What is a watershed? How can you plan and manage the land in a watershed – either rural or urban — to improve the cleanliness and purity of the water that flows off it? How do you track and measure your results?
About 120 people attended Watershed Summit 2011: Managing Water on the Land from a Watershed Perspective, a daylong conference hosted Saturday, March 12, by the Minnesota Division of the Izaak Walton League and the Freshwater Society.
More than a dozen speakers offered insights and practical experience on ways local governments, state and local agencies and individual citizens can work to improve water quality in Minnesota.
Groups represented by the speakers included: the Minnehaha Creek, Buffalo Red River, Bois De Sioux and Capitol Region watershed districts; the Scott County Soil and Conservation District; the University of Minnesota; the Nature Conservancy, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy; the Agricultural Water Resources Coaliton; Clean Up the River Environment; the Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.