Posted May 21, 200619 yr Back to: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/NEWS06/605210398/-1/NEWS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article published May 21, 2006 Wetlands-replacement efforts fall short By JENNI LAIDMAN and TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITERS This is how we were to have our habitat and destroy it too. Ohio developers could fill in wetlands, displace wild species, and pave over native vegetation, all the while atoning for sins against nature by buying credits in wetland mitigation banks - large, specially designed, improved habitats, rich in species diversity and protected forever after from the encroachment of development. Morea t link above:
August 9, 200618 yr AMPHIBIAN EVICTION Ohio's huge loss of wetlands has animals on the run By JENNI LAIDMAN BLADE SCIENCE WRITER The blacktop was alive with chubby salamanders wiggling among the cars. It was no accident the animals floundered there, Timothy Matson knew. He is the head of vertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and studies amphibians. These salamanders were remaining true to their roots. They were trying to return to their natal pond for mating. But what was once an Ashtabula County pond was now pavement. More at: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060807/NEWS06/608050303/-1/NEWS
February 19, 200718 yr BUILDERS’ CONCESSION ‘Crucial’ wetland to stay pristine State proposing stricter rules for man-made wetlands Monday, February 19, 2007 Spencer Hunt THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH In the spring, about 60 blue herons will return to their nests on the Northeast Side and raise their hatchlings. Now that developers have scaled back some plans for the area, conservationists say the herons are more likely to return year after year. The rookery, which ecologists call the largest in Franklin County, is in a wetland, and wetlands are vanishing in the Columbus area and across Ohio. More at: http://dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/02/19/20070219-A1-04.html
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