In the area where I live there is a development going up and the builders have had to rope off areas that are about 10 feet, get that, feet, square and can't touch them because they have been deemed wetlands by some idiot in our county government.
I see it all the time here. Mudpuddles in the middle of a field that are only wet 3 months a year, are untouchable.
Even older man-made ditches and ponds are now "designated wetlands"