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: Tracking amphibians with HerpMapper
Watch this Wetland Coffee Break presentation to learn how to use Herpmapper: a free app for smartphones that can track amphibians and reptiles, organisms that are often indicators of wetland quality.
Laying the foundation for wetlands as effective solutions
Learn more about how WWA is engaging with partners on-the-ground in Ashland to help promote awareness of wetlands as effective solutions to flooding challenges in their community and beyond.
Private landowners play a vital role in caring for wetlands
If you are a landowner who owns wetlands or lands you think may have been wetlands, WWA and the NRCS can help you care for and restore your land.