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Advocates press Senate to protect Carolina Bays, wetlands and consider managed re-impoundment
Summary
Conservationists told senators Carolina Bays and other wetlands are critical for biodiversity, flood storage and carbon capture and urged the legislature to adopt protections and consider managed wetlands restoration and re-impoundment of defunct rice fields.
Speakers at the Senate Fish, Game and Forestry briefing urged lawmakers to act to protect Carolina Bays and other wetlands, and to consider restoration and managed re-impoundment of defunct rice fields to increase flood storage, biodiversity and carbon sequestration.
Trapper Fowler, North Coast deputy office director for the Coastal Conservation League and a certified wildlife biologist, described Carolina Bays as unique elliptical wetlands concentrated along the Eastern Seaboard, with the highest density in…
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