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The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced additional funding to address conservation needs in the Driftless Area Landscape Conservation Initiative Area. The focus will be to reduce soil erosion and improve fish and wildlife habitat on cold water streams, working lands, woodlands, and prairies.

“The Driftless Area is such a unique landscape, having been by-passed by the glaciers of the last Ice Age,” says Jason Thomas, NRCS District Conservationist for Green County. “However, our steep topography leaves it especially vulnerable to soil...