Distinct ecosystem
Biologically diverse
Hydric soil
A wild and generally inaccessible wetland does an excellent job of biological diversity support, water storage and purification, carbon and nutrient processing, and shoreline stabilization.
“When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most impenetrable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum.” – Henry David Thoreau