Overpopulation killing precious wetlands.
I was reading the Outdoors Weekly, an outdoors magazine, and discovered this intersting article on how the Minnesota's fast growing urban population is destroying valuable wetlands more and more every year. It not only touches on how our animal's homes are being destroyed but the overall quality of life here in Minnesota. Years ago people thought of Minnesota as being one of the few regions in the nation where you could visit pristine wilderness and lakes. Nowadays these acres are being covered with tar and asphalt from the growing population. A study was done and according to an outdoors group more than a million acres of the state will be converted to buildings, lawns and parking lots in the next 25 years. Also, the states propotional spending on conservation has decreased every year!http://outdoorsweekly.com/index.html
posted by Anonymous @ 3/05/2006 01:42:00 PM
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A few years back a large area of wetlands near my house was cleared for residential development. There wasn't much wildlife, but it shows what we see happening throught our world everyday. I think the fact that a million acres of the state will be converted to buildings over the next 25 years because this is a huge loss to wildlife. Just look alone in Sartell at all the buildings and houses that are put up in wetland. I feel though for Sartell that using this wetland and housing is for good purposes. Just our own backyard though is an example of what is happening all over our state and world.
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