May is American Wetlands Month. To celebrate, NRCS invites you to attend a one-hour webinar highlighting recent findings on leveraging tools to monitor wetland and riverscape health.

In May and all year long, NRCS supports landowners in making data-driven decisions to help wetlands thrive. Wetlands provide fish and wildlife habitat, microclimate regulation, nutrient and sediment capture and storage, water storage to reduce flooding, and carbon storage with resulting benefits for climate change mitigation.

On May 2 at 2:00 p.m. eastern, join NRCS for a webinar that will provide key takeaways from a study, co-developed by Utah State University and USDA’s Conservation Effects Assessment Project. The study leverages the Valley Bottom Extraction Tool (VBET) to identify current wetland and riverscape health in key Western U.S. watersheds and documents restoration effort outcomes. Findings may be used to support conservation planning and assessment and on-the-ground management decisions in riverscapes across the region. While the presentation’s focus is on key Western states, including those in Washington, a diversity of wetlands landscapes can benefit from the findings.

No registration is required. Visit the Conservation Outcomes Webinar webpage below for additional information, including access instructions.

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