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Coon Creek Community Watershed Council

West Central Wisconsin

Coon Creek Community Watershed Council learns about managed grazing and perennial crop practices and profitability.
Coon Creek Community Watershed Council learns about managed grazing and perennial crop practices and profitability.

Contact

Contact: Nancy Wedwick

Email: cccwcinc@gmail.com

Phone: (608) 386-9086

Website: https://www.cooncreekwatershed.org

Social Media:

Mission

The Vision of the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council is: “A watershed nurtured, cherished, and flourishing.”

Our Mission is: “To continue the historic legacy of conservation leadership through restoring and improving our soil, water, and air as stewards of the Coon Creek Watershed.”

Our Council began in July, 2021, in response to the devastating and recurring floods in the Coon Creek Watershed. This is a community-led and producer-led group involving all facets of the community and encompassing a wide range of occupations and professions dedicated to building research-based and data-driven flood and climate resilience in the Coon Creek Watershed. We honor our history as the site of the Nation’s first watershed project, are committed to conservation leadership and growing our sense of community through collaborative learning and projects with our many partners.

News & Stories

Watershed or Service Area Map

About Us

Growing a Group:

  • Active group 5+ years
  • Book sharing
  • Farmer-led group
  • Formed a new group
  • Fundraising
  • Grant writing
  • Member-led project planning
  • Neighbor to neighbor mentoring
  • Personal invitations to neighbors to grow the group
  • Other

Collaboration:

  • Actively participated in local watershed planning process
  • Collaboration with agriculture or conservation organizations
  • Collaboration with local ag retailers and/or crop advisors
  • Collaboration with local civic groups
  • Collaboration with local college or university
  • Other

Outreach:

  • Engage local schools
  • Media interviews
  • Presentation to groups
  • Promotion to media outlets
  • Social media cultivation
  • Video Development
  • Website Development
  • Other

Land & Water:

  • Bioreactors
  • Cover crops
  • Crop diversification
  • Floodplain restoration
  • Grass waterways
  • Grazing
  • Nutrient management & retention
  • Perennial crops
  • Prairie strips
  • Saturated buffers
  • Stream buffers
  • Stream restoration
  • Water retention basins
  • Wetlands
  • Other

Assessment & Data:

  • Agronomic data collection
  • Field edge data collection
  • Field walkovers
  • Stream monitoring
  • Other

Events:

  • Fishing event
  • Farm field days
  • Paddle event
  • Upstream or downstream connections/visits
  • Booth at local event
  • Other

Fishers & Famers Partnership Program Participation:

  • Workshop
  • Neighbor to Neighbor Radio Podcast
  • Boots on the Ground Online Conversation
  • Group Presentation
  • Project Tour
  • Featured in a Story
  • Featured in a Video
  • Meetings
  • None

Additional Photos

"Nation's First Watershed Project" located near Coon Valley, Wisconsin
Members of the Bad Axe River, Tainter Creek and Coon Creek watershed councils meet together.
Coon Creek Community Watershed Council tours a local dam constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936 that is still in use today.
A small dam structure built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936 still prevents sediment loss in the hilly landscape.
Coon Creek Community Watershed Council learns about the practice and profitability of cover crops.

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