1. WETLANDS:
Entrepreneurs see opportunity as U.S. promotes 'third party' restorations

MOBILE, Ala. -- The European steelmaker that chose Alabama's Gulf Coast for its new U.S. manufacturing plant got a big assist in negotiating laws aimed at protecting wetlands on one of the nation's soggiest landscapes. As an incentive to lure the company, ThyssenKrupp, the state of Alabama wrote a $624,900 check to a commercial wetlands-restoration project near Mobile Bay. Go to story #1

2. WETLANDS:
An Ala. family seeks profit in reviving 'a junk forest'

ALABAMA PORT, Ala. -- For 20 long years, Milton L. Brown courted the oil and gas industry with hopes of convincing a company to buy 872 acres of wet pine savanna that his wife's family owns on the western edge of Mobile Bay. But Brown, 74, is no longer dreaming about peddling the troubled property. What was once a family real estate problem is now the Alabama Port Mitigation Bank, which Brown hopes will generate cash from developers paying to restore degraded wetlands in exchange for government permits that allow the destruction of habitat elsewhere. Go to story #2