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 ...

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 ...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling will impact how the EPA protects certain wetlands. Critics say that decision will strip protections from tens of millions of acres across the nation.

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 the ...

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 ...

Thousands of acres of wetlands in northeastern Minnesota are in danger, and only the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can save them. These two ...

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 ...

At stake are thousands of acres of irreplaceable bogs and forested wetlands that will be destroyed in Northeast Minnesota as new mines are developed there.

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.

Instead, they dug a trench nearly three-quarters of a mile long in the fields and through a cattail marsh in southwest Minnesota, work authorities say violated wetlands protection laws.