The program is a collaboration among the Great Lakes Explorers Group at Pulaski Middle School, UW Green Bay, and Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve.
📣 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW 📣
- Wisconsin has lost about half its wetlands over the last 150 years.
- Wetlands naturally improve water quality – they absorb excess fertilizers, sediments, and pollutants before they reach larger bodies of water.
- A third of the state’s species depend on wetlands for living and breeding.
- Wetlands are crucial in the fight against climate change. Wetlands cover 5 to 8% of the earth, but hold upwards of 30% of soil carbon.
✅ RESOURCES FOR YOU ✅
Clean Wisconsin Science & Research: https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/our-work/leading-with-science/
Learn more about wetlands: https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/our-work/water/wetlands/
Learn how Clean Wisconsin helped protect a rare wetland from being destroyed: https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/15035-2/
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