From the heart of the Prairie Pothole Region, writers Chuck Clayton and Jim Madsen, of the Izaak Walton League warn: ‘Be wary of ag wetland mitigation banks.’  In response to a much-publicized recent release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s $9 million grant program for the development of agricultural mitigation banks, Clayton and Madsen share that while they favor increased conservation on farms, they have serious concern that wetland mitigation projects are challenging by their nature and that this specific program relies wholly on taxpayer dollars to provide incentives for conservation outcomes.  >Read Letter to the Argus Leader via http://www.argusleader.com/story/opinion/voices/2016/02/10/letter-wary-ag-wetland-mitigation-banks/80190784/