Federal agency given responsibility concerning agricultural issues. The parent agency of the Natural Resource Conservation Service. Federal agency given the responsibility of protecting the environment and human health. Has jurisdiction over all sections of the Clean Water Act. Agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior given the responsibility of managing and protecting the nation's wildlife resources.
Wetlands includes areas that have been abandoned.
An area that is both part land and part water. Land that has a predominance of hydric soils and that is inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of hydrophytic vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. The act of creating or establishing a wetland in an area where one did not historically exist. Any practice which improves the overall quality of any of a currently existing wetland's characteristics. All hydrological characteristics of areas that are periodically inundated or have soils saturated to the surface at some time during the growing season.