Industrial agriculture degrades and destroys wetlands. Changes to the Clean Water Act in 2023 rolled back federal wetland protections, further increasing risks from corporate agribusiness. Wetlands ...

Roy noted that their farm is relatively small — which makes balancing agricultural production and wetlands protection less fraught than elsewhere in the Midwest, where regulating an industry ...

Big Marsh Park, shown on Dec ... on their properties and converting cropland back into wetlands. These programs also encourage adopting agricultural conservation practices like planting cover ...

The Long Valley Nature Park is part of the Long Valley freshwater wetlands, the largest man ... a senior nature park officer at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, said the ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 2020, the Conservation Reserve Program had restored more than 3 million wetland acres across the country since the program started in 1985.

Thirty million acres of unprotected wetlands across the Upper Midwest, including 1 million acres in Illinois, are at risk of being destroyed largely by industrial agriculture — wetlands that provide ...