Wetlands filling up northeast Wisconsin

Once used for hunting and gathering, northeast Wisconsin wetlands are slowly making a comeback.  Believe it or not, restoring Green Bay's native wetlands can impact the environment in more ways than one.

 

Many people don't know that wetlands provide many ecological benefits, such as habitats for fish and wildlife. But they're also important for improving water quality.

 

"Wetlands are natural filters. The water that runs off the fields comes into them, they filter out the sediments and nutrients, things like that so that.  These don't get into our rivers and our lakes," said Gary Van Vreede, a local Wildlife Biologist.

 

Nearly 90 percent of wetlands in northeast Wisconsin have been drained for agricultural production. Now, experts are working to restore a number of them in this area....