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Technical and Financial Services Provided |
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Land & Water Conservation Department has a staff of 8 County
employees, including 7 professionals and 1 secretary. Each staff
member has a somewhat different background in the areas of geography, soil
and water conservation, agronomy, watershed management, and GIS. We work closely with federal and state agencies including
Wisconsin DNR, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer
Protection, UW-Extension, USDA Agencies, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
We provide technical and financial services in a number of ways.
Some of these are:
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- Land management planning and project
design for individual landowners. This includes lands that are being
cropped, tree planting, upland wildlife habitat development, wetland
restorations, etc.
- Review of erosion control and
stormwater management plans for large and small-scale urban
development projects.
- Design, cost-estimating, layout and
construction supervision of "best management" practices
built for land and water resource improvements.
- Administer a county funded Water
Quality Improvement Program. This program provides funds to
private landowners for various projects that improve water quality.
- Secure and manage state and federal
grants for County Land and Water Resource Management initiatives and
the State Priority Watershed Program.
- Secure and make available equipment,
tools, and supplies that assist landowners in meeting their
objectives in installing best management practices including
planting protective vegetation on critical sites, tree planting,
wildlife habitat development, etc.
Our focus is on the land and water
resources of this County. We are here to serve you in that regard.
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