Any Minnesota Climate Land Leaders going to this rally Feb. 17 at the Minnesota legislature on protecting water and wild rice? Our Wild Rice Advocate Leanna Goose (Ojibwe) and I (Teresa) will be there. Let me know if you can join us.
Congratulations to Bernadine Joselyn (MN), who was featured in the attached article about the conservation easement her family has on her land.
From Kriss Marion (WI):
Grazing and Soil Health Summit scholarships available for women, The Summit is March 3-4 in Willmar, MN; the deadline for applying for the scholarships is Feb 11.
From Angela Smith Harris (MN/IA):
–Voluntary farm practices to prevent water pollution in Iowa may not be sticking.
–A song about water quality.
From Sylva Spalding (HI/IA):
Iowaville: Artifacts and life from the Ioway.
From Teresa Peterson (Dakota/Minnesota):
Grief at the wrongness in the world.
From Sarah Hunt (MN):
A fun and informative infographic that illustrates how the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate smart funding dramatically changed which EQIP practices are the top funded in the Midwest. In states such as Illinois, practices on the climate smart list rose in the rankings while practices related to drainage and industrial-scale manure management fell.
From Teresa Opheim (MN):
–The intersection between climate change, food systems, and human rights.
–Fear over farmland loss is slowing renewable energy developing in rural areas.