Efforts to keep livestock waste and farm chemicals out of the Big Sioux River and its tributaries along the eastern edge of South Dakota include asking farmers to leave the land alongside river and stream banks untouched through most of the year.
Grass grows along the banks of Skunk Creek in this pasture west of Dell Rapids, S.D. It looks different from the muddy banks when it became the first land enrolled in the Seasonal Riparian Area Management program in 2013.
Barry Berg, senior watershed project coordinator with the East Dakota Water Development District, gives and update on the Seasonal Riparian Area Management project during the Big Sioux Stewardship Summit in Sioux Falls April 17.
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Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.
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