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Wetland loss continues to grow at an alarming rate and Ducks Unlimited Canada says compensating farmers for environmental services could slow and even reverse that trend.
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Compensate farmers for environmental good: Ducks Unlimited

The conservation group has told the Senate agriculture committee protecting wetlands requires funding

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The next Agriculture Policy Framework needs to compensate farmers and landowners who embrace environmentally sustainable land management, Ducks Unlimited Canada has told the Senate agriculture committee. Otherwise the alarming loss of wetlands and other critical wildlife habitat will continue its upward spiral, Scott Stephens, DUC’s director of regional operations for the Prairie region told the
Wetland undergoing restoration to retain additional water in the basin.
Livestock, Local news

Wetland restoration relies on farmer participation

MHHC is seeking more landowners interested in wetland restoration on their property, 
something that can benefit them and those downstream

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A Deloraine-area wetland restoration project is showing how farmers can work with habitat organizations to alleviate downstream flooding, while retaining water for their own use. The Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation project, on properties owned by Gord Weidenhamer and Glenn Scott, is restoring a 32-acre wetland that was drained years ago by previous owners. Weidenhamer said
Big Grass Marsh near Gladstone is essential habitat for waterfowl and wildlife while filtering pollutants from water entering the Lake Winnipeg watershed. In the late 1930s it became the first conservation program of Ducks Unlimited Canada.
Local news

Illegal trench now repaired at Big Grass Marsh

The job ahead — finding a way to reduce flooding in the area — will be more complicated

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An illegal trench dug at Big Grass Marsh before freeze-up last fall is fixed, with the province, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and Whitemud Watershed Conservation District (WWCD) picking up the tab. Work crews hauled clay and rock to the site of the Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) dam north of Gladstone in early February and filled
After a decade of experimentation with equipment and processes, cattail harvesting is poised to move beyond the pilot project stage.
Local news

Cattail harvesting shows promise to aid province’s water woes

The cattail-harvesting project taking place at Pelly’s Lake sees progress in extracting overloaded nutrients and processing 
the biomass crop

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Ten years after a research team first considered harvesting cattails in Manitoba, one of the lead researchers remains as enthusiastic as ever about its environmental and economic potential. “Essentially, we have been working on this for the past 10 years. When we set out it was a small project looking at how cattails and reeds
The size of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone in 2011. The coloured gradients indicate the oxygen levels that present in the water at that recorded time.
Comment, Crops

Fertilizer run-off is just one piece of the dead zone puzzle

More perennial crops and protecting wetlands would help reduce 
the low-to-no-oxygen zone in the Gulf of Mexico

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It’s true that fertilizer run-off, sewage, and other pollutants from the Corn Belt have significantly boosted dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico. That’s because up to half of the fertilizer applied isn’t absorbed by crops, and in order to grow more food we’re using 20 times more fertilizer in the Corn Belt today than
La Salle Redboine Conservation District manager Justin Reid spoke to municipal and conservation officials during the latest phase of the large-scale water-retention project south of Holland last week.
Local news

Pelly’s Lake watershed management project complete

Officials visit site to see the gates opened on the now complete Pelly’s Lake Watershed Management Project

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Conservation and municipal officials opened the gates here June 16 to release water that had been held back through the spring as part of a water control project expected to bring multiple benefits to the area. The June opening of the gates on the Pelly’s Lake dam built last year is the latest phase of
retired dairy farmer Gord Hammell
Country Crossroads

Retirement project reinforces need for conserving natural land

Retired dairy farmer Gord Hammell is redoing a breeding bird survey he did in the 1970s, 
documenting changes to local land, water and wildlife

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Gord Hammell came to Manitoba over 40 years ago to count ducks, and after a long interval milking cows, he’s counting again. The University of Guelph science student arrived in 1970 to do summer research for his master’s thesis on lesser scaup, a waterfowl also called “little bluebill” whose numbers have long been in decline.
wetland marsh
Local news

Wetland count begins in southwestern Manitoba

Project will reveal distribution and interaction of wetlands in agro-Manitoba

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Water and land managers will soon have a precise picture of the state of wetlands in southwestern Manitoba as staff with the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corp. begin a mapping and classification project this spring. Wetlands as small as a quarter of an acre will be included in the study designed to help farmers and drainage
Opinion

Difficult questions

The short-term questions arising from what is shaping up to be another billion-dollar-plus flood for the province are clear, although they may not be easily answered. How do you care for livestock that has no pasture and for which there is vastly reduced prospects for winter feed? Or how to get people back into their

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