10 questions partially answered

The ten questions I came up with are:
1. Before our neighborhood was built it was all family farm land, why when builders create subdivisions do they trash the rich soil and bring in sand?
2. Since there is "wet lands" behind my across the street neighbors home, how come the only thing I see growing is tall grass (over seven feet tall).

 Unbeknown to me there is actually marshy plants growing in other areas of the wetlands, the grass which is supposed to be harvested for hay just grows with or without water and since we are in a drought it is the only thing growing well.

3. Therefore, what constitutes it as wetlands?

But this statute defines“coastal wetlands” as “marshland,” a much narrower classification than in the federal definitions of“wetlands.” The statute considers as “coastal wetlands” any salt marsh or other marsh subject to regular or occasional flooding by tides, including wind tides (whether or not the tidewaters reach the marshland areas through natural or artificial watercourses), provided this shall not include hurricane or tropical storm tides. Salt marshland or other marsh shall be those areas upon which grow some, but not necessarily all, of the following salt marsh and marsh plant species: Smooth or salt water Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), Black Needlerush (Juncus roemerianus), Glasswort (Salicornia spp.), Salt Grass (Distichlis spicata), Sea Lavender (Limonium spp.), Bulrush (Scirpus spp.), Saw Grass (Cladium jamaicense), Cattail (Typha spp.), Salt-Meadow Grass (Spartina patens), and Salt Reed-Grass (Spartina cynosuroides).

G.S. 113-229(n)(3).

In 1996 the legislature also created the nonregulatory North Carolina Wetlands Restoration Program (NCWRP) specifically for the restoration of wetlands and stream corridors.20 From 1996 to 1998 the Wetlands Restoration Program prioritized the state’s river basins and sub-basins and is charged with using appropriated funds and funds received from wetlands mitigation requirements to attempt to reestablish critical wetlands.

In 1996 DENR promulgated rules for its review of projects affecting wetlands. These rules were based on general legal authority: G.S.143-214.1, directing and empowering the Environmental Management Commission (EMC) to classify and apply standards to state waters; G.S. 143-215.1, requiring permits for sources of water pollution; and G.S. 143-215.3, the general rulemaking power of the EMC to implement articles of the General Statutes regulating air and water quality. However, a great deal of disagreement about the adequacy of DENR’s legal basis for these rules remains. How this disagreement is resolved has become increasingly important since 1996 due to successful attacks on the federal wetlands regulatory program.21

4. What kind of animals are in my immediate area, I know there are many hybrids, for example wolf-coyote, are they my only "dangers".

Bobcats, Black bears, Deer, Foxes, Coyotes, Snakes, Birds of Prey, and many other critters!

5. I have this strange spider at my house, it looks like a small tarantula, he is furry but the size of a nickel, I noticed he eats other spiders, what is he?

Daring Jumping Spider

6. What are these nasty yellow flowering weeds that smell like turnips and why does everyone have them in their yard? (picture will come later)

7. How many inches are rain are needed to properly sustain life here, for example maintain creek levels for fish and animals, maintain vegetative growth for food and beauty, and keep shade?

8 . Where does the skink that frequents my garden reside daily?

 He actually lives in the plant and under stuff around my gardens, he is a five lined skink

9. Why is poison ivy so difficult to kill?

Poison Ivy round up is amazing stuff, lol.

10. How do yard chemicals affect our high water table?