Dubuque County Watersheds

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
  

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