The feds expanded “wetlands” to include vernal pools, basically where water puddled during wet seasons, usually spring. I think that backing off that definition is what the MSM is claiming that “half of the wetlands have been removed from protection”.
I had a vernal pool in my backyard, until I put in a French drain.
It’s all those French dudes fault...
By that definition, my LAWN is a wetland. Being on a heavy clay soil, a heavy rain doesn't percolate down very fast, and low spot puddles, (the size of a queen bed), can take up to a day of dry weather to disappear.
Hmmm. Makes me wonder if we can get the EPA to declare the site of Burning Man to be a protected wetland! Gotta save the delicate ecosystem of the desert that occasionally is home to the fairy shrimp!
Send the Burners back to San Francisco where they belong!