Soil Health & Watershed Groups
Le Sueur River Watershed Network
Le Sueur River Watershed
Southern Minnesota
Contact
Contact: Kimberly Musser - Water Resources Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Email: kimberly.musser@mnsu.edu
Phone: (507) 389-5307
Mission
The Le Sueur River Watershed Network exists to encourage collaboration, empower citizens, and nurture a land stewardship ethic amongst those that live, work and recreate in the watershed.
News & Stories
- Le Sueur River Watershed Network
- A Citizen Advisory Group Gets Started | Le Sueur River Watershed Network
- Our Ties To the Land & Water | 7 Recommendations | Le Sueur River Watershed Network
- Storing Water on Landscape Focus of Le Sueur River Watershed | Mankato Free Press
- A Wetter World is Changing Farm Country. Can Growers adapt? | Minneapolis Star Tribune
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
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