Volunteers restore wetland
Noel Runyan, Contributing Writer
Issue date: 4/25/06 Section: News
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Additional events included walking lectures from two UA professors in the department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. Chuck West led a group deep into the bush to discuss the vital ecological role of a wetlands preserve.
"A wetlands is a mosaic of ecosystems", he said. "A major goal of this project is to eliminate honeysuckle." West said, it is "a smothering type of plant" that keeps the wetlands from performing one of their essential ecological tasks, purifying any water that runs through it.
Soil Chemist Dave Miller elaborated further: "In terms of water quality, they [wetlands] are extremely important." In a process known as "de-nitrification," micro-organisms unique to the wetlands' environment extract Nitrogen gas from any water that may run thorough its soil, he said. This filtering property of wetlands has become more widely adopted.
Even the Wal-Mart Super center on sixth Street in Fayetteville has begun to filter the water from their parking lot into the World Peace Wetlands before disposing of it in the city water supply.
"A wetlands is a mosaic of ecosystems", he said. "A major goal of this project is to eliminate honeysuckle." West said, it is "a smothering type of plant" that keeps the wetlands from performing one of their essential ecological tasks, purifying any water that runs through it.
Soil Chemist Dave Miller elaborated further: "In terms of water quality, they [wetlands] are extremely important." In a process known as "de-nitrification," micro-organisms unique to the wetlands' environment extract Nitrogen gas from any water that may run thorough its soil, he said. This filtering property of wetlands has become more widely adopted.
Even the Wal-Mart Super center on sixth Street in Fayetteville has begun to filter the water from their parking lot into the World Peace Wetlands before disposing of it in the city water supply.
