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The Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District is a fourteen-county district located in east ... (28.37 km 2) of wetland in 1,227 basins and 4,849 acres (19.62 ...
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 ...
Litchfield Wetland Management District is located on the eastern edge of the Prairie Pothole Region in central Minnesota. More than 33,000 acres (130 km 2 ) of United States Fish and Wildlife Service -owned land and 8,000 acres (32 km 2 ) of wetland easements provide marsh , prairie , transition, and woodland habitats.
Minnesota ecoregions map prepared in 2007 by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The list of ecoregions in Minnesota provides an overview to the ecoregions (see also, ecosystem) in the U.S. state of Minnesota, [1] as defined separately by the Environmental Protection Agency/Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the World ...
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 Windom Wetland Management District also manages the first fee title tract of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge. Touch the Sky Prairie is a nearly 800-acre (320 ha) unit of the refuge dedicated to helping preserve native tallgrass prairie. Less than one-tenth of one percent of the original Tallgrass Prairie remains.
The Northern Minnesota Wetlands ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in northern Minnesota [1] in the United States. Designated as ecoregion number 49, the ecoregion is sparsely populated and generally features conifer bog , mixed forest, and boreal forest vegetation.
Thirty-nine perpetual wildlife habitat easements covering 4,185 acres (16.94 km 2) of wetland and grassland habitats on private land have also been obtained. In addition the District manages the Prairie Wetlands Learning Center which has innovative environmental education programs and a wide array of visitor opportunities all focused on ...