Conservationists' concern

Usage examples of wetlands.

This time the money came in hefty election-time checks from developers, their attorneys and members of the Latin Builders Associationthose who most eagerly want to bulldoze the wetlands.

As he neared the wetlands, he caught sight of a row of cygnets swimming in tandem behind a mother swan through the brackish water.

Thus preoccupied, most entrepreneurs remained wary of the buggy, moccasin-infested wetlands below the Tamiami Trail.

We oppress the gays, blacks, Latinos, Asians, Indians, plants, bugs, minerals, the ozone, the snail darter, the wetlands, and the moon.

Sixteen Raptors, all the Marines had, lifted into the air and headed in flights of two to designated locations just outside the wetlands.

Free from worry about rail guns, half of the Marine Raptors stopped firing Jerichos at the Skinks battling the Army of the Lord and took flight after the armor, which began massing as soon as it left the wetlands.

The Bird Road basin and surrounding wetlands feed the Biscayne Aquifer, which filters and supplies our drinking water.

We went birding in the wetlands and saw hundreds of Canada geese getting ready to migrate.

Later that evening, when they were saying good night at her carriage house, Polly mentioned casually, "This weekend may be the last chance to go birding in the wetlands.

Too often, back here, they find themselves chaining through wetlands, the water usually a foot and a half to two feet deep, Daylight somewhere above them, indifferent, the Gloom in here forcing them to shorter sights, more set-ups, closer Quarters.

The weather patterns of Istra bestowed rain in a serpentine belt, low on one continent and coastally on the other, storms breaking on an incredible mountain ridge which created wetlands coastward, and one of the most regrettable desolations of the Reach on the far side.

The wetlands down there near the beaver dam are a sanctuary, and Canada geese and mallard ducks come and occupy the pond, and sometimes a blue heron pays us a visit.

Then in midmorning on a fine April Saturday, I drove over to Alligator Alley and we went humming westward past the wetlands, the scrub palmetto, the dwarf cypress.

The former seaplane facility where Pan American's Boeing-made clippers had landed before flying on to Southampton-and where the airline had invented Irish coffee to help the passengers wake up was on the West Coast of Ireland, surrounded by farms and green wetlands that seemed to glisten in the light of dawn.

Pacian, always a farmer, was now going into tree farming, gradually remaking the wetlands without de -- stroying it.