Projects include: stabilization of eroding stream banks, reconnection to floodplain, construction of in-stream
habitat, installation of prairie & forest buffers,
exploration of alternative land uses, optimization of
fertilizer application rates, enhanced grazing rotations, improved watering systems, and much more.
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Mission: 
Fishers & Farmers Partnership for the Upper Mississippi River Basin advances long-term strategies for stream health and sustainable agriculture.
Vision:
Clean water is essential for the health, quality of life, and prosperity of each person in the Mississippi River Basin. Likewise, the health of every organism and stream on the river, from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, depends upon a clean flow of water.
Our vision rests on a belief that the combined experience, knowledge and skills of fishers and farmers can measurably improve the health of land and streams in the altered landscape of the Upper Mississippi River Basin. To advance this purpose, rural landowners voluntarily develop and implement science=based solutions to local water quality issues, with the support of conservationists. As landowners achieve their own goals for conservation and sustainable prosperity, successful practices will be demonstrated and effects measured, lessons will be learned and shared throughout the basin, and ultimately a globally significant landscape will be renewed.
Fishers and Farmers Partnership Brochure
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