Green Lands Blue Waters - Working toward Continuous Living Cover on Midwestern Farmlands

Green Lands Blue Waters (GLBW) was formed in 2004 by representatives of land grant universities and key agricultural and environmental organizations – listed below.   This organization includes partners from the same four-state area as LWV UMRR - Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.  

The Mission of Green Lands Blue Waters is "to support the development of and transition to a new generation of multi-functional agricultural systems in the Upper Mississippi River Basin and adjacent areas that integrate more perennial plants and other Continuous Living Cover into the agricultural landscape." 

The Green Lands Blue Waters Conference was held in Minneapolis on November 19-20.  We will share highlights from that conference when the videos and related materials are made available online.  

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GLBW Founding Partners:

• Agricultural Watershed Institute                                                                   Audubon Society
• Illinois Stewardship Alliance                                                                             Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Iowa Farmers Union                                                                                              Iowa Soybean Association
• Izaak Walton League of America                                                                    Land Stewardship Project
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University
• Louisiana State University                                                                                 Minnesota Farmers Union
• Practical Farmers of Iowa                                                                                  Rural Advantage
• Southwest Badger Resource Conservation & Development Council
• The Land Institute                                                                                                 The Nature Conservancy
• Trout Unlimited                                                                                                        University of Illinois
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities                                                          University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Wisconsin Farmers Union