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With this sort of arithmetic anything is possible in the Bush adminstration. More polution + Strip mining forests + Teaching ourselves to breath less frequently = More fresh air.
Genius!
Traditional tidal, coastal and upland marshes count, but so do golf course water hazards and other man-made ponds whose surface is less than 20 acres.
And so, even at a time of continued marsh depletion, pond inflation permitted Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns to announce proudly on Thursday the first net increase in wetlands since the Fish and Wildlife Service started measuring them in 1954. Wetlands acreage, measured largely by aerial surveys, totaled 107.7 million acres at the end of 2004, up by 191,800 acres from 1998.
What could go wrong with that?
Fewer Marshes + More Man-made Ponds = Increased Wetlands [NYT]
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