What is a wetland and why is it important?
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What is a wetland and why is it important?
A wetland is exactly what it sounds like — land that's wet. Not ocean-deep, not bone-dry, but somewhere wonderfully in-between. Picture a place where water sits on top of the ground for part or all of the year, creating a squishy, marshy, muddy world that's neither quite land nor quite lake.
Wetlands come in different flavors. Marshes are grassy and open, with reeds poking up through the water like green straws. Swamps have trees standing right in the water, their roots half-drowned and half-drinking. Bogs are spongy and acidic, carpeted in moss that squishes under your boots. But they all share one superpower: they're where water meets land and stays awhile.
