A wetland is defined by the transitional land between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water. Type 1 wetland Seasonally flooded basins or flats in which soils is covered with water or is waterlogged during variable seasonal periods but usually is well drained during much of the growing season. Type 1 wetlands are located in depressions and in overflow bottomland along watercourses, and in which vegetation varies greatly according to season and duration of flooding and includes bottomland hardwoods as well as herbaceous growths. Inland fresh meadows in which soil is usually without standing water during most of the growing season but is waterlogged within at least a few inches of the surface.
Vegetation includes grasses, sedges, rushes, and various broad-leafed plants.
Meadows may fill shallow basins, sloughs, or farmland sags, or may border shallow marshes on the landward side. Inland shallow fresh marshes in which soil is usually waterlogged early during the growing season and often covered with as much as six inches or more of water. Vegetation includes grasses, bulrushes, spike rushes, and various other marsh plants such as cattails, arrowheads, pickerelweed, and smartweeds. These marshes may nearly fill shallow lake basins or sloughs, or may border deep marches on the landward side and are also common as seep areas on irrigated lands. Inland deep fresh marshes in which soil is usually covered with six inches to three feet or more of water during the growing season.