The Nature Conservancy Wabash River Floodplain Restoration Project

The Nature Conservancy has worked for decades to protect water quality in the Wabash River, a critical tributary of the Mississippi River Basin and a resource for drinking water, agriculture, industry and wildlife. Reducing nutrient runoff along the Wabash is part of the Conservancy’s system-wide strategy to improve water quality throughout the 31-state Mississippi River Basin and reduce excessive nutrient pollution that causes the Gulf of Mexico dead zone each year. With generous support from Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, the Conservancy has expanded its work along the Wabash and throughout the Mississippi River Basin to achieve a healthy source of clean water for both people and nature. Purina’s support is helping the Conservancy to: • Enact a system-wide approach to help reduce nutrient runoff — primarily nitrogen and phosphorus — into the Mississippi River Basin, • Work with private agricultural landowners to restore at least 150 acres of critical floodplain to wetlands and woodlands in key locations along the Wabash River, and • Assist participating landowners to enroll 2,000 acres of croplands in the Fieldprint® Calculator.

Complete
Incubation

Engagement Targets

Notes: (1) I Minor fluctuations in the number of retained growers is expected from year to year. These fluctuations may be due to year-over-year crop rotation effects or other factors beyond the control of the project. Enrolled acres represent the total number of acres on an individual farm in a specific year. The ability to report enrolled acres is based on the Fieldprint Project Standard requirement that individual growers enrolled in projects enter at least 10% of the acres managed for a specific crop. (2) Entered acres represent the actual number of enrolled acres for which data is entered in the Fieldprint Platform for analysis.

Objectives

Enact a system-wide approach to help reduce nutrient runoff — primarily nitrogen and phosphorus — into the Mississippi River Basin.
Work with private agricultural landowners to restore at least 150 acres of critical floodplain to wetlands and woodlands in key locations along the Wabash River, and
Assist participating landowners to enroll 2,000 acres of croplands in the Fieldprint® Calculator.

Participants

Project Lead Organization(s)
Nestle Purina PetCare Company (Full)
The Nature Conservancy (Full)

Project Details

Status
Complete
Pathway
Incubation
Natural Resource Concern
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