The states that border the Mississippi River have lost at least half of the wetlands they once had, including Wisconsin.

The report found that birds that rely on wetlands and grasslands are the most in danger. Grassland birds are in steep decline, losing more than 50% of their populations in the last 50 years. And one ...

From the floodplain forests of the upper Mississippi River to the long coast of Lake Michigan, Wisconsin is rich in wetlands.

The love of birds, for sport and food, has been the saving grace of the swamps, marshes and shallow lakes along the ...

Throughout the Mississippi River watershed, wetlands store floodwater, improve drinking water quality, and serve as homes for millions of birds and other animals. But this special ecosystem is ...

Flanked by farm equipment and a large American flag ... and the people, animals, and ecosystems that rely on it. Wetlands are places where land and water meet, and the Mississippi River Basin ...

A longtime provision of federal law called Swampbuster, which has protected millions of acres of wetland from being farmed, ...

Hundreds of bird species use these wetlands as habitat during migration ... Madeline Heim is a Report for America corps reporter who writes about environmental issues in the Mississippi River ...

Flanked by farm equipment and a large American flag ... and the people, animals, and ecosystems that rely on it. Wetlands are places where land and water meet. In a wetland, water covers ...