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<br /> SUNDAY/January3/1993 NEWSPAPER OF THE TWIN CITIES
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<br /> As suburbs in the Twin Cities area --i:4° l`''7. ° �Y
<br /> continue to expand, vital wetlands ,t,,; •to• !� t,<, '-
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<br /> are being whittled away; no one is <<.4 f�. •, r'j'1','•.. !,t;
<br /> sure exactly how many wetland - - -
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<br /> questionable in their effectiveness. DNR's Cathy Brehm at a housing development site in Ramsey that was a wetlands area.
<br /> By Mike Kaszuba to golf courses and shopping cen- land acres has created a classic con- ects continue to whittle away siz-
<br /> and N9rman Draper ters.And while state and federal (list of growth vs. preservation. able chunks of wetlands.
<br /> Staff Writers wetlands policy is aimed at"no net About 270,000 acres in the seven-
<br /> loss"of wetlands, that goal clearly county Twin Cities area,one in Projects such as Interstate Hwy.
<br /> Hundreds of acres of wetlands in has yet to be achieved. In fact, every seven acres,are defined as 394,the Mystic Lake Casino in Pri-
<br /> the Twin Cities area have been lost regulators don't even know how wetlands. or Lake and the National Sports
<br /> to suburban development since the much wetland has been lost. Center in Blaine have been built,at
<br /> late 1980s,despite increasingly A review by the Star Tribune of least in part,on filled wetlands.
<br /> tough state and federal measures Much of the loss is attributable to more than 600 wetland permits is- .
<br /> meant to protect them. the expanding suburban sprawl of sued in the Twin Cities area since Wetlands are often lost on more
<br /> the Twin Cities, in which rapid 1988,along with scores of inter- dubious projects.A federal wetland
<br /> • :'Wetlands have been filled for ev- growth across a landscape speckled views with developers and regula-
<br /> erything from homes and highways with hundreds of thousands of wet- tors,show that development proj- Wetlands continued on page 12A
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