What lives in a wetland besides flamingos, ducks, and other birds? How do plants survive in the soggy soil? What jobs do wetlands do? Wade into this book to find out what makes wetlands one of Earth's treasures.

Swinging between blistering, dry heat and violent flooding storms, the wetlands of tropical north Australia are as difficult to contend with as the competing creatures that inhabit them.

Join the Aqua Kids as they visit the Watershed Stewardship Center in Ohio focusing on the importance of watersheds and wetlands in and around Lake Erie.

Climb aboard the Cleveland Metroparks Water Taxi with the Aqua Kids as they get a history lesson on the Port of Cleveland and the burning river. Take a look back at the glaciers that helped form the Great Lakes and a look at the current conditions of wetlands around Lake Erie.

"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...