Publications

*Asterisk indicates a publication of the Wetlands Initiative's Fact Sheet series

Water Quality Trading

*Growing wetlands for Clean Water: Can new water quality trading markets improve water quality in the Corn Belt?

*Measuring a test market for nutrient farming: Finding profits in the Illinois River Watershed 

Nutrient Management

*Nutrient Farming: An economic strategy to improve water quality

*Can wetlands cost effectively manage nutrients? Cost comparison of conventional wastewater treatment vs wetland treatment

*Finding value in wetlands

The Roles and Benefits of Wetlands in Managing Reactive Nitrogen. By Donald L. Hey, Jill A. Kostel, William G. Crumpton, William J. Mitsch, and Brian Scott. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 67, No. 2 (March/April 2012). pp 47A-53A.

Nutrient Farming: A Means to Finance Large-Scale Restoration By Donald Hey, Jill Kostel, and Gary Sullivan Chicago Wilderness Online Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (April 2007). 8 pp.

Nutrient Farming and Traditional Removal: An Economic Comparison By Donald L. Hey, J.A. Kostel, A. P. Hurter, and R. H. Kadlec. 2005. Water Environment Research Foundation, 58 pages. The project derived cost equations for nutrient removal using conventional wastewater technology and treatment wetlands. The project also created a nutrient removal model—and associated parameters—for treatment wetlands and demonstrated the savings in capital and operating costs that treatment wetlands can provide.

Nutrient Farming: The business of Environmental Management. By Donald L. Hey, Laura S. Urban, Jill A. Kostel. Ecological Engineering: The Journal of Ecosystem Restoration, Vol. 24, No. 4 (April 5, 2005), pp 279-287.

Nitrogen Farming: Harvesting a Different Crop By Donald L. Hey, Ph.D.  Restoration Ecology: The Journal of the Society for Ecological Restoration, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 2002.

Flooding

An Ecological Solution to the Flood Damage Problem. By Donald L. Hey, Jill Kostel, and Deanna Montgomery. In: Criss, R.E. and Kusky T. M. 2009. Finding the Balance between Floods, Flood Protection, and River Navigation, Saint Louis University, Center for Environmental Sciences.

*Flood Damage Reduction in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: An Ecological Means. TWI led a two-year study (2004-2006) to analyze data from 77 counties in the 100-year floodplain in Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin and identified 1.9 million acres that could be used to store emergency floodwaters. These areas are former or degraded wetlands or areas behind levees. Funded by McKnight Foundation.  

Modern Drainage: The Pros, the Cons, and the Future. By Donald L. Hey. 2002. From Hydrological Science and Technology, Vol. 18, No. 1-4, American Institute of Hydrology.

Flood Reduction through Wetland Restoration: The Mississippi River Basin as a Case History. By Donald L. Hey and Nancy S. Phillipi. 1995. Restoration Ecology, 1995, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 2-17.

Reinventing a Flood Control Strategy. By Donald L. Hey and Nancy S. Phillipi. 1994. Published by TWI.

Ecosystem Research

Effects of a rapidly increasing population of common carp on vegetative cover and waterfowl in a recently restored Midwestern shallow lake. By Przemyslaw G. Bajer, Gary Sullivan, and Peter W. Sorensen. 2009. Hydrobiologia, 2009, Vol. 632, No. 1, pp. 235-245.

The Use of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Imagery for the Study of Prairie Ecosystems. By J. P. Tandarich, W. J. Sluis, L. Biehl, C. Johannsen, and P. Carter. 2001. Research study; report and images available on the web.

Carbon

*Can wetlands address global warming? 

Wetlands and Agriculture: Quick Guides

*Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)
*Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)  
*Nutrient Management Plan (NMP)
*Wetlands

Selected News and Media

Midewin Prairie starts to matter. By Dale Bowman. Chicago Sun-Times, October 23, 2011.

Restoring prairies in the Prairie State. By Mary Owen, photographs by Chuck Berman. Chicago Tribune, October 17, 2011, page 4.

Harvesting the Future: Volunteers converge on Hennepin and Hopper Lakes to collect seeds needed for wetlands restoration. By Clare Howard, photographs by David Zalaznik. Peoria Journal Star, October 24, 2010, Section D5. 

A Backwater Reborn: The creation of a lush waterfowl refuge from idle farmland shows nature's vast powers of recovery. By Clare Howard, photographs by David Zalaznik. Peoria Journal Star, June 22, 2006, Section C, page 10.

Fill It and They Will Come: Resurrected wetlands become flooded fields of dream for Illinois sportsmen. By Mike Pehanich. BASS Times (magazine of B.A.S.S. Federation), February 2005, Volume 35, No. 2, page 45.

Bringing Back Hennepin and Hopper: A Vision of The Wetlands Initiative. By Robert J. Reber. Illinois Steward magazine, Winter 2004.