Minnesota River Interviews - Del & Shirley Wehrspann

"Here's a wetland that [the county] planned to be drained because it had no significant value... but look what is here now: geese...bicycle path... motel. This is what they could not see."

Video Text: "Here is a wetland that that was planned to be drained because the county owned it and because it had no significant value as a wetland. It wouldn’t grow good corn and you couldn’t build a house on it.  But look what’s here, look at the geese on the wetland, look at that big motel on the other side of the wetland, overlooking the wetland, look at the bicycle trail along the wetland. This is what they could not see."

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