Restoring Clean Water Act protections analytical to extenuative avoid habitat.
Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 13, 2007 -- A chief scientist from Ducks Unlimited testified afore the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today to abutment apology of Clean Water Act protections for wetlands. The alignment provided accurate abutment for aldermanic action to re-establish Clean Water Act protections that were aloof in the deathwatch of two contempo U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
The nation’s actual wetlands are at cogent accident of loss, and the waterfowl, added wildlife, and accompanying interests that depend aloft these wetlands are analogously at risk Passage of legislation is the alone aboveboard antidote for abating wetland protections that are as able as those that existed above-mentioned to 2001. waters of the United States. Although some wetlands can be geographically abandoned from accessible waters, they are about consistently ecologically connected An acknowledgment of this actuality is analytical to compassionate why apology of Clean Water Act protections is capital if the nation is to accomplish the Act’s purpose. “The nation’s actual wetlands are at cogent accident of loss, and the waterfowl, added wildlife, and accompanying interests that depend aloft these wetlands are analogously at risk,” said Ducks Unlimited’s (DU) National Director of Conservation Operations, Dr. Scott Yaich, in his testimony. “Passage of legislation is the alone aboveboard antidote for abating wetland protections that are as able as those that existed above-mentioned to 2001.”
An estimated forty to eighty actor wetland acres, including some of the a lot of analytical waterfowl ancestry habitats, accept absent federal aegis beneath the Clean Water Act afterward Supreme Court rulings, which hinged on the byword “waters of the United States.”
Interpretations of those rulings by several federal agencies accept bare protections from assertive wetlands such as prairie potholes, playa lakes and rainwater basins. These areas are analytical breeding, clearing and wintering habitats for waterfowl.
Dr. Yaich provided the science-based angle that while some wetlands ability appear to be geographically isolated, there are around no wetlands that are hydrologically and ecologically isolated. Nearly all wetlands are inherently affiliated to our nation’s accessible rivers, lakes and streams, and groundwater supplies.
“Although some wetlands can be geographically abandoned from accessible waters, they are about consistently ecologically connected,” said Yaich. “An acknowledgment of this actuality is analytical to compassionate why apology of Clean Water Act protections is capital if the nation is to accomplish the Act’s purpose.”
The legislation would abide the absolution from adjustment for farming, ranching and added activities that already abide in the Clean Water Act.
Ducks Unlimited was abutting in abutment of its affidavit by several added civic attention organizations, including the Izaak Walton League of America, the National Wildlife Federation, Pheasants Forever, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, The Wildlife Society, Trout Unlimited and the Wildlife Management Institute.
With added than a actor supporters, Ducks Unlimited is the world’s better and a lot of able wetland and waterfowl attention alignment with added than 12 actor acreage conserved. The United States abandoned has absent added than bisected of its aboriginal wetlands nature’s a lot of advantageous ecosystem and continues to lose added than 80,000 wetland acreage anniversary year
Contact: Rachel Dawson, rdawson(at)ducks.org, (202) 347-1530
For added information, amuse see www.ducks.org/cwra
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