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.
Developing a shared understanding of watershed-based hydrologic restoration
Watershed-based hydrologic restoration is one of the most effective and important ways to address water management concerns, but it isn’t a widespread practice yet.
Love that yellow iris in your wetland? Think again…
Yellow flag iris is a showy perennial invasive plant that grows in wetlands and on floating aquatic mats and forms very dense mats of rhizomes and crowds out native plant species.
Wetland Coffee Break: Wetland Soils 101: Way more than just mud on your boots
Join wetland ecologist Drew Fowler to hear about the unique and diverse properties of wetland soils.