Bad Axe Watershed
Valley Stewardship Network Projects
- On-farm stewardship research
- Conservation goats for invasive species control
- Water sampling
- Looking to start a Watershed Council
- Prairie strips
- Cover crop grazing research plots
Other Items of Interest
- Several Mississippi Valley Conservancy easements
- Great trout fishing

Conservation goats at work

Prairie flowers
Coon Creek Watershed
Valley Stewardship Network Projects
- Bird-friendly farming/haying demonstration plot
- Late first haying to protect bird nests – research nutritional value of forage grown afterward
- Conservation goats – forest mowing for pecan growing
- Managed grazing
- Bird surveys
Other Items of Interest
- Coon Valley implemented the nation’s first watershed protection plan through soil erosion prevention
- In 1933 a new federal agency, the Soil Erosion Service, selected Coon Creek as the first watershed in which to demonstrate the values of soil conservation measures. They decided to demonstrate how farmers could plan farming operations to include soil conservation for long-term productivity.
- Regenerative agriculture farmers who sell their products
- Jim Munsch – beef
- Rod Ofte
- John Lee – rotationally grazed beef
- St. Brigid’s Meadow

Bird-friendly beef grazing

Bird-friendly hay field
Kickapoo Watershed
Valley Stewardship Network Projects
- Kickapoo Bird Habitat Initiative work with Important Bird Areas
- Partnering with the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Mississippi Valley Conservancy, and the Department of Natural Resources
- Water sampling
- Prairie strips
- Soil sampling
Other Items of Interest
- Kickapoo Caverns
- Bat habitat protection through the Mississippi Valley Conservancy
- Driftless Area Water Study (DAWS) well-testing initiative
- Mastodon Valley Farm – regenerative agriculture – products for sale
- Emerging research by University of Wisconsin on flood prevention

Measuring stream flow

Prairie strip ready to plant
Tainter Creek Watershed
Valley Stewardship Network Projects
- Tainter Creek Farmer-Led Watershed Council initiation and support
- Managed Grazing
- Cover Crops
- Prairie strips
- Grazing strips
- On-farm research
- Bird-friendly grazing
Other Items of Interest
- Trout Unlimited stream restoration

Tainter Creek Farmer-Led Watershed Council Meeting

Ray Archuleta presentation gathering
West Fork of the Kickapoo Watershed
Valley Stewardship Network Projects
- West Fork Neighbors Watershed Council
- Book readings – Douglas W. Tallamy
- Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
- Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
- Plant 10 native species plan
- Well water testing
- Book readings – Douglas W. Tallamy
- Conservation goats – invasive plant control
- Water sampling
- Prairie strips

Conservation goats at work

West Fork Neighbor Watershed Council Meeting