BASCOM, Ohio — Sixteen more acres of wetlands have been added to the growing list of thousands that the state of Ohio has paid to build or expand across northwest Ohio since 2019.
The conservation efforts have come in response to Toledo’s algae-driven water crisis in 2014, and are being done to improve water quality throughout the Lake Erie watershed.
At an event on Thursday, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Heidelberg College marked the completion of a 16-acre wetland complex at the 47-acre Funk-Dewald Nature Preserve…