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- Chris from NewsLook
- February 11, 2012
- 8:30 am
- 75 comments
Dale Aden is a third-generation farmer in the Midwestern US state of Minnesota. For years, he watched the Okabena Creek flood and destroy his crops and farmland. After the losses took their toll, Aden decided to return the land to wildlife. He participated in a conservation program called Reinvest in Minnesota. The program pays farmers to sell their marginal land, and return it to its natural state. Now much of Dale Aden’s farmland has become wetland, full of wildlife.
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Chris from NewsLook
Chris is the Managing Editor at NewsLook, an interactive news service providing premium video content from more than 50 international sources.
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This sounds like me!
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+ add your ownDale Aden is one in a million. Great idea and I wish other states had a program like that. Thanks Chris for posting this.
Perhaps it is not too late. Humans may still have a touch of kindness left in them.
Good job, Dale. Returning part of your farmland to nature has to feel really rewarding!!
Wonderful!
i wonder if they will do that here. I mean. we grow corn for humans. so what if people want "Jersey fresh corn". you just poop out corn anyway. and they built a church of all things almost right on top of protected wild life land.
how stupid.
So great when people get so involved!!!! :)
Very cool!
Great news and very sensible.
thank u!
YAY It's about time humans got the picture!!!
Mother Nature doesn't give in. NOR should she.
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