Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District

The Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District is a fourteen-county district located in east central Minnesota, United States. It includes portions of the Minnesota, Cannon, and Mississippi River watersheds. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service works to protect the area's natural landscape through private lands habitat restorations, acquisition of waterfowl production areas (WPAs), and management of FmHA conservation easements. Since 1990, the Service has acquired 4255 acre of WPAs and approximately 1,898 acre. Private land restoration projects total 7011 acre of wetland in 1,227 basins and 4849 acre of native prairie on 223 sites.