"The Official Web Site of Waushara
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LAND CONSERVATION
Click here to enter the Waushara County Shoreline Restoration Web Site Mission Statement: The Waushara County Land Conservation Department is a subdivision of county government established under chapter 92, Wisconsin statutes. The department works under the direction of the Land Conservation Committee and coordinates natural resource management, environmental enhancement activities within county boundaries and administers a variety of county, state, and federal initiatives. It cooperates with and furnishes financial, technical and planning assistance to agencies, units of government, organizations and individuals. The department places particular emphasis on soil conservation, water quality improvement, groundwater protection, nonpoint water pollution abatement, erosion control, wildlife habitat improvement, farmland preservation and animal waste management. The department strives to promote the awareness of natural resources and their value to the citizens of WausharaTo find out more about
Land Conservation, click on the information below: ·
Summary
And Brief Descriptions Of Major Programs All of the following document links require that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader software..... Annual
Report SUMMARY
AND BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF MAJOR PROGRAMS
The
Pine
This
plan was written in 1999 and revised in 2005 in
response to a legislative call to redesign Working
Lands Initiative (formerly the Farmland
Preservation Program)
Although the Waushara
County Land Conservation Department will continue to work with farmers who have
an active contract in the old Farmland Preservation Program to ensure the lands
under the program conform to state performance standards, once these contracts
expire this program will cease to exist in Waushara County and the State of
Wisconsin. Replacing the program is
a new state program called the Working Lands Initiative (WLI). Under WLI, groups of
farmers can request their lands be designated as an agricultural enterprise area
(AEA). Once designated, these areas
enable eligible farmers to enter into a farmland preservation agreement with the
state to claim a farmland preservation tax credit.
The state may designate a maximum of 15 AEAs, or 200,000 acres by January
1, 2012, and one million acres statewide after January 1, 2012. To receive designation, a
petition must be jointly filed by at least five eligible farmers in the proposed
AEA, and by each County, town or municipality in which any part of the proposed
AEA is located. If the petition is
selected by the Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection
through a competitive evaluation process, the area must be officially designated
through Prior to submitting a
petition, farmers are asked to contact Coreen Fallat at Coreen.Fallat@wisconsin.gov
or call (608)224-4625 for additional guidance.
Interested parties must
complete the petition form available on the Department of Agriculture, Trade,
and Consumer Protection web site at http://workinglands.wi.gov There is no minimum acreage requirement for submitting a petition, although the state will give preference to areas that are at least 1,000 acres. Construction
Site Erosion Control / Stormwater Management Assistance Land
Conservation Department staff currently assist individual landowners and the
Zoning Office in providing erosion control and stormwater
Formed
in 1995, this cooperative venture of the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers
Assoc.; vegetable processing industry; Land Conservation Committees of Adams, Juneau, Portage, Waushara, Wood, and working with Marathon,
Marquette and Waupaca Counties; the Wisconsin Dept. of
Information
& Education Land
Conservation Staff work with schools, camps, lake associations, groups &
organizations, and individual property owners in teaching land and water
stewardship, and conservation education in general.
An annual event involving local school children is
the Conservation Poster Contest, winners from the local contest
proceeding to the district and state contests.
The Land Conservation Department also provides a scholarship each year
for a student to attend Conservation Camp.
Another fairly new event is the Conservation Field Day, a day of
environmental learning for area fifth graders provided in cooperation with
UW-Extension, Dept. of Natural Resources, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation
Service. In-school Groundwater
Education is being administered by the Golden Sands Resource and Development and
funded by the Land Conservation Department.
Through an Aquatic Invasive Species Grant riparian owners are being
trained to complete lake studies, run Clean Boats, Clean Waters programs, and
organize efforts to accomplish eradication of invasive species on all
The Wisconsin Wildlife Damage Abatement and Claims Program (WDACP) assists farmers when they incur wildlife damage to their agricultural crops. The program provides damage prevention assistance and partial compensation when wild deer, bear, geese and turkey damage farmers' agricultural crops. Wildlife managers issue agricultural damage shooting permits to farmers for removal of deer (and occasionally bear, geese and turkey) that cause damage. Contact
Barry Benson with USDA at 1-800-433-0663 for more information or to participate
in the program.
The
Land Conservation Committee Administers the Gypsy Moth Suppression Program
organized by the Department of Natural Resources.
The program provides the public with a safe, effective, and affordable
means to treat gypsy moth outbreaks. This
voluntary program is offered to landowners and municipal government through To
request additional information or report a gypsy moth problem in your area, call
the local coordinator, Mark Schumacher at 920-787-0453 or the toll-free
statewide gypsy moth information line at 1-800-642-MOTH (6684)
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