Reis Thebault spent months reporting on the ambitious plan to restore Lahaina’s historic wetlands, interviewing dozens of people, reading hundreds of pages of records and scouring archives.

But also, I was very curious about human responses to these wetlands. So that took me into the history. And that, of course, was the fun part. Poking around with the people of the fen, the battle ...

But Lahaina was not always that way. The fire had disrupted the pumping operations that once turned the town into a tinderbox, and now its historic wetlands were showing signs of returning all on ...

Wetland restoration is being implemented as ... was hit hard during these historic deluges. Centuries earlier, the upper watershed of the Marengo would have held onto that water, but logging ...

But given the history of wetland regulation, certainty could still be an elusive target. After all, the Biden administration defended its amended “Waters of the U.S.” rule as being ...

That approval paved the way to restore the historic tidal connection to a greater portion of the wetlands — and reinvigorate the once-thriving ecosystem there. Third District Councilmember ...

“These historic wetlands regulatory reforms will make New York’s communities more resilient to the catastrophic floods, droughts, and ecological disruption brought on by the climate crisis.