Fond du Lac County Land & Water Department recently published a video that highlights our Pipe Creek Watershed GLRI project. Fond du Lac County was able to hire Zach Laughlin, who created the video, thanks to this Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Grant. Zach provides boots on the ground support for the farmers challenged to implement soil health practices through this project. He also works to help other farmers adopt soil health practices in the Pipe Creek watershed.
“The Pipe Creek Watershed in the northeast portion of Fond du Lac County, has seen a significant amount of phosphorous runoff into Lake Winnebago over the last couple of years. Dairy farms account for 71% of the land usage in the watershed. This project, funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, is challenging two farmers, Chad Tasch and Dave Simon, to implement continuous no-till, cover crops, and low disturbance manure injection on 225 acres each for three years. These practices best reduce the risk of runoff and erosion, but they are new to this area and require experimentation and economic risk to accomplish the desired environmental outcomes. This project is being done in collaboration with the Fond du Lac Land and Water Conservation Department, Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, and Outagamie Land Conservation Department.”
Check out more of Zach’s videos on the Fond du Lac Land & Water Youtube Channel and Facebook page.
Questions? Contact us:
Climate Smart Agriculture Project Manager: Katie Woodrow, 920.915.5767 or katie@fwwa.org
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