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Contributor
History Stories
Our contributors
offer their stories in the best tradition of private lands
in America. In the United States, public lands have played
an essential role in providing wildlife habitat, recreation,
wilderness, and watershed protection. However, a conservation
ethic demands a holistic approach in viewing human relationships
with all lands. Using an expression of Aldo Leopold, without
private land conservation, a strong public lands policy will
be "exactly as effective as buying half an umbrella."
Leopold
Aldo
Leopold's commitment encompassed both active land management
and wilderness preservation. His work can also be seen as
a bridge between the philosophical foundations of environmental
conservation and contemporary discourse about sustainability
and biodiversity.
Coon Valley
Coon
Valley, a watershed in the unglaciated area of Southwestern
Wisconsin was the site of the first national soil erosion
control project. A partnership of governmental agencies, university
educators, CCC laborers, and farm families led to the success
of this landmark effort.
NRCS Success Stories
UMBSN's
NRCS Success Stories, were created in a 2001 partnership
project with the Natural Resources Conservation Service of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Stakeholder
Network developed Agriculture Success Stories in Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. These graphical poster-stories
feature the Mark Twain Watershed Program, the Missouri Irrigation
Program, the Illinois River CREP, the Cache River Program,
the Anoka Sand Plain Project, the Olmsted County Hydrologic
Unit Program, and Plum Creek. (Caution: Large, poster-sized
graphics, from 2-5MB, may require extended download times
at modem speeds.)
Private Lands Resources
Links to several good
private lands resources, including
websites and conferences.
UMBSN Seeks
Conservation Success and Rural History Stories
 The
Upper Mississippi Basin Stakeholder Network is now offering
quality embroidered t-shirts or caps to contributors who submit
200-250 word stories:
* about recent successes
in soil and water conservation, or
* about rural family history related to settling and farming
the land, or
* about history related to water issues in rural towns and
in cities.
If your watershed eventually
drains into the Upper Mississippi River from Lake Itasca to
Grafton, Illinois, we'll publish your story on the UMBSN website.
Copies of photos, drawings, and maps are welcome and encouraged.
(UMBSN editors reserve the right to edit all content submitted.)
* Please be sure to include your name and address, and your
preference for a cap (cotton khaki with green bill), or a
t-shirt (100% cotton) in size S, M, L, XL, or XXL. The color
of both is "sand" (khaki). Send your submissions
electronically to: Stories
<umbsn@smumn.edu>, or by regular mail to:
Dick Hegle
Upper Mississippi Basin Stakeholders Network
700 Terrace Heights, #7
Winona, MN 55987
UMBSN
News Release
Conservation
Stories by Contributors
History
Stories by Contributors
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