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.
How to identify Wisconsin’s common wetland types, Part I
As you explore Wisconsin’s wetlands, you may find yourself wondering just what type of wetland you’re in. In part one of this two-part series, learn more about marshes, wooded swamps, floodplain forests, and ephemeral ponds.
Wetland Coffee Break: Managing impacts of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer on Wisconsin’s wooded wetlands
Join forester Brad Hutnik to learn about Emerald ash borer, including the current status of EAB in Wisconsin, current management recommendations, and its effect long-term on the ecology of forested wetlands.
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).