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Program videos from the 2017 Watershed Summit held March 11, 2017.
2017 WATERSHED SUMMIT
The Year of Water: What Is the Path Forward?
Minnesota is promoting programs to reduce the risks to Minnesota's waters. Prioritization, targeting and measureable outcomes are at the heart of leveraging Minnesota resources to implement outcome based conservation programs - programs to address issues of water quality and quantity, erosion, soil health, groundwater contamination and nutrient reduction.
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Welcome-Introduction and Gov. Dayton's Year of Water
Jill Crafton
Minnesota Divsion Izaak Walton League
and
Dr. Anna Henderson
Clean Water Advisor to Governor Dayton
13 Minutes -
Upstream Impacts on Minnesota River Farm
Aaron Peterson
Farmer from Shakopee-Eden Prairie area.
Introduced by Don Arnosti
Minnesota Division Izaak Walton League
25 Minutes -
Yellow Medicine: One Watershed, One Plan
Emily Javens
District Administrator
Yellow Medicine River Watershed District
37 minutes -
Local Government Water Roundtable
LeAnn Buck
Executive Director
Minnesota Association of Soil & Water Conservation Districts
32 minutes -
Grand Marais Creek Outlet Restoration
Myron Jesme
Administrator
Red Lake Watershed District
43 minutes -
North Ottawa Project
Jerome Deal
Manager
Bois de Sioux Watershed District Manger
and
Aaron Ostlund, Project Coordinator
Red River Basin Commission
48 Minutes -
Minnesota Buffers Initiative Overview
Tom Gile
Buffers and Soil Erosion Program Coordinator
Minnesota Board of Water & Soil Resources
50 Minutes -
Cover Crops: Making it Work!
Tom Cotter
Farmer
Mower County, Minnesota
58 Minutes -
Impediments to Multipurpose Projects
Bruce E. Albright
Administrator
Buffalo-Red River Watershed District
52 minutes