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Author: Madeline Heim and Caitlin Looby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Framing wetlands as a flooding solution won bipartisan support in Wisconsin. Could it work elsewhere?

April 14, 2025 Updated April 14, 2025
Communities across the state are testing the economic value of grant programs to build new wetlands that reduce flooding risk. In the upper Midwest, researchers found that wetlands save nearly $23 billion a year that would otherwise be spent combating floods.

Could a federal funding program that helped clean up the Great Lakes work for the Mississippi River too?

July 27, 2022 Updated July 27, 2022
Mississippi River watershed communities like Bay City, Wisconsin are feeling the effects of environmental degradation. Advocates hope a proposed federal funding program, based on a successful initiative in the Great Lakes, could change this.

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