Posted by Craig Translated, all areas that are called "swamps" are wetlands. However the word "swamp" conjures up horrible Stephen King-like images of trees dripping with snakes, and monsters wanting to eat us (probably where Bush supporters come from also, now that I think of it!) So we have this on-going crusade to try to get people to stop saying "swamp" because of the connotation of the word, even though a "swamp" is a wetland. Like Linda Ellerbe said in one of her books "its all in how you say it."
on 8/14/2006, 5:10 am, in reply to "Re: Wetlands!!"
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Well...since you asked.....the ecological definition of a wetland is " "WETLANDS are lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water. For purposes of this classification wetlands must have one or more of the following three attributes: (1) at least periodically, the land supports predominantly hydrophytes; (2) the substrate is predominantly undrained hydric soil; and (3) the substrate is nonsoil and is saturated with water or covered by shallow water at some time during the growing season of the year"
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