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Wetlands - Why We Need Them
Title: Wetlands - Why We Need Them
Category: Science & Technology
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Wetlands - Why We Need Them
WETLANDS: AN INTRODUCTION
"Wetlands", according to a description found at North Carolina State University’s website, is the collective term for marshes, swamps, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands are found in flat vegetated areas, in depressions on the landscape, and between water and dry land along the edges of streams, rivers, lakes, and coastlines. Wetland areas can be found in nearly every county and climatic zone in the United States. Inland wetlands receive water from …showed first 75 words of 3447 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3447 total…of wetlands for agricultural commodity production and can be categorized as disincentives. The Swampbuster provision requires the withholding of all USDA program benefits from any person who 1) plants an agricultural commodity on a wetland that was converted after December 23, 1985, or 2) converts a wetland for agricultural commodity production after November 28, 1990, even if the crop is not planted (USEPA 1991a). Benefits that can be lost under the Swampbuster provision include commodity supports, crop insurance, and disaster payments.
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