Baird Creek Riparian Protection Project
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Purpose

This project will focus on Buffer Strip installation in key sections of Baird Creek watershed to reduce agriculture nutrient, sediment and pesticide loading to Baird Creek and ultimately the Lower Fox River and Bay of Green Bay. The project will enhance and protect critical wetland habitat in an area of Northeast Wisconsin that contains one of the highest remaining blocks of wetlands. Brown County will partner with the Baird Creek Preservation Foundation to improve local and state water quality goals, educate local officials and citizens regarding the simplicity and effectiveness of buffer strips and develop a adopt a stream monitoring by private citizens of the Baird Creek Preservation Foundation.

Objective

To focus on Buffer Strip installation in key sections of Baird Creek watershed to reduce agriculture nutrient, sediment & pesticide loading to Baird Creek & ultimately the Lower Fox River & Bay of Green Bay.

Outcome

During 2004, the Lake Michigan Forum, a committee of the public stakeholders providing input to US. EPA on the Lake Michigan Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP), conducted an assessment of environmental stewardship in the Baird Creek watershed (Baird Creek Watershed Stewardship Assessment November 2004, Lake Michigan Forum, Delta Institute). The stewardship assessment was aimed at identifying opportunities for increasing environmental stewardship among decision makers and the general public in the watershed community. Working closely with many local partners in the Baird Creek watershed, the Lake Michigan Forum conducted a literature review, gathered existing environmental information and interviewed dozens of individuals living and working in the Baird Creek.

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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Nearshore Health and NPS
GLRI_00E00441-BrownCounty_10
2010
Active
 
Reports and Documents
Brown County Land and Water Cons 2011 annual report 2012 annual work plan
Progress on projects by BCLWCD - includes Baird Creek and West Shore Northern Pike
Baird Creek Riparian Protection, GLRI preproposal, Haf
 
Activities & Recommendations
Control Streambank Erosion
Buffer Strip installation in key sections of Baird Creek watershed to reduce agriculture nutrient, sediment and pesticide loading to Baird Creek & ultimately the Lower Fox River & Bay of Green Bay.
Grant Awarded
Buffer Strip installation in key sections of Baird Creek (118100)
 
Watershed
East River
 
Waters
Baird Creek
Monitoring Data