Lower Minnesota Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) Civic Engagement - North

The project will plan, implement, and report on a community engagement strategy for identifying community/landowner opportunities, obstacles, and opinions on land management and water quality that will result in the identification of Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies (WRAPS) input for the Sibley, Nicollet, Renville, McLeod, Rice, and Le Sueur County areas of the Lower Minnesota River watershed. Contract participants will gather, compile and analyze information by interactions (surveys, interviews and outreach events) with watershed citizens, landowners, policy makers, and other groups or individuals as necessary to identify land management options and water quality restoration and protection strategies.