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.
Fixing the water: Community-led watershed-based hydrologic restoration in Wisconsin
We’ve seen how human actions have disrupted hydrology and brought widespread societal and ecological challenges. Now, let’s look at how we can reverse (and are reversing) the damage.
Wetland Coffee Break: New field guide to amphibian egg masses and larvae
Ever wonder what that tadpole is? Need to better identify wetland indicators on your wetland delineations? The new “Field Guide to Amphibian Eggs and Larvae of the Western Great Lakes” can help.
New Field Guide to Amphibian Eggs and Larvae of the Western Great Lakes!
This pocket field guide will help natural resource professionals and citizen scientists alike identify the eggs and larvae of amphibians found in the Western Great Lakes.