Wildlife

There are many places where the ground is literally covered, and the whole heavens?completely blackened, with innumerable flocks of countless numbers of geese, ducks,?brants, cranes, and all the various noisy tribes, of all the feathered creation.? -Lansford W. Hastings in The 1845 Pioneers Guide for the Western Traveler Since colonial times Americans have worked fervently to drain and fill the estimated 225?million acres of wetlands that graced what eventually...