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This area consists of restored wetlands, bottomland forest and swamp communities. Wetlands were restored through the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) in cooperation with the Natural Resources : 6,322 2,558: Stoddard, Bollinger, Wayne
Wetland complex, south side of Chase Lake Prairie Project headquarters. The project is an effort to ensure future protection of the region, whereby ranchers and farmers agree to utilize native grasses when planting, rotate cattle regularly to prevent overgrazing, restore wetland environments that have been drained and prevent over hunting and predation from mammals such as the coyote and fox.
The Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) funds landowners that volunteer their land for wetland development and provides opportunities for landowners participate in the maintenance of the project. The land must meet specific requirement to receive funding and the program is set up for each state in the United States.
Monkey Mountain Conservation Area: This area has 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of mostly forested bluffs above the Missouri River and 780 acres (3.2 km 2) of Missouri River floodplain. This area also has stream frontage along the Missouri and Nodaway Rivers. 1,624 acres 657 ha: Holt
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) administers hundreds of parcels of land in all counties of the state. Most areas are owned by the department; some are leased by the department; some areas are managed under contract by the department; and some areas are leased to other entities for management.
Wetlands save Wisconsin and the upper Midwest almost $23 billion per year that would otherwise be spent combating flooding, a new report has found. And that comes as the loss of wetlands has ...
Map of Missouri conservation areas with the Northeast region highlighted. The Northeast administrative region of the Missouri Department of Conservation encompasses Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Macon, Marion, Monroe, Pike, Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, and Sullivan counties. The regional conservation office is in Kirksville.
Compensatory mitigation includes measures to restore, create, enhance, and preserve wetlands to offset unavoidable adverse impacts. [12] It is a form of environmental mitigation and can include both on-site (on or adjacent to the site of impacts) and off-site mitigation.