Dr. Kim Van Meter
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Assoc Prof @PSUgeography @PSUEarth, exploring human impacts on water under changing climate and land use. she/her 🏳️🌈
Reposted by Dr. Kim Van Meter
"Along the way, we have lost approaching half of our wet peatlands and their wildlife — more than 12 million acres. With little government action, Snowchange’s Landscape Rewilding Programme is the only systematic effort to restore them on private lands."
#Wetlands
e360.yale.edu/features/ter...
#Wetlands
e360.yale.edu/features/ter...
Finland Drained Its Peatlands. He’s Helping Bring Them Back
Tero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland. In an interview, he talks about the importance of bringing Indigenou...
e360.yale.edu
October 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Along the way, we have lost approaching half of our wet peatlands and their wildlife — more than 12 million acres. With little government action, Snowchange’s Landscape Rewilding Programme is the only systematic effort to restore them on private lands."
#Wetlands
e360.yale.edu/features/ter...
#Wetlands
e360.yale.edu/features/ter...
Reposted by Dr. Kim Van Meter
Beavers improve water quality
Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments.
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Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments.
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April 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Beavers improve water quality
Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments.
🧵5/6
Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments.
🧵5/6