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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has completed a 10-year effort to provide much more accurate maps of Minnesota’s wetlands. The update of the state’s National Wetlands Inventory ...
Joseph Dames found out what that means for Minnesota's wetlands, and where the impact will be felt the most. "Water doesn't really have a clear boundary," said wetland ecologist Dr. Sue Galatowitsch.
Since Europeans began settling in Minnesota, about half of the state's wetlands have disappeared. But in recent years, the state has stopped the loss and actually gained a few acres, according to ...
The reports said 80 percent of the state's other wetlands — in heavily agricultural and more populated parts of central, southern and western Minnesota — aren't faring nearly as well.
Minnesota conservation and regulatory leaders have fretted for years over the state's loss of wetlands. Far from stemming the tide, however, they didn't even know how many wetlands are left in the ...
Up to 7,694 acres of wetlands located in a region that supports the highest quality, diverse wetlands in Minnesota. 960 acres will be directly destroyed by PolyMet (in itself a huge loss), an ...
ST. PAUL — Minnesota saw a net gain of about 43,000 acres of wetlands between 2006 and 2020, but it’s mostly because there was more climate-change-driven precipitation that filled previously ...
Most people are not aware that proposed revisions to the state’s Wetlands Conservation Act, as outlined in SF 1515, will greatly endanger wetlands that are already at risk in Minnesota. The ...
This map shows an estimate of the net conversion to or from cropland from 2008 to 2012. Most of the land conversion that happened in Minnesota during that time went from non-cropland to cropland.
Minnesota's wetlands are healthy overall but are suffering in agricultural and populated areas, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said in a pair of reports released Thursday just ahead of th.
The reports said 80 percent of the state’s other wetlands — in heavily agricultural and more populated parts of central, southern and western Minnesota — aren’t faring nearly as well.
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