If he wins, hundreds of thousands of acres in Iowa and other states could be drained, plowed and put into production. As they did with the Sackett case, Conlan’s lawyers hope to topple another pillar of the federal government’s wetland conservation policy. The Iowa caseA nine-acre tract of trees, stumps and brush near Delaware, Iowa, that is owned by CTM Holdings is considered a wetland by federal regulators. “They’re basically relinquishing [that] constitutional right in order to receive federal benefits,” said Seehase, the attorney for Conlan’s company. Elle Gadient is a beginning farmer near Hopkinton, Iowa, and is downstream from the CTM Holdings wetland.