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USDA in new projects to help restore wetlands function

The USDA is investing nearly $30-Million-dollars for six new and four ongoing projects to enhance wetland functions in agricultural lands.

Partners in the projects are investing nearly three-million-dollars.

They include more acres in the Iowa Skunk River project for habitat restoration.

Four-hundred-50 more acres in the Nebraska Playa Wetlands project to improve water quality and quantity and wildlife habitat.

Nine-thousand more acres in the Lower Mississippi River project helping farmers remove frequently flooded lands from production, eliminating expenses and subsidies that come with farming that land.

Two-thousand more acres in the Tri State project for restoring forested wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Twenty-five-hundred acres over the next three years to improve wildlife habitat in the Bayou du Chien (Kentucky) in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

The acting chief of NRCS says the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership helps boost the benefits of wetlands through cleaner water, flood prevention, wildlife habitat and carbon sequestration.

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