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.
Small wetlands make big impact
Do you appreciate clean water and flood protection? If you do, then you need to pay attention to wetlands—even the small ones—because wetlands are some of the most important features on our landscape when it comes to providing flood protection and clean water for you and your community.
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.