Audrey Caro
The method Linn County planners use to determine the location of wetlands is at odds with recommendations of state and federal agencies, according to a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service official.
A wetland designation affects land use and building permits and can require that a property owner pay for wetlands mitigation.
Mitch Bergeson, a project leader for of the USFWS’s National Wetlands Inventory department, sent an email on Nov. 9 to “clarify some…