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- Inland wetlands are marshes
- Coastal wetlands are estuarian lands or salt marshes
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| Wetlands are an important natural resource because of the following: |
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- Natures way of controlling flooding
- Inland wetlands maintain groundwater at proper levels
- Estuarian wetlands are an important food source
- Absorb polluted air and water
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The federal Clean Water Act requires that a permit be issued before a nontidal wetland can be filled or dredged materials placed into the wetlands.
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| an area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted to saturated soil conditions. |
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The Supreme Court has recently ruled that a wetland is found because migratory birds use it as a habitat.
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The designation of an area as a wetland does not always constitute a taking.
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| Who are permits for wetland development issued by? |
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| When will a corp issue a permit? |
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| if such activities, taken individually or together, are similar in nature and cause only minimal adverse environmental effects. |
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| The public trust doctrine... |
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| the state has ownership to all tidelands, the spaces between ordinary high and low water marks, the bed of a bay, and all bodies of land arising from the bay floor.....this test is whether they are tidal land, and not whether navigable ...ownership passed when the state was admitted to the union |
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| What constitutes naviagable? |
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| an area is navigable if it is or once was navigable, or if it is or once was part of the tidelands and marshlands of the aquatic ecosystem surrounding the navigable water. |
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