(Oakland, IA) — An Iowa conservation organization based in Pottawattamie County is asking for landowners’ help in improving water quality and reducing soil erosion. Golden Hills RC&D received funding from the Regional Conservation Partnership Program for the West Nishnabotna Water Quality and Infrastructure Partnership. The project aims to improve water quality, increase flood resiliency, and protect local infrastructure across a 681,000-acre project area in southwestern Iowa.

The project will complement similar activity on private lands in service of making the landscape more resilient in the face of increasing catastrophic flooding events. The partnership will report project outcomes through monitoring and modeling of soil and nutrient loss reductions.

Golden Hills RC&D has released a survey for rural property owners in Southwest Iowa. The brief questionnaire asks about conservation practices and related initiatives.

The organization says the goal is to better understand how familiar landowners are with these practices. The survey is also issued as part of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program and the Underserved Farmer to Farmer program. Golden Hills also says it will improve outreach efforts about cost-sharing programs.

For more information, or to fill-out the survey, go to:

https://www.goldenhillsrcd.org/rcpp.html