2023| Huzzah/Shoal Creeks Woodlands for Wildlife
Using conservation marketing, an innovative approach being used in this geography, to engage landowners willing to adopt agricultural BMPs (Best Management Practices).
Read More2024 | Valley Stewardship Network – Coon Creek & Neighboring Watersheds
VSN has supported the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council by helping develop a 9 Key Element Watershed Plan and advancing farmer-led conservation efforts in the region. This work also includes leadership training, water quality monitoring, and expanded stewardship practices to protect Coon Creek and surrounding watersheds.
Read More2022 | Bridge to Soil Health
Land Stewardship Project’s Bridge to Soil Health program is scaling-up the number of crop & livestock farmers who are restoring soil and talking publicly about resulting financial and environmental benefits.
Read More2022 | Soil Regeneration
Farmers, Izaak Walton League, agencies and ag service providers are advancing farming systems to restore soil health in Minnesota, including education, events, forums, interviews, workshops, tours and demonstration plots.
Read More2022 | Seven Mile Creek Watershed
Farmers, Great River Greening and Nicollet SWCD are hosting field days, community events, demonstrations and discussions to advance cover crops, crop rotation and data collection showing results of conservation practices.
Read More2014 | Mississippi Valley Conservancy – Kickapoo River Watershed
Multiple partners turned watershed data into action—engaging landowners, restoring habitat, and protecting over 14,000 acres in this Wisconsin watershed through sustainable, community-led conservation.
Read More2019 | Rice Creek & Cannon River Watersheds
Farmers are planting cover crops for 3 consecutive years and Clean River Partners, St. Olaf College and Minnesota DNR are coordinating, monitoring and conducting a fish count to show impacts.
Read More2019 | Valley Stewardship Network – Tainter, West Fork, Bad Axe & Kickapoo Watersheds
New farmer-led watershed councils are forming across Southwest Wisconsin, empowering local land stewards to lead conservation efforts and improve water quality from the ground up.
Read More2021 | Valley Stewardship Network – Kickapoo, Bad Axe Watersheds
Across Southwest Wisconsin, farmers and landowners are coming together to protect clean water, healthy soil, and thriving communities. Through farmer-led watershed councils, prairie plantings, and hands-on education, this growing movement is restoring the land—one field, one stream, and one conversation at a time.
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