Study: Minn. converted more wetlands than any other state when crop prices spiked

This map by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers represents the amount of new cropland expansion as compared to existing cropland in 2008. Areas in red are hot spots where the amount of cropland more than doubled between 2008 and 2012.
Courtesy of Tyler Lark
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