Losses

	Acres in 1780s	Acres in 1980s	% Loss of Wetland Area
California	5,000,000	454,000	91
Ohio	5,000,000	482,800	90
Iowa	4,000,000	421,900	89
Indiana	5,600,000	750,633	87
Missouri	4,844,000	643,000	87
Illiniois	8,212,000	1,254,500	85
Kentucky	1,566,000	300,000	81
Connecticut	670,000	172,500	74
Maryland	1,650,000	440,000	73
Arkansas	9,848,600	2,763,600	72
Oklahoma	2,842,600	949,700	67
New York	2,562,000	1,025,000	60
Mississippi	9,872,000	4,067,000	59
Tennessee	1,937,000	787,000	59
Idaho	877,000	385,700	56
Pennsylvania	1,127,000	499,014	56
Delaware	479,785	223,000	54
Nevada	487,350	236,350	52
Texas	15,999,700	7,612,412	52
Alabama	7,567,600	3,783,800	50
Colorado	2,000,000	1,000,000	50
Michigan	11,200,000	5,583,400	50
North Carolina	11,089,500	5,689,500	49
North Dakota	4,927,500	2,499,000	49
Kansas	841,000	435,400	48
Florida	20,325,013	11,038,300	46
Louisiana	16,194,500	8,784,200	46
Wisconsin	9,800,000	5,331,392	46
Minnesota	15,070,000	8,700,000	42
Virginia	1,849,000	1,074,613	42
New Jersey	1,500,000	915,960	39
Oregon	2,262,000	1,393,900	38
Wyoming	2,000,000	1,250,000	38
Rhode Island	102,690	65,154	37
Arizona	931,000	600,000	36
Nebraska	2,910,500	1,905,500	35
South Dakota	2,735,100	1,780,000	35
Vermont	341,000	220,000	35
New Mexico	720,000	481,900	33
Washington	1,350,000	938,000	31
Utah	802,000	558,000	30
Massachusetts	818,000	588,486	28
Montana	1,147,000	840,300	27
South Carolina	6,414,000	4,659,000	27
West Virginia	134,000	102,000	24
Georgia	6,843,200	5,298,200	23
Maine	6,460,000	5,199,200	20
Hawaii	58,800	51,800	12
New Hampshire	220,000	200,000	9
Alaska	170,200,000	170,000,000	0.1
Totals	391,388,438	274,435,114