The Minnesota Valley Wetland Management District is a fourteen-county district located in east central Minnesota, United States. It includes portions of the Minnesota, Cannon, and Mississippi River watersheds. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service works to protect the area's natural landscape through private lands habitat restorations, acquisition of waterfowl production areas (WPAs), and management of FmHA conservation easements. Since 1990, the Service has acquired 4255acres of WPAs and approximately 1898adj=preNaNadj=pre. Private land restoration projects total 7011acres of wetland in 1,227 basins and 4849acres of native prairie on 223 sites.