A Lone Star Healthy Streams workshop will be held June 1 at the Texas Agricultural Education and Heritage Center, 390 Cordova Road, Seguin.
The workshop is a joint effort by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
The program is hosted by and will focus on the Plum Creek Watershed, the Geronimo and Alligator Creeks Watershed, and the Mid and Lower Cibolo Creek Watershed.
The free program will run from 8 a.m.-1 p.m., with an optional pork steak lunch for $15 payable at registration. Preregistration is required at https://tx.ag/LSHSSeguinJun1.
“The goal of the Lone Star Healthy Streams program is to educate Texas livestock producers and landowners about how to best protect Texas waterways from bacterial contamination associated with beef cattle, sheep, goats and feral hogs,” said Leanne Wiley, AgriLife Extension program specialist and Lone Star Healthy Streams instructor, Bryan-College Station.
Two Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education credits in integrated pest management are available for pesticide applicators.
Multi-watershed partnership
The multi-watershed program will identify issues common to the watersheds. All three of the watersheds are impaired for contact recreation due to elevated bacteria concentrations.
The goal of all three watersheds is to improve and protect water quality in these creeks for present and future generations of Texans, said Wiley.
Community members in each of the watersheds have developed Watershed Protection Plans that contain voluntary measures to reduce pollution from entering the creeks. To learn more about each partnership’s implementation efforts and to download a digital copy of each Watershed Protection Plan, visit the watersheds’ websites.
Funding for this effort is provided through a Clean Water Act Section 319 nonpoint source grant administered by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For more information on the workshop, contact Wiley at 979-318-2617 or leanne.wiley@ag.tamu.edu; Christina Lopez with Plum Creek at 830-557-7358 or clopez@plumcreekwatershed.org; Evgenia Spears with Geronimo and Alligator creeks at 979-845-2862 or geronimo.alligator@ag.tamu.edu; or Ward Ling with Lower Cibolo Creek at 979-314-2472 or ward.ling@ag.tamu.edu.
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