| The Wetlands Reserve Program is a voluntary program
offering landowners the opportunity to protect, restore, and enhance
wetlands on their property. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS) provides technical and financial support to help
landowners with their wetland restoration efforts. The NRCS goal is to
achieve the greatest wetland functions and values, along with optimum
wildlife habitat, on every acre enrolled in the program. This program
offers landowners an opportunity to establish long-term conservation and
wildlife practices and protection. Dan Braden, NRCS Civil
Engineering Technician, from Lima, Ohio, who designed the Putnam
Wetlands said the following:
"I am sure that this project will touch many people in
the name of Wetlands Restoration and the need to preserve/restore them.
There are untold benefits from this type of project. Water quality
(sometimes a least recognized but important environmental lift) will
improve as these wetlands will serve as 'Mother Nature's Kidneys'. I
can't wait to witness the diversity that will result with wildlife
populations also."
The Plan View of the Putnam Wetlands project.
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Aerial picture taken during construction on November
14, 2007. The Putnam Wetlands are outlined in red.
Satellite photo of property prior to the beginning of
the wetlands development.
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