Students Fill Gap in Red Cedar Watershed Monitoring

Abstract

With a grant from the Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, three undergraduates from UW-Stout were trained to collect and analyze water samples as part of renewed efforts to monitor restoration efforts in the Red Cedar Basin Watershed, which has high levels of phosphorus pollution. The project brings together UW-Stout faculty from biology and applied social science as well as external partners like the City of Menomonie, Dunn County Land and Water Conservation, and the Red Cedar River Watershed Division of UW-Extension.