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The Fergus Falls Wetland Management District is a protected area in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was established in 1962 with the initiation of the Accelerated Small Wetlands Acquisition Program. It is located in west central Minnesota and includes the counties of Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Wadena and Wilkin.
"No Net loss" is the United States government's overall policy goal regarding wetlands preservation. The goal of the policy is to balance wetland loss due to economic development with wetlands reclamation, mitigation, and restorations efforts, so that the total acreage of wetlands in the country does not decrease, but remains constant or increases.
Deteriorating drainage tile systems and the abundance of historic wetland basins provide unlimited opportunities for wetland restorations. Heron Lake in Jackson County is a 6,400-acre (2,600 ha), shallow, prairie lake suffering from over-enrichment due to agricultural run-off; high populations of rough fish ; and loss of aquatic vegetation; all ...
"No net loss" is defined by the International Finance Corporation as "the point at which the project-related impacts on biodiversity are balanced by measures taken to avoid and minimize the project's impacts, to understand on site restoration and finally to offset significant residual impacts, if any, on an appropriate geographic scale (e.g local, landscape-level, national, regional)."
A large wetland in western Minnesota.. Over the past 200 years, the United States has lost more than 50% of its wetlands. [1] And even with the current focus on wetland conservation, the US is losing about 60,000 acres (240 km 2) of wetlands per year (as of 2004). [2]
Dozens of central and southern Minnesota counties are at higher risk of fire this weekend due to windy and dry conditions. According to a National Weather Service warning issued Saturday, 41 ...
The Morris Wetland Management District includes 244 waterfowl production areas, encompassing over 50,000 acres (200 km 2) scattered throughout an eight-county area.Like other wetland management districts in the prairie states, the goal of the Morris District is to restore and protect sufficient wetland and grassland habitat to meet the needs of prairie wildlife, particularly breeding waterfowl ...
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