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" In general terms, wetlands are lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface. "
Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the U. S. - Page 3
by Lewis M. Cowardin - 1994 - 131 pages
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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1978: No ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - United States - 1977 - 1224 pages
...record. [The information follows :] Statement concerning definition of wetlands. Wetland is land where water is the dominant factor determining the nature...and the types of plant and animal communities living at the soil surface. It .spans a continuum of environments where terrestrial and aquatic systems intergrade....
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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for ..., Part 5

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - United States - 1977 - 1282 pages
...-record. [The information follows :] Statement concerning definition of wetlands. Wetland is land where water is the dominant factor determining the nature...and the types of plant and animal communities living at the soil surface. It spans a continuum of environments where terrestrial and aquatic systems intergrade....
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Best Management Practices Guidance: Discharge of Dredged Or Fill Materials

Robert E. Thronson - Aquatic ecology - 1979 - 114 pages
...are available concerning the entire system. Wetlands In wetlands, water is the dominating factor in determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities occurring there. Wetland soils are saturated periodically due to fluctuations in surface or ground...
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Final Environmental Impact Statement: City of Portage Wastewater System ...

United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region V. - Environmental protection - 1980 - 388 pages
...2.7.2. and Appendix E) . 3.7.2. Regulations Concerning Wetlands Wetlands are poorly drained areas where "water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plants and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface" (Coward! n and others 1977). Wetlands...
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Final environmental impact statement for the San Juan National ..., Volume 2

Conservation of natural resources - 1983 - 358 pages
...slopes as well as revegetation with original species and filling gullys in with soil. Wetlands - Land where saturation with water is the dominant factor...the types of plant and animal communities living in or on the soil. Wheeled Skidders - An internal combustion wheeled vehicle specifically designed to...
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Columbia River Gorge Act of 1983: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water - Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.) - 1983 - 654 pages
...and trailer parks are not generally considered dependent on or related to water location needs. ter Is the dominant factor determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal comunltles living at the soil surface. Wetland soils retain sufficient moisture to support aquatic...
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Final Environmental Impact Statement on Standards and Guidelines Rocky ...

Forest management - 1983 - 392 pages
...Water Resource Regions. The 21 major hydrologic regions into which the United States is delineated. determining the nature of soil development and the types of plant and animal communities living in or on the soil. Wilderness. Areas designated by congressional action under the 1964 Wilderness Act....
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Fish and wildlife miscellaneous: hearings before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment - Fishery law and legislation - 1983 - 274 pages
...purposes of inventory, evaluation, and management. Wetlands In general terms, wetlands are lands when saturation with water is the dominant factor determining...plant and animal communities living in the soil and on it* surface. The single feature that most wetlands share i» soil or substrate that is at least periodically...
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Impact of Federal Wetland Regulations on the Small Business ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Exports, Tax Policy, and Special Problems - Government publications - 1991 - 312 pages
...found at or on the surface of the land. The US Fish and Wildlife Service defines wetlands as: "land where saturation with water is the dominant factor...determining the nature of soil development and the types of plants and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface." These lands provide the transition...
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State of the Environment Report at Fort Lewis and Its Sub-installations

Joanne Kaye Maris - Fort Lewis (Wash.) - 1991 - 110 pages
...Arctiidae, which construct and live in large webs, as Hyphantria cunea, the fall webworm. wetland. Lands where saturation with water is the dominant factor determining the nature of soild development and the types of plant and animal communities living in the soil and on its surface....
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