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W E E K L Y  U P D A T E  October 13th, 2020
 
In this Week's Issue:
NEMWI To Host Webinar on Invasive Asian Carp and the Great Lakes
NEMWI Releases Congressional Fact Sheet on Watershed Conservation
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NEMWI To Host Webinar on Invasive Asian Carp and the Great Lakes  

Please join key Great Lakes organizations for a webinar update about current activities aimed at preventing the transfer of Asian silver and bighead carp from the Mississippi River Basin to the Great Lakes. The webinar/briefing will be on Wednesday, October 14 at 2 PM ET. You can RSVP here. 

The webinar will focus on the ongoing activities to prevent the introduction of Asian carp into the Great Lakes and future actions that need to be taken.  The webinar will also include a short film produced by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) focused on the various impacts that invasive Asian carp pose to tribal, business, fishing, and economic interests, as well as to the quality of life - not only in the Great Lakes, but throughout the Mississippi River Basin. This video is a segment of a larger film that will be released October 15th. 

Participating organizations include: 
  • The Northeast-Midwest Institute  
  • The National Wildlife Federation 
  • The Alliance for the Great Lakes 
  • The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus 
  • The Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Again, to register for the webinar, please click here.
NEMWI Releases Congressional Fact Sheet on Watershed Conservation
 
NEMWI has released to Congressional Offices a Fact Sheet on Watershed Conservation as a follow-up to the research reports on watershed conservation effectiveness which were released on September 30 and are available on NEMWI's website at here.
 
The research reports focus on eight watersheds selected to each fall in a different Congressional District.  They provide compelling support for the effectiveness of conservation programs, with the data demonstrating that employing conservation practices upstream reduces the flow of nutrients into freshwater and so both protects agricultural land and improves water quality.
 
This new Fact Sheet on Watershed Conservation highlights NEMWI's findings on the effectiveness of watershed conservation, in particular crop cover with rye, in eight watersheds in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.  
 
As the Fact Sheet states, this new research supports policy- making that continues and strengthens conservation programs, including federal programs to incentivize farmers to implement effective conservation programs.  Both continued and increased appropriations for conservation, and also other legislation to authorize future conservation programs, are supported by this research.
 
The Congressional Fact Sheet on Watershed Conservation can be viewed here.
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This Week in Washington

In the House:

No relevant Senate hearings or meetings this week as the Senate focuses on Supreme Court nomination hearings.

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