Wetlands Reserve Program Publications

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Restoring America's Wetlands, Report on Program Accomplishments (5.1 MB)
— June 2002. This NRCS report is for landowners, agency personnel, and others that are interested in the wetland restoration accomplishments of the WRP since 1994.

Indiana Biology Technical Note No. 1 (303 KB)
— Using Micro and Macrotopography in Wetland Restoration.

"A Vernal Pond Construction Guide" (72 KB)
— The USDA Forest Service, Izaak Walton League of America and Ducks Unlimited, Inc. are pleased to announce the publication of "A Guide to Creating Vernal Ponds". This easy to understand book contains techniques that the educator, private landowner and public land steward may use to establish ephemeral wetlands. It is now possible to make a vernal pond that looks and functions like a natural wetland. Vernal ponds provide critical habitat to amphibian, reptile, waterfowl, shorebird and bat species throughout North America. Please visit: http://www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/boone/