The Lake Wissota Stewardship Project is a partnership between the Lake Wissota Association and the Land Conservation and Forest Management Department of Chippewa County, dedicated to supporting landowners in land and watershed conservation efforts through community engagement, education, and proactive environmental stewardship. Our areas of work include Lake Wissota as well as the Yellow River Watershed, Moon Bay, and Little Lake Wissota.

 

We encourage landowners in the watershed to continue to reduce runoff of nutrients into the lake by installing stream buffers, sediment basins, and other conservation practices on the land. Our recent emphasis has been planting cover crops—a farming practice that protects ground and surface water, improves soil quality, and reduces fertilizer costs—and monitoring the quality of streams entering the lake.