ABSTRACT
After more than three decades of advocacy, what had long been a severely degraded landscape, the Las Vegas Wash, has been changed into something truly extraordinary: the Clark County Wetlands Park (see also chapter 3). The process and the ensuring products of this particular project represent the most successful and impressive restoration of a desert wetland that has been accomplished, a signature undertaking that offers lessons for not only the situation of the Iraqi marshlands, but also publicly supported environmental restoration projects of any type, anywhere in the world.
