Replacement of filled wetlands awaits restoration of new banks

Noted: “More wetlands are being created than are being destroyed (nationally), which is good news until you look at the fine print, which was most of the ones being created are shallow ponds,” said Quentin Carpenter, a senior lecturer at UW-Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. “Sedge meadows take millennia to create. There’s no way to hurry that process.”