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Hypoxia solution through wetland restoration in America's breadbasket: a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico caused by pollution emanating from 40 percent of the lower 48 United States, has recently caught the nation's attention
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Hypoxia solution through wetland restoration in America's breadbasket: a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico caused by pollution emanating from 40 percent of the lower 48 United States, has recently caught the nation's attention

William J Mitsch
National wetlands newsletter, Vol.21(6), pp.9-10
12-01-1999

Abstract

Conservation Environmental conditions Environmental policy Gulf of Mexico Midwestern states United States Water pollution Wetlands
Discusses area located west of where the Mississippi River discharges into the Gulf in which aquatic species cannot survive due to low dissolved oxygen conditions; calls for restoration of wetlands and riparian buffers in Midwestern states. Summarizes scientific report commissioned by the federal government.

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