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.
Let’s put wetlands to work
We need to put wetlands back on the land to help protect our communities from flood events.
How wetlands protect communities during floods
Upper watershed wetlands play a major role in reducing flooding problems like washed out roadways, damaged infrastructure, decreased water quality, and degraded fish and wildlife habitat.
County Wetland Fact Sheets
Use our County Wetland Fact Sheets to understand what your county’s wetland landscape once looked like, what it looks like today, and opportunities to preserve and restore wetlands to solve land and water problems in your community and watershed. Each fact sheet...