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By FRANK EDENS ’ VDOT District Information Officer . Rappahannock motorists daily Jwhiz past this disheveled, scurbby, -wild and overgrown weedlot without >a thought, without a glance. ■ The Covingtion River wetland is ,home to insects, amphibians, small ;animals, birds and other things that •creep and crawl is adjacent to U.S. <211 at Rediviva at Route 622, Gid J Brown Hollow. \ The area serves not only as a ; habitat, but the acre at times is a > storage lot for waters from the floodi ing river, and is always nature’s wa' ter treatment and distribution plant. j This wetland is one of several in 1 the Virginia Department of Trans) poration’s Culpeper district built to J replace similar areas displaced by i construction. | “This weland in one area con; cerntrates the wetland areas dam■ aged or destroyed during the j construction on U.S. 211 between • Washington and Sperryville” ex| plained Culpeper district environ* mental specialist Roger Clatterbuck.
“We cannot avoid or save every : wetland area in a construction path,” said Clatterbuck, “but we can try to J minimize the impact or replace it.”
He describes the typical wetland i as having w et soils which are low in ; oxygen, which permit only species of ; plants associated with wet conditions to grow and thrive.
A wetland is also a “pristine wildlife habitat,” he continued. “It’s ! where you find more wildlife than
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