Whether you’re tangling with redfish in the Mississippi Delta, casting for bonefish in the Florida Keys or in a duck blind in North Dakota, America’s wetlands and waterways provide unrivaled fishing and hunting opportunities.
• Coastal wetlands and the incalculable economic and ecological benefits they provide face significant threats from erosion, overdevelopment, invasive species, oil spills and climate change.
• Across the farm belt, prairie pothole wetlands are being drained for intensive crop production. In some regions, up to 90 percent of these critical wetlands, often called the North American duck factory, already have been lost.
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that 100,000 acres of wetlands are lost every year.
• A first step in reversing the trend of wetland loss is to restore Clean Water Act protections to the potholes, marshes and tidal flats upon which fish, waterfowl and countless other species depend.
• America’s hunting and angling heritage rests on our ability to conserve wetlands across the country.
Learn more about the TRCP’s work to conserve wetlands.
Season 1: Episode 7
Partners:
Izaak Walton League of America
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