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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
This 1,348-acre (5.46 km 2) area includes an ancient oxbow lake (Cooley Lake), which was once the main channel of the Missouri River, and also wetlands, croplands, and a forested bluff. The area also has access to the Missouri River. Facilities/features: Disabled acce : 1,337 acres 541 ha: Clay
Missouri Department of Conservation. 2007-01-01. [permanent dead link ] "Google Earth File". Conservation Atlas Online. Missouri Department of Conservation. 2007-06-18. Archived from the original on 2010-08-12.
The Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program (EWRP), authorized in 1993 under emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to widespread floods in the Midwest, provided payments to purchase easements and partial financial assistance to landowners who permanently restored wetlands at sites where the restoration costs exceeded the land’s fair market value.
Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a 10,795-acre (43.69 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge established in 1937 and located in Chariton County, Missouri, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the town of Sumner. It is located near the confluence of the Grand and Missouri Rivers .
The program reached its authorized enrollment ceiling of 1,075,000 acres (4,350 km 2) before the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171) was acted upon. The 2002 legislation reauthorized the program with mandatory funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) through FY2007, and set a maximum enrollment ceiling of 2.275 million acres (and with an ...
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The land which was originally wetlands used by migratory foul had earlier been used as a private hunting preserve. [3]In 1906 the Squaw Creek Drainage District No. 1 after much litigation using the contactors Rogers & Rogers completed ditches to drain nearly 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land into the Missouri River in a massive project in which more than 500,000 cubic yards of earth were moved ...