The Skinny on Salt
In Wisconsin, using salt at some point during the darkest months of the year is unavoidable. Many residents, schools, and businesses use de-icing salt on sidewalks and parking lots to keep us safe. Unfortunately, local [...]
2021 Winter Sowing Workshop Success!
Over the course of November 2021, we hosted 4 winter sow workshops. We got to partner with the girl scouts, 4-H, and a variety of other volunteers! The goal of this project is to [...]
Learn 2 Fish With Us 2021 Accomplishments
In 2021, Learn 2 Fish With Us was very fortunate to host thirty in-person fishing clinics. To date Learn 2 Fish With Us has hosted three hundred in-person fishing clinics and along with their educational [...]
Pipe Farmer Champions Demonstrate Progress
Dave Simon (Prairie Rock Farms) and Chad Tasch (Tasch’s Custom LLC) were introduced to readers in the Basin Buzz this past summer as the Pipe Creek Farmer Champions. Working with the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance [...]
Increase Adoption of Soil Health Conservation Systems in the Rat River Watershed
Rat River Watershed Soil Health - Project Background The Winnebago Lakes drain over 5,900 square miles of land from the Upper Fox and Wolf River Basins. The surface water runoff that comes from [...]
Farmer Champions to Showcase Conservation Practices in Winnebago County
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance aims to improve water quality by partnering with Winnebago County Land & Water Conservation Department (LWCD) and local farmers in the Rat River Watershed on soil health.Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance announced today [...]
2021 Soil Health Field Day
Our GLRI project partners, Fond du Lac County LWCD, organized a field day for Thursday, November 18th at 10am. They will be talking about our Pipe Creek Farmer Champion's 3-year project of continuous: no-till, [...]
Town of Calumet adds $25,000 to budget for run-off improvements
The Town of Calumet has been experiencing flooding in their township for years. Due to the natural landscape of living near the Niagara escarpment, steep slopes and runoff are common. The recent increases in [...]
Leave Your Leaves on Land
It's fall in Wisconsin. Red, yellow, and orange leaves cover our trees and land. But when it comes to surface water, there's a downside to those beautiful fall leaves we can't wait to see when [...]
NEWSC Talks TMDL Implementation at League of WI Municipalities Annual Conference
Members of NEWSC's Stormwater Quality Management Committee attended the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Annual Conference on October 21st to give a presentation about Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) implementation. The purpose of the session [...]