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: Spring beauties: Ephemeral ponds
Explore ephemeral pond ecology and some of the wonderful critters found in these wetlands.
Wetland Coffee Break: Using wetlands as solutions to reduce flood damage risks
Learn about Natural Flood Management, a watershed-based approach that incorporates natural river and landscape processes to store water and limit the erosive energy of runoff.
Wetland Coffee Break: Swamp, bog, or fen? An introduction to wetland types of Wisconsin
Learn about the wetland communities of Wisconsin, including how to tell them apart, where to find them, and how you can learn more.