Zumbro Watershed Partnership
Summit will cover new state laws governing waterway buffers
Mar 18, 2016
In 2015, the state enacted a new law requiring perennial vegetated buffers along waterways. The buffers are designed to keep soil and farm fertilizers out of streams, rivers and othe public waterways.
The Zumbro Watershed Buffer Summit aims to answer questions landowners may have about the new law...
Report: Voluntary conservation costly, ineffective
Mar 2, 2016
What are we getting for our taxpayer-funded farm conservation dollars? If we’re looking at Iowa watersheds, the answer seems to be “not much.” And unfortunately, the story might be the same in Minnesota.
A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a community health group, used United...
Rest Island figured big in alcohol prohibition
Nov 12, 2015
Lake City, and specifically Rest Island on the north edge of town, played a key role in local and state efforts to enforce prohibition at the end of the 19th century.
That history will be spelled out in a Goodhue County Historical Society program to be held in Red Wing Nov. 19.
The program is being...
Hearth and Home donates to watershed partnership
Aug 27, 2015
Hearth and Home Technologies recently presented Zumbro Watershed Partnership (ZWP) with a $200 contribution. Pictured are Lawrence Svien (left), executive director of ZWP and Liz Carlstrom of Hearth and Home Technologies. The Zumbro Watershed Partnership is a private non-profit organization that...
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