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A large wetland in western Minnesota.. Over the past 200 years, the United States has lost more than 50% of its wetlands. [1] And even with the current focus on wetland conservation, the US is losing about 60,000 acres (240 km 2) of wetlands per year (as of 2004). [2]
The 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a 2-million-acre (8,100 km 2) national program (with an enrollment limit of 100,000 acres (400 km 2) per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from 5 acres (20,000 m 2) to 10 acres (40,000 m 2). [2]
In 2008, data covering 66,200,000 acres (268,000 km 2) were added to the Wetlands Geodatabase. These included 28,100,000 acres (114,000 km 2) of updated wetland map information, new data for 6,800,000 acres (28,000 km 2) not previously available and 31,300,000 acres (127,000 km 2) of data that were captured in digital format. An additional ...
A wetland must be flooded seasonally: 63 to 66% lose protection, ranging from 2.3 to 2.4 million acres. Wetlands must flood seasonally and always have saturated soils: 87 to 88% lose protection ...
From 2017 to 2022, the average value per acre of all American farmland grew from $4,368 to $5,354, an increase of nearly 23%. As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out ...
Since the 18th century, wetland area has decreased from nearly 220 million acres (890,000 km 2) in the lower 48 states to 107.7 million acres (436,000 km 2) in 2004. [4] Since the 1950s, over fifty percent of this loss has come from wetlands being transitioned to agricultural lands. [ 5 ]
The functions of the bank or the acres that have been restored within its "service area" (its geographical location) are quantified to determine the value of the credits sold by the bank. [ 8 ] Where a wetland is described as "manipulated", this might mean that it has been drained, dredged , filled, levelled, or altered in some other way to ...
1 Wetland functions and value. ... NOAA and partners have begun construction on one of the largest habitat restoration efforts to date in a 1,200 acre marsh in hopes ...