Due to their geographic position between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and periodic fluvial disturbances floodplain wetlands act as sinks for sediment, transformers of inorganic nutrients, and sources of slow-release water and organic material to aquatic systems during flooding events. For these and other ecosystem services (e.g., increasing biodiversity), the United States Department of Agriculture, has established a Kentucky Wetland Reserve Program; lands in western Kentucky are being placed into easements and restored to floodplain wetland features, in part, to help minimize downstream effects in the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico. The objective of this study is to compare the services provided by the WRP wetlands (15 years old wetlands and 5 to 10 years old wetlands) to reference standard forested wetlands in the area. Most specifically we are (1) looking for differences in sedimentation rates, and (2) identifying the possible causes of those differences, such as hydrologic regime shifts and vegetative structural differences. This project is the first step towards the long-term goal of understanding the regional impacts of wetland restoration efforts in the Mississippi River Basin. Further, future work will evaluate the effect of differences in sedimentation rates on other ecosystem services these systems are expected to support (e.g., carbon storage, nitrogen removal, phosphorus retention).