Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of
productive wetland habitat using existing resources.
These activities can have harmful environmental effects including draining of
wetlands, destruction of amphibians and reptiles by heavy equipment, erosion and sedimentation, and other, permanent or long - term alterations of
productive wildlife
habitat.