Chad and Jennifer Kunz took over their family property in central North Dakota in 2014, and found that a lot of its potential wetland habitat had been altered by decades of agricultural drainage. The couple decided to restore the land rather than continue trying to farm every acre, and by the time the US Fish and Wildlife Service documented their work, 83 acres of drained wetlands had been restored, and the couple had begun seeing pelicans, ducks, pollinators and other wildlife on the property.
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