Agriculture
Building Soil Health One field At a Time Farming methods listed below are examples of best management practices that can improve soil health and reduce soil erosion. Benefits of soil health practices [...]
Fox-Wolf Awarded Grant to Expand NEWSC Training Opportunities
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance and the Northeast Wisconsin Stormwater Consortium (NEWSC) were recently awarded a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Surface Water Education Grant to fund stormwater education in 2021 and 2022. The grant, Changing Stormwater [...]
The Connecting Our Waters program is wrapping up
The Connecting Our Waters Program is wrapping up in June. We wanted to thank everyone for following along with us the past three years and we were so glad to bring Fox-Wolf further up [...]
Soil Health in Progress – Pipe Creek Watershed Project Updates
Pipe Creek - What's happening: Zach Laughlin, Watershed Coordinator with Fond du Lac County, provided an update about our farmers from the Pipe Creek Watershed project. Dave Simon of Prairie Rock Farms: With the [...]
Upper Fox-Wolf Demo Farm Network receives new interseeder to plant cover crops
Article submitted by Derrick J. Raspor, Soil Conservationist, Waupaca County The Upper Fox-Wolf Demonstration Farm Network will soon have a new interseeding unit that will be used to plant cover crops in between the [...]
Volunteer water quality efforts expanding throughout Fox-Wolf Basin
The Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance partnered with the WDNR and counties to advertise for water quality monitors throughout the watershed. Thanks to a news story on Fox 11 in late March, we have been able [...]
Restoration Spotlight: Lake Poygan Breakwall Phase 2 Construction
Article was originally published in Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department 2020 Annual Report. Written by Melanie Leet, Resource Conservationist, Winnebago County For anyone traveling by boat this summer near the mouth of [...]
Waushara County – Nutrient Management Implementation to begin in 2021
Article submitted by Todd Wahler, Waushara County Land Conservation and Zoning Since 2008 the State of Wisconsin Administrative Rule NR 151.07 – State wide Agricultural Performance Standards has required all crop producers that apply commercial fertilizer [...]
In the Field – The FDL County Land and Water Conservation Department
Article submitted by Melanie Kalmerton, Fond du Lac County Land & Water Conservation Dept. With the field season soon approaching, we over at Fond du Lac County Land and Water Conservation Department wanted to [...]
WI DNR awards more than $6.2 million in funding across WI to protect and restore waterways
Press release from the WI DNR (3/12/2021). Photo credit: Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the department is awarding more than $6.2 million in funding to communities [...]