§ 1775 Wetlands Mitigation Bank Act

• •This law is about protecting wetlands in a specific part of California.
• •If someone wants to destroy wetlands, they must help restore or create new ones.
• •The law was created in 1993 and started working in 1994.

A farmer wants to drain a wetland to plant crops.

This law says the farmer must help protect or create new wetlands somewhere else to make up for the loss.