How can nutrient farming have a meaningful impact on water quality in the entire Upper Midwest and beyond?
Many environmental problems in the Midwest —diminished water quality, flood damage, and reduced biodiversity and wildlife habitat—are attributable to the wholesale loss of millions of acres of wetlands over the past 20 years. We believe that if many of these lost wetlands can be restored, these problems can be successfully addressed. But the big, unanswered question in the wetland restoration equation has always been, “How do we pay for it?” To answer that question, TWI developed the strategy of “nutrient farming,” believing that if landowners could be compensated for harvesting nutrients from water flows that enter restored wetlands, then large-scale wetland restoration would follow.
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