On September 4, the tour included visits to the Great Lakes Agricultural Research Service in Delavan, the Greendale Farm near Fond du Lac, which is an NRCS demo farm, and Coloma Farms in Coloma, which grows many vegetable and root crops, but primarily potatoes. On September 5, the group toured Wetherby Cranberry marsh in Warrens, the University of Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station in Black River Falls, and Winfield United’s Innovation Center in River Falls. Winfield’s work on drift reduction adjuvants (DRAs) contributed to DRAs being included as an ESA mitigation option in the EPA’s Final Herbicide Strategy (released on August 30).
“The EPA will be hosting the ESA webinar and will record the event so that we can put it on our WSSA website,” says Dahl. “We’re very much looking forward to sharing with everyone what we discussed and learned on the field tours in regards to ESA compliance and mitigations.”
To join the webinar on Nov. 4, at noon EST, visit this this virtual meeting weblink. The webinar’s goal is to train the public on best practices and technologies to preserve critical habitats for endangered species. To listen to the webinar recording after the event, select this WSSA webpage link.
To learn more about WSSA and its Endangered Species work, visit: https://wssa.net/endangered-species/.
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