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Is there a future for Iowa wetlands?
According to Iowa State University, wetlands covered 25 percent of Iowa until 95 percent of the 4-6 million acres were drained for agriculture. Today, only 1.2 percent of the state’s surface area can be called a wetland.
A wetland featured by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2022 when it announced a $5 Million Wetland Mitigation Banking Program. In …
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