MARCH 2017 2016 WINNEBAGO COUNTY LAND AND WATER

CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT Inside this issue:

The Lake Poygan 1 & 2 Breakwall Winnebago System - 3 Lake Management Plan THE LAKE POYGAN BREAKWALL Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) By Chad Casper, Resource Conservationist Implementation Begins 4 in the Lower Fox River L ake Poygan is one of the four lakes that make up the Winnebago System. It has a Watershed maximum depth of 11 feet and is a little over 14,000 acres in size. Lake Poygan Winnebago County historically supported dense emergent and submergent aquatic vegetation that provided Chapter 13 Livestock critical habitat for fish and wildlife. Unfortunately aquatic vegetation has since declined Waste Management 5 throughout the system and Lake Poygan has shifted towards a turbid open water habitat. Ordinance Revisions This has resulted in an overall decrease in submergent and emergent vegetation. Approved Winnebago County In order to help offset the continuing decline of aquatic vegetation and help improve LWCD and NRCS 5 water quality in Lake Poygan, an expansive breakwall is being planned on the north shore Administer $1,122,957 of the lake. Phase 1 of the project was constructed by barge in the summer of 2016. The in Grant Funding first phase had 1,170’ of rock breakwall installed where the Wolf River outlets into 2016 Soil Health Field Lake Poygan. The remaining phases of the breakwall design are currently being discussed Days “Seeing is 6 & 7 in great detail. A team of representatives from WI Department of Natural Resources Believing” (DNR), the Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department (LWCD), and the Nutrient Management Lake Poygan Sportsman Club are working together to come up with the best breakwall 8 design for improving water quality, along with the fisheries and wildlife habitat. Monitoring Planning from phase 1 along with wind/wave modeling will be used to assist in the design process. State Agricultural 8 Depending on the final design, the overall breakwall will be around 9,000-11,000 feet in Performance Standards total length and will create 300-540 acres of protected water behind it. 2016 Farmland 8 Preservation Program The Poygan breakwall will help prevent turbid river water from flowing through the habitat Information and restoration area. The breakwall will also reduce sediment resuspension within the habitat 9 & 10 restoration area by breaking waves and protecting the shoreline of the emergent marsh Education from further erosion. The breakwall will establish a quiet backwater that will aid in the 2016 Installed Best 11 growth of native submergent and emergent aquatic plants, improve water quality, and Management Practices create new fish and wildlife habitat. The restoration of aquatic vegetation within the Lake Poygan breakwall will provide nesting, spawning, rearing, and refuge habitat for James P. Coughlin multiple fish species including , crappie, , and . By Center Rain Garden 12 Demonstration enhancing the wetland and creating high quality habitat, this will attract spring and fall migrating waterfowl and also improve habitat for breeding and brood-rearing waterfowl. Technology Trends 12 This project may also re-establish migration habitat for diving ducks which formerly visited Cattle Watering Systems 13 the Winnebago pool lakes in large numbers during migrations. Extensive monitoring for water quality, plants, fisheries, and wildlife will be assessed to showcase the overall Tree Sale 13 success of the project. 14 & 2017 Poster Contest 15 Ducks Unlimited, WI DNR, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lake Poygan Sportsman Club, and the Winnebago County LWCD are currently working together on applying for several New 2017 Land Atlas 16 grants to help fund the design and construction of the next phase which is tentatively and Plat Book

scheduled for late 2018. Continued on page 2 Page 1 Continued from page 1

equipment working on top of breakwall, shaping to design specifications

project location on the north shore of Lake Poygan near the Wolf River outlet

since 1941, approximately 366 acres of wetland habitat have disappeared due to wind, wave, and ice action in the project area

barge hauling loads of stone to the project site installation of grid composite system to reduce settlement and distribute the weight of stone

Page 2 WINNEBAGO SYSTEM – LAKE MANAGEMENT PLAN

By Chad Casper, Resource will be a dynamic funding was allocated to committees and advisory Conservationist document that serves as a the Fox-Wolf Watershed groups will be formed to guide for strategic and Alliance (FWWA) to hire a help gather input, compile T he lakes of the holistic management of our project coordinator to help existing data on the lakes, Winnebago System are lakes. lead the efforts. FWWA and prioritize a list of valuable resources and applied for and management action play a vital role in the local The development of a successfully received four recommendations. economy. These lakes Winnebago System LMP is DNR Lake Management provide a way of life with a monumental undertaking Planning grants, one for many long-held family t h a t i n c l u d e s a each lake, to help aid in the traditions. They offer public collaborative effort overall cost of developing parks, beaches, boating, between several the plan. hunting, and an organizations in a five- outstanding fishery. In county region that are There will be ample addition, over 250,000 working together to achieve opportunity for people get their drinking this goal. Winnebago, stakeholders and the water from Lake Fond du Lac, and Calumet public to provide input Winnebago alone. Counties have approved throughout the transparent Impressively the lakes are funding to help advance planning process. During 167,000 surface acres, the Lake Management the outreach and education which is approximately Planning efforts. This efforts, numerous 17% of the overall surface water found in . It is one of the largest fresh water systems in the United States.

Currently the lakes have several concerns including algal blooms, polluted runoff, and invasive species as some of the top issues. Due to the large size of the Winnebago System, most management issues span multiple jurisdictions making localized management efforts difficult to accomplish. The need for an effective and cost- efficient way to manage the lakes is the reason counties and other agencies have combined their efforts to develop a comprehensive Winnebago System Lake Management Plan (LMP). The document will be one unified LMP for , Poygan, Winneconne, and Butte des Morts. The Winnebago System LMP will not be a regulatory document nor will it create a new layer of government. The Winnebago System LMP

Page 3 TOTAL M AXIMUM DAILY LOAD (TMDL) IMPLEMENTATION BEGINS IN THE LOWER FOX RIVER WATERSHED

By Tom Davies, Director attendees discussed the issues facing our resources and the issues facing today’s landowners and T he Winnebago County Land and Water producers. Discussion focused on what practices and Conservation Department (LWCD) began working with management changes might be implemented to key landowners and operators in the portion of the improve water quality in the watershed. Lower Fox River Watershed (LFR) located in Winnebago County to implement the TMDL The objective is to work voluntarily with landowners to requirements. A TMDL is the amount of pollutant a achieve compliance with the State Agricultural waterbody can receive and still meet federal water Performance Standards. The EVAAL model will then quality standards. be rerun to determine pollution load reductions achieved. Further reductions would be pursued if The first step in the process was to identify the necessary. Landowners and producers would continue priority areas within the sub-watersheds that are to be actively involved in the process. contributing the majority of sediment and phosphorus load to the LFR. To accomplish this the “Erosion Our department is currently working with landowners Vulnerability Assessment for Agricultural Lands to inventory cropland and livestock facilities to (EVAAL)” GIS model was used. EVAAL is designed to identify what, if any, conservation practices need to quickly identify areas vulnerable to erosion using be installed or implemented in the LFR. Several readily available data. The output of EVAAL pinpoints cropland conservation practices have already been where conservation assessment efforts should be constructed to address severe erosion issues. Our prioritized. Through the EVAAL data a list of key department will continue to work with landowners and landowners for TMDL implementation was generated. producers to improve the resources in the LFR and meet the TMDL requirements. In April 2016 key landowners were invited to attend one of three informational meetings regarding the TMDL implementation process. At the meetings, the

map of Lower Fox Watershed map showing results of EVAAL model in Mud Creek Watershed

Page 4 WINNEBAGO COUNTY CHAPTER 13 LIVESTOCK WASTE MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE REVISIONS APPROVED

By Tom Davies, Director

T he Winnebago County Board of Supervisors approved revisions to the Winnebago County Livestock Waste Management Ordinance (LWMO) in December. This approval followed two public hearings, review, and approval by the Land Conservation Committee (LCC). These actions culminated a two year process of review, research, and revision by the Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department (LWCD).

Revisions to the LWMO were necessary to update language, terms, codes, and technical standards that are referenced or used within the document. Unnecessary items were removed and needed changes were made to make the LWMO more consistent and easier to understand and implement. A main goal of this revision was to remove references to specific standards or specifications. This allows for normal changes and updates within the codes without having to update the LWMO.

If you would like to review the updated LWMO, you can find it on the Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department website at: www.co.winnebago.wi.us/lwcd.

WINNEBAGO COUNTY LWCD AND NRCS ADMINISTER $1,122,957 IN GRANT FUNDING

By Tom Davies, Director Quality Improvement Management Practices These funds, totaling Program. The LWCD also (BMPs) contracted through $1,122,957 are utilized T he Winnebago County carried over $105,567 of the Environmental Quality to cost share and Land and Water state and local Incentives support the installation Conservation Department contracted cost Program (EQIP) of BMPs and reward (LWCD) applied for and share funds and $381,353 conservation minded received $269,694 in state from 2014 and in incentives to land practices grant funding. This funding 2015 to be p r o d u c e r s / throughout Winnebago was used to cost share utilized in landowners for County. Grant and projects and practices for 2016. current and program funds such as landowners and offset n e w these provide a departmental expenses. In The Natural conservation significant and positive addition, the LWCD R e s o u r c e minded farming economic impact for our budgeted $84,000 of cost Conservation p r a c t i c e s local producers/ share funds for county Service (NRCS) provided through the Conservation landowners, contractors landowners through the $282,343 for the Stewardship Program and related businesses. Winnebago County Water installation of Best (CSP).

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By Tom Davies, Director local soils from three field Dave Robison, Indiana structure and living cover. areas with different farmer and soil health Each time the results of the D uring a very hot week management systems. expert on the program, who rainfall simulation were in August, after months of Fields farmed with no-till shared his experience and observed by the audience, preparation by the and cover crops were observations of over thirty a buzz of “that’s incredible” Winnebago County Land compared to conventional years of no-till farming with could readily be heard and Water Conservation tillage systems and cover crops. throughout the group. The Department (LWCD), the undisturbed soils from no-till field sections with Natural Resource fence rows through various This year for the first time cover crops had Conservation Service t a b l et o p t es t s . An we were able to use a tremendous infiltration with (NRCS), the University of WI very little runoff, and what Extension (UWEX), did run off was very clean. Rocco Lewis, and Ron and The conventionally tilled Rick Gehrke and their field sections with little families, a three day soil residue and no cover crops health education course had a tremendous amount was presented. The goal of soil laden runoff and was to educate agency very little infiltration due to professionals from UWEX, poor soil structure. NRCS, County LWCDs, and the Department of Natural This soil health field day Resources (DNR) along very clearly demonstrated with producers, that there is not a runoff agronomists, the general problem in agriculture, public, students and there is an infiltration educators. Each day was problem. This can also be designed to focus on seen through years of world different groups. -wide crop yield testing, The overall aim of the field herbicide research and soil day was to present “soil science. Studies have health” as it relates to soil shown there is absolutely formation under prairie rainfall simulator: used to show the difference in infiltration and runoff of no reason to till the soil for different crop management systems conditions, the best crop production. This event agricultural soils in the also demonstrated the soil world, versus conventional s t r u c t u r e b u i l d i n g agricultural systems and capabilities of no-tilled land soils. Prairie soils are the with cover crops versus most productive because excavated soils pit was also rainfall simulator that conventionally tilled fields of how they were utilized to allow individuals applied “rain” on sample and helped participants developed. Prairie soils had to examine and identify the sections of crop fields that visualize the critical infrequent disturbance by differences in soil structure were taken from different differences in infiltration grazing and fire without and soil health with areas on the site and water holding capacity. tillage and a thorough different management representing the different For the sake of our coverage of very diverse systems. During the management systems. The valuable agricultural and perennial vegetation with session with producers, runoff and infiltrated natural resources, let’s living roots in the ground agronomists and the rainfall was captured in hope that “seeing is year round. general public, the clear containers to believing” for our current participants were very effectively demonstrate the and future producers. Every session compared fortunate to learn from many benefits of good soil Continued on page 7

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Phil Meyer, NRCS Soil Scientist describes the dramatic differences in soil Phil Meyer and Pat Lake, NRCS review the process of removing the structure produced by conventional tillage, no-till, and no-till with cover slabs of soil from the crop fields and how the rainfall simulator works crops in the soil pit

rainfall simulator in action, notice the difference in water clarity and infiltration with no-till and cover crops on the left vs. conventional tillage and no cover crops on the right

A special thanks to Zillges Excavating for donating the soil pit excavation, Beck’s Meats for donating snacks, and AgSource Labs for donating the soil testing, your donations and assistance were much appreciated!

Page 7 NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PLANNING

By Sheila Smith, Agronomist basic knowledge about 2016 was 59,293, a 6% farmland has a NMP. soil, nutrients, manure, increase (3,443 This illustrates the N utrient management and the growing of crops. acres) from priority the Winnebago farmer training classes Farmers who write 2015. Three County Land and Water were held again in 2016 their own new farms with Conservation with nine producers plans must 3,359 acres Department has placed operating 4,938 acres in retake the have received on this practice and the attendance. Farmers class every state funded impact of the State develop a better four years to cost sharing Agricultural understanding about the stay qualified. to write a NMP Performance Standards steps taken to write a for their farm in 2017. on ag producers within Nutrient Management The total number Currently, 54% of Winnebago County. Plan (NMP) and gain of NMP acres for Winnebago County

STATE AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

By Sheila Smith, Agronomist  clean water diversions,  nutrient management planning, N R151: Runoff Management is Wisconsin’s  tillage setbacks, administrative code that establishes polluted runoff  phosphorous index, performance standards for agricultural facilities and  wastewater handling, practices, as well as non-agricultural practices. These Ag  fertilizer and manure management Performance Standards are intended to be the minimum requirements to protect water quality. The code also Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation establishes implementation and enforcement provisions. Department (LWCD) employees are contacting farmers throughout the county in an effort to assess their current The standards and prohibitions are intended to protect compliance status with state Ag Performance Standards. water quality by minimizing the amount of soil erosion, LWCD employees are informing farmers about the nutrients from manure and croplands, and other nonpoint standards, how they affect their operation, and what is source pollutants that enter waterways. The following eight required to bring them into compliance. key elements are used for evaluating Ag Performance Standards: Currently, many landowners are in the process of getting their cropland and/or facilities in compliance. To date, a  sheet, rill, and wind erosion, total of 17,422 cropland acres and 94 farms have been  manure storage facilities, certified compliant.

2016 FARMLAND PRESERVATION PROGRAM By Sheila Smith, Agronomist

T he Wisconsin Farmland Preservation Program (FPP) provides income tax credit to Wisconsin farmers in exchange for keeping land in agricultural use and maintaining compliance with the State Agricultural Performance Standards (NR151).

County wide, 80 landowners were certified in FPP for the 2015 tax year. Furthermore in 2015, 12,935 acres were certified which generated $97,013 in tax credits for those Winnebago County participants.

The Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department (LWCD) continues to assist participants in maintaining compliance with the State Ag-Performance Standards. Starting in the 2016 tax year, all Certificates of Compliance must have a Department of Revenue (DOR) approved number. This DOR number will be on the Certificate of Compliance that a participant receives at their Annual Certification appointment.

The Farmland Preservation Plan for Winnebago County is currently being written for 2018 and beyond.

Page 8 INFORMATION AND EDUCATION

By Melanie Leet, Conservation quality and the careers that Technician may be available to them in conservation. T he Winnebago County Land and Water LWCD staff also Conservation Department coordinated a spring and a (LWCD) staff works closely fall educational tour with with the farmers and students from Fox Valley landowners of Winnebago Technical College and a County to protect spring tour with students groundwater and surface from the University of water resources. A large component of preserving water resources is through education of not only the (below) Winneconne Career Day, (right) problems we are facing, Conservation Field Day but also how they can be prevented. The LWCD staff works with all ages and backgrounds to instill a conservation ethic and improve our water resources.

This year our department worked in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to put together an educational field day for Winneconne fourth grade students at the Norbert Rich School Forest. Four stations are set up to teach them about water quality, forestry, wildlife, and soils. Wisconsin Oshkosh (UWO). The students are educated These tours showed the about our natural students the various resources and what can be projects that LWCD done to help improve and installed and gave them an protect them. This hands idea of what careers may on experience continues to be available to them. By be one of our most popular meeting with different events with students and agencies and businesses, will hopefully continue to the students can decide on grow. a career area and focus their studies and course Our staff also had the selection. opportunity to work with middle school groups from The LWCD technical staff, Winneconne and Oshkosh along with the surrounding at two separate career counties technicians and days providing information the Department of on the importance of water Continued on page 10

Page 6 Page 9 Continued from page 9 Agriculture, Trade, and LWCD staff contributed to LWCD continues to be Consumer Protection numerous newspaper receptive to new (DATCP) Engineers, put articles, participated on opportunities for sharing together an informational several steering teams and information with the session for concrete work groups, and took part community. If you are contractors in the area to in other training and interested in learning more discuss the changes to the educational activities please contact our office to Wisconsin Concrete Spec. mentioned in other articles discuss how we can 4. The purpose was to in this report. participate. avoid problems by educating them on the new changes before construction season began. (top) Contractor Training, (middle left) FVTC Educational Tour, (middle-right) UWO Field Tour, (bottom-left & bottom-right) WI Woodland Owners The LWCD also provided Assoc. Conf. presentation information through staffed and unstaffed displays. These displays provided a great deal of information to the public that our department may not typically encounter. The department placed these displays at the Winnebago County Fair, Bird Fest, and the WPS Farm Show.

LWCD has also worked with various groups giving presentations on the importance of shoreline habitat buffers in protecting our lakes and river systems. Technical staff also worked closely with UWO as the students conducted a local study and generated a report on the City of Oshkosh and its shorelines. This study will work to justify the importance of shoreline habitat buffers and identify the challenges of implementation. LWCD also assisted UWO with the funding and planning for a shoreline habitat restoration project demo site on the Fox River adjacent to a heavily utilized recreational trail on campus.

Beyond these Information and Education activities,

Page 10 2016 INSTALLED BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

By Chad Casper, Resource Conservationist

livestock waste storage facility

Best Management Units Installed Practice

Access Road 468 lin. ft.

Critical Area Planting 8.1 acres

Fence 1,250 lin. ft.

Grassed Waterway 2,578 lin. ft.

Heavy Use Area Protection 1,000 sq. ft.

Lined Waterway or Outlet 55 lin. ft. grassed waterway with machinery crossing Livestock Pipline 2,216 lin. ft.

Pumping Plant 1 ea.

Stream Crossing 2 ea. Streambank/Shoreline 1,170 ft. Protection Underground Outlet 1,690 ft.

Waste Storage Facility 2 ea.

Waste Transfer System 1 ea.

Well Decommissioning 16 ea.

Wetland Restoration 4.8 acres wetland restoration

Page 11 JAMES P. COUGHLIN CENTER RAIN GARDEN DEMONSTRATION

By Chad Casper, Resource the educational project. with native plants. The goal rain gardens can coexist Conservationist and Melanie Leet, Conservation Technician The demonstration area is for the project was to within existing landscaping. approximately 5,000 display rain gardens and square feet and contains describe their benefits. It The project has been a I n the early summer of two rain gardens planted also demonstrates how success and couldn’t have 2016, the Winnebago happened without the help County Land and Water of all of the partners and Conservation Department, volunteers. On the day of Winnebago County UW- the planting we had over Extension, Winnebago 30 volunteers who County Facilities and dedicated their time to Property Management install nearly 1,100 Department, Master perennials and shrubs Gardeners, and the City of representing nearly 50 Oshkosh partnered to different varieties of plants. construct demonstration We will continue to add rain gardens with an plants as needed and upland natural planting educational signage will be outside of the James P. installed in 2017 for Coughlin (JPC) building. The visitors to learn about the JPC building has over project. The next time you 12,000 people annually are in Oshkosh stop by coming through its doors volunteers at the James P. Coughlin Center on planting day the JPC building and take which offers a great a look. opportunity to showcase

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

By Andy Maracini, GIS Specialist County has recently acquired LIDAR (Light I t has been said the one Detection and Ranging) constant is change and data and will begin using it that is certainly true when as part of our overall UAV/drone speaking of technology. design and construction Several technology trends activities in 2017. LIDAR and advancements that we data is highly accurate and have been following, and in will greatly improve our some cases, starting to ability to assess site implement are: LIDAR data, conditions, run computer/ mobile mapping, and GIS models, and design Unmanned Aerial Vehicle projects using AutoCAD. (UAV) mapping and Smartphones and tablets of choice for workers in the We have done a photography. Winnebago are now becoming the tool field. We have been testing considerable amount of a number of technologies research and believe this and have deployed an technology has numerous “app” that allows our applications in our work technicians to use a such as; construction smartphone or tablet in the monitoring, site

LIDAR image LIDAR field to map and document assessment, and field potential resource inspections. These are just concerns quickly and a few of the types of eliminate the need to technological transfer data or notes from advancements that we the field to the office. have been working on in Lastly, the use of UAVs or 2016 and look forward to drones has been a very continuing to explore as we active topic in agriculture. move forward into 2017.

Page 12 CATTLE WATERING SYSTEMS

By Michael Haase, Conservation pad with limestone Technician screenings to protect the area from getting muddy T his past year I from the extra cattle designed and oversaw the traffic. These systems installation of two cattle work well for the farmer watering systems. The who plans on rotationally systems have a two basin grazing their animals. waterer that is attached to Rotational grazing of cattle a plastic flexible hose that can be extremely runs underground from the conservation friendly as it well. The waterer has either decreases the cropping of a light bulb or some other fields which greatly electric heat source to reduces soil erosion. keep the water from Rotational grazing can also freezing in the winter eliminate manure handling allowing it to be utilized for the livestock owner. year round. The cattle These systems can be very quickly learn to push down cost effective and can help basic waterer setup to release the water for reduce time as well as drinking. The waterer is labor for small to medium surrounded by a concrete sized producers.

semi flexible pipe concrete pad with area elevated for waterer waterer on concrete pad for easy cleaning

TREE SALE

By Lynette Hein, Secretary A gain this year, the Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department (LWCD) held their annual distribution of trees and shrubs to aid landowners inside and outside of Winnebago County. The trees and shrubs arrived on April 21, 2016 through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Tree Program from their Griffith Nursery in Wisconsin Rapids.

In 2016, 13,625 trees and shrubs were planted by landowners in Winnebago County and 18,100 trees and shrubs were planted by landowners outside of Winnebago County. We had thirteen schools participate this year, all within the Menasha, Neenah, Omro and Oshkosh school districts. Students were given a total of 1,000 trees as part of observing Arbor Day.

The LWCD also offers many materials and tools to help landowners in the growth of their new seedlings. Root gel, fertilizer tablets, and 4 foot Tubex tree shelters are also available for purchase during the tree distribution day. Another service the LWCD offers is the rental of tree planters. The planters are used mostly by landowners that have large numbers of trees/shrubs. A “Tree Planting Workshop” held prior to tree delivery offers an opportunity for landowners to learn how to plant the trees with a planter or with a tree planting bar. All materials and equipment listed in this article are available throughout the year for purchase or rent and can be found on our website @ http://www.co.winnebago.wi.us/lwcd.

If you would like to take advantage of our tree distribution for 2018, please contact our office at the beginning of November-2017 for a 2018 Spring Tree and Shrub Application form.

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Winston Ogden, 2nd Place, Grades K-1, St. Gabriel Elementary

2017 POSTER CONTEST Marit Lettau, 1st Place, By Lynette Hein, Secretary Grades K-1, Individual Entry T he Winnebago County Land and Water Conservation Department (LWCD) held its "2017 Conservation Awareness Poster Contest" on December 1, 2016. Gretchen Strande, 3rd Place, This year’s theme was “HEALTHY SOILS ARE Grades K-1, St. Margaret Mary Elementary FULL OF LIFE!” and was open to Kindergarten through 12th Grade students. 158 posters were collected for this years contest with four posters continuing on to participate in the Lake Winnebago Land and Water Conservation Association’s (LWLWCA) Area Poster Contest. Esther Pingel, 3rd Place, Ramya Khelgi’s Grades 2-3, St. Gabriel Elementary poster (located in the Abigail McClone, 1st Place, Grades 2-3, St. Margaret Mary bottom right corner) competed in the Elementary Area Poster Contest in the Grades 4-6 group and won 1st Place. Ramya’s poster will continue on to compete at the Wisconsin Land+Water Annual Conference on March 16, 2017 at the state level.

The Winnebago County LWCD would like to extend our “congratulations” and “thanks” to all the students who participated in this year’s contest.

If you would like to participate in our next poster contest this coming fall, please contact our office in late August for this year’s theme. Greta Goethel, 2nd Place, Ramya Khelgi, 1st Place, Grades 2-3, St. Margaret Mary Elementary Grades 4-6, Clayton Elementary Continued on page 15

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Addison Cook, 3rd Place, Grades 4-6, Clayton Elementary

Samantha Hooyman, 2nd Place, Grades 4-6, Clayton Elementary

Ainsley Moore, 2nd Place, Grades 7-9, Trinity Lutheran School

Gretta Milos, 1st Place, Grades 7-9, Trinity Lutheran School

Isaac Klessig, 3rd Place, Grades 7-9, Trinity Lutheran School

(left to right) Addison Cook, Ramya Khelgi, and Ms. Wenig’s 5th Grade Class at Clayton Elementary School Samantha Hooyman holding prizes won from participating in the holding their posters and participation certificates Poster Contest

Page 15 NEW 2017 LAND ATLAS AND PLAT BOOK

By Andy Maracini, GIS Specialist T he LWCD has published an updated 2017 Land Atlas and Plat Book. The new plat book replaces the prior edition of the book which was published in 2012. The new plat book features updated aerial photography from 2015 as well as any land ownership changes that occurred from the last printing. The plat book was created completely in-house using ESRI GIS software and a variety of other standard desktop publishing software packages. The plat book may be purchased by visiting our office or by submitting an order request online at: https://www.co.winnebago.wi.us/lwcd/rental-and-sales. The cost is $34.00 excluding tax and any shipping charges.

Visit us on the Web at: http://www.co.winnebago.wi.us/lwcd

LAND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE STAFF DIRECTORY DIRECTORY Tom Davies, Director

Chuck Farrey, Chair Chad Casper, Resource MISSION STATEMENT Conservationist Tom Snider, Vice Chair

Winnebago County Land and Water Mike Haase, Conservation Technician Nancy Barker, Secretary Conservation Department Lynette Hein, Administrative Bruce Bohn, Citizen Member Associate Guy Hegg, County Board Member Providing a full range of professional Sheila Smith, Agronomist Larry Kriescher, County Board services in the planning, design, and Melanie Leet, Conservation Member performance of programs and projects Technician

Roger Zentner, FSA Member that PROTECT, RESTORE, and SUSTAIN Andy Maracini, GIS Specialist the natural resources of Winnebago County. The Winnebago County Land Conservation Committee (LCC) is a WINNEBAGO COUNTY standing committee of the Winnebago Land and Water Conservation Dept. County Board. Working through the Winnebago County Land and Water 625 E. County Rd. Y, Suite 100 Conservation Department, the LCC Oshkosh, WI 54901 provides local leadership and (920) 232-1950 establishes policies for the delivery of (920) 727-8642 land and water resource management Fax: (920) 424-1277 programs and services.

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