What YOU can do to protect the Lake Champlain Basin

This webinar, organized in partnership Friends of Northern Lake Champlain and Franklin County Natural Resources Conservation District, features presentations from Deb Neher (UVM) and Brian Jerose (Agrilab Technologies Inc.).

Listen in as we explore the connections between soil health and water quality, and best management practices for erosion control and revegetation in yards, fields, on banks and hillsides, and in road-side ditches.

Video time stamps:

  • 0:00-5:06 Introduction to Soil Builders Program (Natasha Duarte)

  • 5:06-21:13 Linkages between soil health and water quality (Deb Neher):

  • 21:13-1:02:15 Impacts of land use on watershed function and what can be done (Brian Jerose)

  • 1:02:15-1:06:10 Comments from Kent Henderson and Lauren Weston

  • 1:06:10-1:29:10 Discussion

Learn more about watershed groups in Vermont:

More about Natural Resources Conservation Districts in Vermont

Vermont’s 14 Natural Resources Conservation Districts (NRCDs) act as local facilitators linking and providing landowners and agricultural producers with technical, financial, and educational assistance for working with state and federal programs that can help them meet with management and conservation objectives. NRCDs coordinate agricultural and natural resource management projects, and conduct workshops providing educational information on many related topics. NRCD assistance is available to all landowners at no cost. 

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