Glacial Hills Resource Conservation & Development Region, Inc.

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KAWS

www.kaws.org

The Glacial Hills Chapter of the Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams serves as a clearinghouse for wetlands and riparian areas information and activities, promotes educational opportunities with a variety of targeted audiences, and facilitates project implementation for wetland and riparian area projects within the participating counties of Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leavenworth, and Nemaha.

The projects completed during the past year came to a total cost of $109,000. Cost-share grant funds of $71,447 was provided to landowners to reduce their project costs. A total of $37,500 was then paid by landowners as local matching funds. The natural resource protection projects provide cost-share funds for stream stabilization; riparian buffers; wetland development or restoration; alternate livestock water supplies; and fencing to relocate livestock facilities from riparian areas.

The KAWS vision of a public that is well informed and involved in activities that foster the protection, enhancement, and establishment of wetlands and riparian areas in Kansas is accomplished through each of 12 local chapters across the state that work through a locally-led group to identify, rank and match their projects to available funding, and then work to implement them. These projects provide many water quality and wildlife habitat benefits from the implementation of the best management practices that are applied. All projects are used as demonstrations that serve to educate the public about the options available to treat and protect many natural resource concerns.

Our rivers, streams and riparian areas are an important part of our landscape. We cannot survive without clean water and healthy streams. Our streams and riparian areas provide drinking water for humans and livestock, aquatic and terrestrial habitat, aesthetic values, and recreational areas. This chapter and its projects provide an avenue to meet water quality standards, provide habitat needs of wildlife, and implement other environmental opportunities that challenge all of us. Everyone is responsible for the wise use and management of these natural resources.

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Northeast Kansas offers an abundance of opportunities for hunting and fishing.

Public fishing locations abound in our corner of the state.

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