More than 40 acres of former farmland northwest of Portage will be restored to wetland next year, the first Columbia County property to join the state’s Wetland Mitigation Program.

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WeatherWatch 12 meteorologist Chris Gloninger reports on volunteers in Ozaukee County working to plant native plants to save southeast Wisconsin wetlands.