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Remembering Barb Gifford“Barb has made a significant, lasting impact on the people of Portage County and water advocates across Wisconsin by teaching the next generation about the importance of our water resources through Little Plover River field days.” - Wisconsin State Representative... Read More
If you had any question whether conservation practices like cover crops can rapidly transform the agricultural landscape, think about this—we moved the Miltrim Farms award ceremony into their field because it was the driest spot.Everyone had come to Athens, WI in Marathon County to watch... Read More
Crying Out From Kewaunee County As we've reported in our #wish4waterWI campaign and heard from Susan Connor, Kewaunee County is soaked in cow manure. That county board just passed a resolution calling for some limits on manure spreading. The town of Lincoln, in Kewaunee County, on its own... Read More
You know from our #wish4waterWI campaign and Susan Connor's story of her and her neighbors' struggles living with avalanches of manure in Kewaunee County. Their greatest fear is that the state of Wisconsin could allow what is euphemistically called "manure irrigation" -- that is, the... Read More
Always curious and always exploring, Susan Connor grew up in the small town of Laona, nestled among the lakes of the Nicolet National Forest. She traveled south to Madison and Milwaukee while pursuing degrees and a career, but eventually landed, happily, on the shores of Lake Michigan in... Read More
