The projects include improving wetlands in the Picayune Strand in Southwest Florida and repairs to Lake Okeechobee's dike.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

and i remind people that when those wetlands?

我提醒人们？

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but the people who suffered most from the damage in the lowland areas in the city who happen to be people in color have nothing to do with the decisions made on these wetlands.

但在这场灾难中,生活在城市低地处的人们,遭受了最为严重的损失,而这群人又恰好是,对湿地有关决策,无从置喙的有色人种。

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Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

For example, the numbers of many wetland birds have recovered since measures were taken to protect more than twelve million hectares of wetlands.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Even larger efforts to drain the wetlands continued between nineteen oh five and nineteen ten.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

They're all gone too." New Orleans was built on low-lying wetlands along the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

The island has thick wetlands, tall oak trees and a lot of wildlife.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The Chesapeake Bay sometimes flows over the wetlands, which cover half the land.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

The expansive wetlands stretch across more than six hundred thousand hectares.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

In June,volunteers placed seventy-six thousand spartina plants in a wetlands area.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

"There are different ways of evaluating how well stormwater practices clean water things like ponds and wetlands and permeable pavement."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"Well,if the oil did get into the interior of the wetlands it could be very devastating.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

As the oil has spread and washed ashore at Gulf Coast beaches and wetlands, cleanup crews have been trying to scoop up what they can.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Richard Dacosta is the West Africa coordinator for the development group Wetlands International.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The job would be tougher in fragile wetlands, like in Key Largo.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Engineers have found that wetlands, grassy fields and soil or sand filters can take in stormwater with different levels of pollution and release water with a relatively constant cleanliness.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"Well the Louisiana wetlands are just an amazing ecosystem.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

"We are at 100 percent of our planning level in terms of protection of Gulf islands,national seashore, to protect predominantly the wetlands and estuaries and sea grass beds that are on the backside of the islands."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26