As Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Robin Vos created the Task force on Water Quality to gather information and make policy recommendations for the improvement of both ground water and surface water quality in [...]
The Connecting Our Waters program of the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is partnering with the Upper Fox-Wolf Demo Farm Network to host a farmer round table in 2020. Planning is in the works but we [...]
From NRCS: New Upper Fox-Wolf Demonstration Farm Network Thriving in Northeast Wisconsin The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS) and Waupaca County Land & Water Conservation Department, in partnership with Fond [...]
The Plum Creek and Kankapot Creek watersheds, located near the villages of Kaukauna and Wrightstown in northeast Wisconsin, were identified in the Lower Fox River Total Maximum Daily Load (2012) plan as one of [...]
Coon Creek erosion - Photo: NRCS By 1930, landowners and farmers in southwest Wisconsin's Coon Creek watershed were ready for a change. Enticing wheat prices in the mid to late 1800s had [...]
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) recently sent out a PRESS RELEASE regarding a new, updated version of the Wisconsin Runoff Risk Advisory Tool. This tool was developed to give [...]
The Alliance for the Great Lakes, along with a number of project partners, including the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, will be hosting the 4th Annual Farmers Roundtable Event on January 24, 2019. See below for [...]
On December 11, 2018 the Shawano County Land Conservation Department hosted a SnapPlus training for farmers throughout Shawano County. SnapPlus v.18 is nutrient management planning software specific for Wisconsin. Snap stands for Soil Nutrient Application Planner and is a program [...]
Freshly cut hay on the author's Wisconsin farm We are America’s dairy land. One of the first things to come to mind when people think of Wisconsin is a rolling pastoral landscape, [...]
