Wetlands
An area of the landscape that is the ecotone between terrestrial and aquatic environments. They have standing water for some period of time during the growing season, possessing such features as varying and unique hydrologic conditions, unique soil types, plants adapted to tolerate saturated conditions and animals with adaptations to live in these conditions.
what is a wetland?
The presence of permanent standing water reducing the ability for aerobic respiration.
What is the main driver producing organic soil types?
Aerenchyma tissues
What is the most common morphological adaptation that is found in the stems and roots of wetland plants?
Upland Review Area
What is the upland area at a designated distance from a flagged wetland or watercourse that is reviewed by the commission to protect the resource?
Pneumatophores
What are the structures growing from Taxodium distichum trees in the cypress swamps of the southern U.S.?
poorly drained, very poorly drained, alluvial & floodplain soils qualify as a wetland.
what are soil drainage classes that define wetlands in Connecticut?
this element leaves orange stains in the soil when the water levels are high in long periods of the growing season
What is Iron?
Sedges have edges
Rushes are round
Grasses have joints & grow from the ground
what is the mnemonic for remembering the difference between grasses, sedges & rushes?
Queach Corp. v. Town of Branford IWWC
What is the 2001 CT Supreme Court case that had a major impact to wetland regulation?
Highway Method
What is the model regulators are using to assess wetland values in New England?
palustrine wetland
what is the most common wetland found in Connecticut?
water moving in soil causes this element to leave an odor similar to rotten eggs
What is sulfur being reduced?
mole salamanders
what are the obligate mega-fauna of vernal pools?
It is not the distance BUT the IMPACT to the resource that matters.
What is the main takeaway from the Queach Corp. v. Town of Branford IWWC decision?
Ducks Unlimited
what is the organization that spends the most on wetland restoration in North America?
this method allows CT to recognize those areas during times of drought when there is no surface water present, or during winter when characteristic wetland indicator plants may not be obvious.
what are the reasons CT defines wetlands by soils only?
reducing bacteria precipitate this element from the soil leaving a gray color to the soil
What is manganese?
Wood Ducks
what are one of the many obligate birds found in wetlands?
Intervenor status
What is not in the statute protecting wetlands, (Connecticut General Statues Sections 22a-36 through 22a-45) but affords every person the right to question the decision of any wetland commission?
The most restrictive permit with lots of input and monitoring.
What is the towns IWWC?
Plants, Soils & Hydrology
what are they components used to define wetlands by the federal government and the states of New England besides CT?
Hardpan
What is the common name of the soil type the Wisconsin Glacier left behind from smearing ground up rock across the landscape?
dragonflies
what is the insect that is critical to aquatics environments and has species living in every wetland system in the U.S.?
amended your IWWC application or go to court
what are the options if you don’t like the outcome of your wetland application?
1st rule of wetland construction
what is inform the landuse office before you start?