Status Updates From Discovering the Unknown Lan...

Ch1: A landscape on the Periphery - 53% of wetlands in the lower 48 states have been lost since the 1780's. Viewing wetlands as any other piece of property has been devastating to surrounding ecosystems because of how interconnected aquifers, river, and lakes are to these wetlands. "While people have always altered the lands they live on, the degree of wetland change has been tremendous, and in some cases, absolute."