AR-News: (US DC) Returning Farmland to Wetlands

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Agriculture Dept. Aims to Ease Flooding, Benefit  Wildlife  
washingtonpost.com 
By Eric Olson

Tuesday, July 6,  2004  
<NITF>UNION, Neb. -- Persistent flooding of their corn and soybean fields led 
 Robert and Verneel Noerrlinger to return 535 acres to wetlands. The U.S.  
Department of Agriculture is urging other landowners along the Missouri River in 
 Nebraska to consider doing the  
Last week, the Noerrlingers' property was the site chosen by the USDA to  
announce a project that makes $26 million available through 2007 to restore  
18,200 acres of wetlands along the river from Ponca to Rulo, about 200 miles  
running the entire length of the state.  
<NITF>The Lower Missouri River Wetland Reserve Enhancement Program is the  
first of its kind approved by the Agriculture Depar  
<NITF>"This partnership brings federal, state and local resources together to 
 restore wetlands, provide habitat for wildlife and improve water quality,"  
Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman said in a stat  
full  story:
_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29591-2004Jul5.html_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29591-2004Jul5.html)  



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