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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. -- Research at the University of Minnesota-Crookston could improve the safety of the human food chain. Katy Smith, a professor at the school, is studying the impact of wetland ...

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 th.