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What
is a Wetland?
Inland
Wetlands
Where
are all the Wetlands?
Wetlands
for the Future
People
and Wetlands
Classroom
Activities
Facts
Links
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WHAT LIVES
IN WETLANDS?
When you enter
a wetlands habitat, you are entering an environment that supports
thousands of plants, hundreds of birds, and almost all of the
fish and shellfish that we consume.
Permanent
residents of wetlands in the Intermountain West include algae,
bacteria, and other micro-organisms; animals such as the mosquito,
dragonfly, and numerous aquatic insects, plus toads, the leopard
frog, tiger salamander, pupfish, crayfish, beaver, muskrat; plants
such as sedges and bulrushes, berry bushes, shrub willows, and
cottonwoods.
Seasonal residents
include the American peregrine falcon, the whooping crane, ducks,
geese, swans, numerous sparrows and warblers, bitterns, avocets,
black-necked stilts, deer, elk, black bear, brown bear, bald eagle,
osprey, trout, and salmon.
RARE SPECIES
AND WETLANDS
Almost half
of the threatened and endangered species in the United States
rely directly or indirectly on wetlands for their survival. In
Idaho, for example, 49 species of rare plants and 29 species of
rare animals depend on wetlands.
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Idaho's
Rare
Wetlands Species:
Bog-rosemary
Bristly
sedge
Giant
heleborine
bog
willow
Purple
meadow rue
Bull
trout
Northern
leopard frog
Coeur
d'Alene salamander
Northern
bog lemming
Brown
Bear
Whooping
Crane
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Other
Wetlands-dependent
Rare Species in the U.S.
San
Marcos salamander
Wyoming
toad
Concho
water snake
San
Francisco garter snake
American
crocodile
Light-footed
clapper rail
Wood
stork
Bachman's
warbler
Roseate
tern
Everglade
snail kite
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