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The Wetlands Initiative worked with the Friends of the Big Bureau Creek Watershed, a coalition for clean water, to hold a free producer workshop on March 2nd in Princeton, Illinois, on the economics of land stewardship and nutrient management practices.

After three years of intensive restoration work, the Wetlands Initiative's Grant Creek Restoration Project at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County will be drawing to a close this summer.

The Wetlands Initiative has completed the second phase of a new boardwalk trail to increase public access at the Dixon Waterfowl Refuge at Hennepin & Hopper Lakes.

The Wetlands Initiative is poised to add an urban wetland restoration to its portfolio, through a new project in partnership with the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.

Hennepin & Hopper Lakes will continue to be closed to all public sport fishing in 2012, while the Wetlands Initiative and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) launch a renewed effort to remove invasive common carp from the lakes.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has designated the Wetlands Initiative's Sue and Wes Dixon Waterfowl Refuge at Hennepin & Hopper Lakes a Wetland of International Importance, in accordance with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

More wetlands in more places for more benefits for more people and wildlife. That's the goal of the Wetlands Initiative's effort to expand its project portfolio during 2012.

The Wetlands Initiative has been part of creating a new 10-year plan for restoration at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, which the National Forest Foundation unveiled in October.

The U.S. Forest Service and the Wetlands Initiative have committed to partner to restore 160 acres of former industrial land to native prairie and wetlands at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, to begin in summer 2012.