Hey Angela (Southern greeting),

Providing habitat is a great thing. And, it can be a pain to get
organized and authorized.

You will face the usual questions about your site and a pond.

Your deq or some such can tell you about whether your land will hold
water or will have it drain out.

Then you need to think about the rate at which you have water to
drain. How steady? What will evaporation do? Will it still
overflow? How about critters and skeeters?

If you have a neighbor with a pond or, better, a bog such as yours
would be, that would be great.

Please keep us posted as you work through the process.

Jim