The Wetlands Program at RMBO works for the conservation of healthy, diverse wetland ecosystems throughout the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains that support viable populations of all wetland-dependent bird species. The goal of the Wetlands Program is to work with others to conserve wetlands and wetland-dependent bird species, by providing species distribution, population size, species conservation assessment, and habitat-use information to all parties interested in participating in species or habitat protection and restoration.

We all know wetlands... places where we see ducks, herons, and beaver, and hear frogs and songbirds. These may be ponds with thick emergent vegetation along their margins, where animals are obscured; rivers edged with willows or cottonwoods; shallow mudflats with sedges or rushes in a seasonally wet meadow; or a seep-fed fen. Wetlands may be defined by the presence of hydric soils, soils that have developed usually under water, and in an oxygen-starved state. For our purposes, however, wetlands are simply places where the presence of water creates a setting for plants and animals that differs from the surrounding area. These do not need to be wet all year round to be important. In Colorado, rivers, creeks, lakes, reservoirs, springs, fens, playa lakes, and wet meadows comprise roughly a million acres of wetlands statewide.

• Wetlands Conservation with the Colorado Division of Wildlife and Other Partners
• Monitoring and Evaluating Wetlands Conservation Projects in Colorado
• Monitoring Birds at a Wetland Bank
• Integration of Conservation Efforts for Wetland Birds

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