Watershed Moments: What Agriculture Can Be
Andy Kiefer shares best practices and ideas with local farmers. Andy Kiefer never wanted anything to do with agriculture as an adult. He grew up on a multi-generation dairy farm in Sherwood. [...]
Watershed Moments: You Wouldn’t Have the Fox Valley
Ken and Megan Karth are citizen scientists, collecting data for use in assorted projects. Ken Karth made a living making dirty water clean. “When I started working in the business, the Wisconsin River [...]
Watershed Moments: Green Sludge and Litter
Bridget Kufner, cleaning the banks of the Fox River. “The visual of green sludge and litter, along the shoreline or floating, it makes me sad.” Bridget Kufner grew up along the Branch River [...]
Watershed Moments: You Can Feel Ownership
Nick Ruzek organizes a neighborhood cleanup in his community every year. Maybe you’ve never seen Nick Ruzek walking around with a garbage bag hanging out of his pocket, but it’s probably only [...]
Watershed Moments: We Lost the Wetlands
Not many of us have seen the birth — and death — of an entire ecosystem, right in our own backyard. But when Tom Mace was 9 or 10 years old, he and his [...]
Watershed Moments: A Foot of Land a Year
If your property were disappearing at a rate of one foot a year, how long would it take until it was gone entirely? And what would you do about it? Erosion can be a [...]
Watershed Moments: Water for Sand Castles
Imagine having to bring your own water to the beach. Kevin Fermanich doesn’t have to imagine this, because he’s already seen it. He was at a state park one day when there was algae [...]
Watershed Moments: Rick Fox
Rick Fox grew up on Lake Michigan in Kenosha, always on the water. He was a SCUBA diver by age 13, and by 15 years old knew he wanted to be an oceanographer when he [...]
Watershed Moments: Travis Coenen
Travis Coenen grew up on the river in Wrightstown, fishing, canoeing, and launching from the boat ramp. As an adult, he works for the community as the Village Administrator of Wrightstown. He was aware [...]
Watershed Moments: Ashley Muench
Ashley grew up fishing with her dad on Lake Winnebago, but it was taking two environmental science classes at UW-Oshkosh that gave her a more concrete idea of how important the environment is. For [...]