For communities
Why wetlands?
Healthy wetland landscapes contribute to the health, safety, and livability of nearly every Wisconsin community. Learn more about how wetlands provide cost-effective amenities and services to your community.
Tools for communities
Learn more about wetlands – Find tools and resources that explain the benefits of wetlands and how you can use wetlands to protect public health, safety, and welfare.
Model wetland conservation ordinance – Explore policy options that your community can adopt to put wetlands to work for achieving community goals and priorities.
Wetlands in your community – Learn about your county’s current and historical wetland landscape.
Updates for communities
We regularly post updates, information, and various information for communities. Check out a few recent posts below.
Wetland Coffee Break: Establishing a Bay of Green Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
Watch Emily Tyner’s presentation on the process to designate the Bay of Green Bay as a National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR).
Wetland Coffee Break: Ears in the Driftless
Learn how landowners Mike and Marcie O’Connor are using this technique to document habitat changes over the course of restoring wetlands on their land.
Finding the right projects and practices to implement watershed-based hydrologic restoration
A design charrette for the Marengo River watershed.