EXISTING WETLANDS OF MINNESOTA 



45 











LEGEND 



Available peats (5.2 million acres) 



Available poorly drained mineral soils 

 (3.5 million acres) 



Other soils, drained lands and pre- 

 empting land uses (42.7 million acres) 



I I Water (2.9 million 



acres) 



Fig. 41. Present extent and distribution of Minnesota's wetlands (University of Minnesota 1981). Nine million acres of poorly drained soils- 

 pothole wetlands— have been converted to agriculture. 



