From the White House Council on Environmental Quality, this is the second annual progress report on President George W. Bush’s Wetlands Initiative. Since the President set the goal on Earth Day 2004 to move beyond “no net loss” of wetlands and attain an overall increase in the amount and quality of wetlands in America, we have restored, created, protected, or improved 1,797,000 acres of wetlands. We now have 588,000 acres of wetlands that did not exist in 2004, we have improved the quality of 563,000 acres that already existed in 2004, and we have protected the high quality of another 646,000 acres of existing

wetlands. These accomplishments were achieved through conservation programs separate from the mitigation programs that increase and improve wetlands as replacements for wetlands developed for other uses.