yep, in front of the Home Depot in my area, there is a tiny area of "swamp" in front of the parking area with 4 ft tall wire fencing around it. they weren't allowed to pave over the "wetland". it's a 15 ft x 15 ft mud hole is all it really is.

Yup, grew up on 8acre property and the back half is considered "wetland" cant build or disturb the ground back there" or I think it was 10feet from it. The entire area use to be a marshy once (a good few feet of pure peatmoss throughout the entire property and surrounding properties) I guess and they had drained it a long time ago, a drainage ditch runs through that back part and it overflows and create the marsh (dries up every summer xept the pond spot). While, I do not mind the marshland, it is neat to see the water birds, ducks, geese, frogs and the wildlife in general back there, sure would of been nice to build a Gazebo and maybe a lil fairy Brook bridge on one of the areas that is a bit more elevated than the wet parts, to be able to sit down and enjoy the scenery. The drainage does not stop on our property, it continues down through a few others and it always has been a shallow drainage that let out near some farmland. The farmers on that land made use of the yearly water there and it started to dry up because, again the canal was shallow and over time it was just spreading out around the back of our property instead of continuing down the line so.. those farmers contacted my mom and asked if they could dredge the ditch a foot or two to allow the water to flow again and she agreed to they came out and did just that.. Just about time they were done they got a court order to STOP.. ridicules, they were just returning it to how it use to be just 10yrs prior.. anyway.. dont know much more of that story but, first time I was old enough to understand that, the back of our property we pay for, we cant even really use or touch or build on cuz of "muh wetlands"