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Spring Lawn Care for Clean Water: 7 Tips
Spring is here and winter is behind us. Finally we are able to get outside and spend some time in the yard. Along with all the...
Apr 20, 20192 min read


Funding Available for Planting Trees!
Starting this year, funding is available for planting trees. New tree and shrub plantings of one acre or more on crop land may be...
Feb 1, 20191 min read


Scott SWCD Board Member Becomes Director of Area Association
In January, Scott Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) Supervisor Doug Schoenecker began his new role as Director of the...
Jan 30, 20191 min read


Award Given for Leadership in Conservation
Every year the Scott Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) honors a local organization or resident with the Conservation Leader...
Jan 15, 20192 min read


Landowners Helps Improve Water Quality by Reducing Erosion
[endif]--For years Jay and Laureen Picha of Shakopee had been keeping an eye on a section of streambank along Picha Creek that runs...
Dec 13, 20182 min read


Aerial Seeded Cover Crops Will Keep Soil from Eroding
684 acres of crop land in Scott County will be well protected against erosion this winter and spring thanks to the aerial seeding of...
Nov 29, 20182 min read


Elected Officials Learn about Conservation During Fall Tour
On September 24, elected officials climbed aboard a bus for the Annual Scott Watershed Management Organization and Soil and Water...
Nov 8, 20181 min read


Keep Leaves out of Gutters for Water Quality
As everyone knows, when those orange leaves are falling to the ground, they land where they will: the deck, the street, the lake, the...
Oct 26, 20182 min read


Students Learn about Conservation at Outdoor Education Days
Mid-September’s cool, wet weather did not stop students from coming out for a field trip at Cedar Lake Farm Park for Scott Soil and Water...
Oct 16, 20181 min read


You Can Help Spread Monarch Habitat
Minnesota Native Landscapes have begun their Milkweed for Monarchs Collection. Anyone can donate milkweed seedpods they collect to MNL,...
Sep 18, 20181 min read
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