November 2019 Forum November’s forum speaker will be Steve Gustafson, Vice Chair of Partners of Scott County Watersheds. He plans to discuss the results of the Snapshots conducted in 2019 in relation to the entire database that PSCW has compiled over the years. He will discuss trends and concentrations for Scott County’s rural and urban
The less plastic that we use now, the healthier that our planet will be in the future. Click here for tips on how to reduce your plastic consumption.
USDA is extending the deadline to November 8, 2019, for eligible agriculture producers to enroll in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) Grassland Conservation Initiative, which was created by the 2018 Farm Bill. The original deadline was October 25, 2019. This program is available to producers with base acreage that has been in grass or grasslands over a
We had a full house for Amy Bouska’s presentation on urban conservation practices! Thank you to everyone who attended!
“Monitoring provides the objective evidence necessary to make sound decisions on managing water quality today and in the future. Water-quality monitoring is used to alert us to current, ongoing, and emerging problems, to determine compliance with drinking water standards, and to protect other beneficial uses of water. Assessments based on monitoring data help law makers
Decades ago, the Nahant Marsh in Davenport, IA was used as a city dump and then a gun club. Eventually the EPA declared it a Superfund Site in the late 1990s, leading to a cleanup of 140 tons of lead. But then the local community turned it into a nature preserve and began buying nearby farmland, creating