UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN WATERSHED GROUPS Farmer-Led or With Strong Farmer Participation
When many farm operators and landowners take action in one place at the same time, we tip the balance to widespread, lasting farm and watershed health.
In agricultural watersheds throughout the Basin neighbors are increasingly working so nature can renew itself, and helps keep land productive. This map displays together to identify erosion and nutrient sources, implement solutions, and share watershed groups working in agricultural lands of the Upper Mississippi River what they’re doing with others. Collective action changes conditions enough Basin. The groups have strong farmer participation or are farmer-led.
GROUPS SHOWN ON THIS MAP Watershed names in blue received project funding from Fishers & Farmers Partnership.
IOWA 45 Upper Macoupin Creek Watershed 14 Farmer Led Watershed Group In Iowa County 48 Vermillion River 15 Farmers for Lake Country (Oconomowoc RIver 2 Badger Creek Lake Watershed Project Watershed) 51 Black Hawk Creek Water & Soil Coalition MINNESOTA 16 Farmers of Barron County Watersheds 4 Boone River 17 Friends of Mill Creek Watershed, Inc. 8 Cannon River Watershed Partnership 5 Buck Creek 18 Hay River Farmer Led Watershed Council 10 Chippewa River Watershed 10% Project 9 Cedar River Watershed Coalition 20 Horse Lake-Horse Creek 12 Discovery Farms (Sauk River) 11 Coldwater Creek 32 Pecatonica Pride Producer-led Watershed Association 24 Le Sueur River Watershed Partnership 19 Hewitt Creek & Hickory Creek 33 Penninsula Pride Farms 37 Root River Field To Stream Partnership 25 Lime Creek Watershed Improvement Association 36 Rocky Branch Farmer Led Watershed Council 39 Rush/Pine Farmer-Led Council 27 Maquoketa River Water Management Authority 43 South Kinni Farmer-Led Watershed Council 40 Seven-Mile Creek 29 Middle Cedar Partnership Project 44 St. Croix/Red Cedar River Basin Farmer-Led Watershed 49 Whitewater River Watershed Project 30 Middle West Fork Crooked Creek Council Project 31 Mineral Creek (Iowa State University) MISSOURI 46 Upper Sugar River Producer Coalition 35 Rock Creek 47 Kickapoo River (Tainter Creek Farmer-led Watershed 38 Shell Rock River 28 Meramec/Bourbeuse Farmer Led-Committee Council & West Fork Watershed Group) 41 Southfork Iowa River Watershed Alliance 34 Peno Creek/Spring Creek 50 Yahara Pride Farms (Yahara and Rock Rivers) 42 Shoal Creek Woodlands for Wildlife (SCWW) Partnership ILLINOIS WISCONSIN 1 Apple Plum Watershed 3 Big/Little Beaver Creek 21 Hutchins Creek Watershed Project 6 Buffalo-Trempealeau Farmer Network (Elk Creek 22 Indian Creek Watershed Project Watershed) 23 Lake Bloomington/Evergreen Lake Watershed Oversight 7 Buffalo-Trempealeau Farmer Network (Waumandee Committee Creek) 26 Mackinaw River 13 Dry Run Creek