Vol. 43

Title:
Making Profit from the Swamps

Author:
Robert Papetti

pp: 380-381

Abstract:
My topic, "Making Profit from the Swamps" might be made more general by calling it "Wetland Mitigation "

As a child I grew up in a floodplain area that had drainage ditches, springs, marshes, pot holes and spring floods. I hunted and fished these areas and became quite familiar with the plants that would grow under those conditions. Back then we called these areas swamps; today they have acquired the name wetlands. Tidal marshes, creek banks, and general bay and ocean shore lines are wetlands with a completely different type of plant life.

For the most part the nursery industry has concentrated on the obligate upland species for such things as soil erosion, windbreaks, and strip mining revegetation. The plants used most are natives. They are fast growing, adapted to a wide spectrum of soils and microclimates

A nursery can specialize in three separate groups of plants--obligate upland plants, obligate wetland plants, and facultative species that lie in between

As more environmentalists became

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