First Watershed Traditional Cache
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This is by a roadside marker indicating the site of the Nation's First Watershed Project. You are looking for a small camo'ed water bottle container. This wayside has picnic table and is a good place to get out and stretch your legs.
I would not call this a Park n Grab. You might get a little dirty looking for the cache but it should not take too long to find it.
Nation's First Watershed Project
This point is near the center of the 90,000 acre Coon Creek Watershed, The nation's first large-scale demonstration of soil and water conservation. The area was selected by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (then Soil Erosion Service) in October 1933.
Technicians of the S.C.S. and the University of Wisconsin pooled their knowledge with he experiences of local farm leaders to establish a pattern of land use now prevalent throughout the Midwest. Planned practices in effect include improvement of woodlands, wildlife habitat and pastures, better rotations and fertilization, strip cropping, terracing, and gully and stream bank erosion control.
The outcome is a tribute to the wisdom, courage and foresight of the farm families who adopted the modern methods of conversation farming illustrated here.
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Cerggl zhpu yrsg bhg va cynva fvtug oruvaq n gerr.
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