A few years ago, a guy I worked with asked me, “why do we now call all these swamps wetlands?”. At the time I answered, “must just be the way to get people to think about them differently, you know give them some value.” The word swamp conjures up images of stinky stagnant water with a greenish tinge.
However, as I’ve since found out, swamps are just a type of wetland. Which kind of makes sense. There are actually a number of categories of wetlands out there, check these links if you are interested in learning more…
Wetlands on Natural Resources Canada
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