As Minnesota’s 2015 waterfowl hunting season began Saturday, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is releasing two reports on the health of wetlands around the state. The health of a wetland ...

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.

The overall number is holding steady. Between 2007 and 2012 the number of wetlands — which includes marshes, bogs and potholes — remained largely unchanged, and total about 15,625 square miles ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1991, Minnesota enacted the Wetland Conservation requiring no net loss of wetlands. The law requires landowners to make up for draining or filling wetlands by creating or restoring wetlands ...

Concerns that a proposed St. Paul chiller plant would harm an adjacent wetland restoration project have been addressed by a new University proposal.The centralized chiller plant will still be constru ...

Invasive shrubs, such as buckthorn and Japanese barberry, can also contribute to human health impacts. Invasive shrubs create ...

For every acre of wetland being restored in Minnesota, more are being lost. A 2024 U.S. Department of Agriculture study found that eight of the top 10 U.S. counties where tile drainage was growing ...

Findings recently published in Plant Disease show that Puccinia coronata var. coronata, or Pcc—a non-native rust fungus recently reported in North America—could be beneficial in managing ...

T he Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced that it had acquired 25 acres of wetland in Cook County that it is designating as Minnesota's newest Scientific and Natural Area (SNA).