The Upper Mississippi Basin Stakeholder Network (UMBSN) is a GeoSpatial Services, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota project. The UMBSN is an information sharing process designed to connect farm, citizen action, environmental organizations, watershed management alliances, county land and water conservation districts, landowners, Tribes, and Federal and State Agencies. It has three major goals:
· * Identify and create a connection between the multitude of diverse natural resource stakeholders within the Upper Mississippi Basin. Stakeholders are those organizations that have an interest in the Basin’s land conservation, the loss of sediment and nutrients, and the related affects on water quality.
· * Provide stakeholders with information pertinent to understanding or addressing issues of land conservation, sediment and nutrient management, and water quality to learned from successes, failures, and to create an active network of individuals or sites to function as support for those struggling with similar issues.
· * Create a platform to present information on UMR basin social justice issues. This is our newest goal, developed in response to the University's LaSallian heritage and commitment to LaSallian principles. To learn more about this important principle visit Lasallian Education.
The Network is built on a foundation that assumes better coordination, communication, and sharing ideas will result in better citizen involvement in the basin’s governance affecting land conservation, water quality, and sediment and nutrient management. By learning from what we do, we will do better in the future.
Why We Care. |
| We live, work, play, and raise our families in the midst of incredible natural resources, the center piece being the Mississippi River. The following are just simple examples of it and why it drives such passion for its protection and management. |
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The river's multiple use brings both concern and the opportunity for its management and sustainability. |
Diversity is one of the River's most enchanting characters. This prarie, woodland, and marsh comlex in Trempealeau NWR is a magical place. |
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Its backwaters are the heart of production and intrigue. |
But, much if its value come from sharing it with our children and the environment if provides in which to raise them. |
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