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11 March 2026

• Wetlands and Wildlife Center founding member and executive director Debbie McGuire retires
  Debbie McGuire will never forget the memory of the little seabird peering back at her, she said, only the tiny eyes visible through the thick black oil covering its feathers. “My heart was just...
• The wetland puzzle that stumped hydrology for decades—how physics and AI joined forces to predict unmeasured regions
  For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: fields, gentle slopes, small streams. But hydrologically, it behaves like...
• Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock
  A new study takes a first-of-its kind look at how farming converts non-forested areas and major carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.
• Community sounds off on wetlands protection: MP council approves 1st reading ordinance
  The town's months-long effort to draw up legislation to safeguard local wetland areas was on the table at a March 10 public meeting that saw residents mostly endorse a protective ordinance. The...
• Mount Pleasant proposes wetlands protections following Supreme Court ruling
  A recent Supreme Court ruling has narrowed federal protections for wetlands, leaving areas without a “continuous surface connection” to rivers or lakes vulnerable to development.