to the land. But so much seems to be up in the air for one of North Carolina's most important natural resources. Once, people considered wetlands to be wastelands. The filled, open waters, marshes, floodplains, bogs and pocosins made good farmland and terrain for forests. Wetlands covered 11 million acres of the state in 1780, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Now about million acres remain. State and federal regulations are intended to protect remaining Bald cypress trees in a pocosin lake The problem becomes muddy in North Carolina because d iffer ent sets of rules govern different types of wetlands. wetlands. But the laws wind and tangle like roads with no destinations. No one has a road map, either, as comprehensive wetlands policies don't exist. Loopholes open avenues to bypass the laws. And hazy defini- tions of wetlands muddle the protec- tion process. Recent attempts to streamline wetland management sparked new controversies between environmental- ists and developers. The furor fumes mostly over revisions to the 1989 Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Wetlands and a bill before 6 MARCH/APRIL 1992. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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