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RESTORING & ENHANCING NATURAL LANDSCAPES WITH ALUS
from County Connections
Sturgeon County’s ALUS program supports farmers and ranchers by helping support projects that produce ecosystem services – like wetlands, restored tallgrass prairie and eco-buffers – on their land.
The program was launched in summer 2021, and provides annual payments for the management and maintenance of these important projects. Projects can include livestock watering systems, exclusion fencing for waterbodies, planting shelterbelts or eco-buffers, reforestation, pollinator planting areas, erosion control, fencing and watering systems for adaptive-multi paddock grazing, or installing bird nests or other habitat features.
Sturgeon County’s ALUS program aims to value, protect and promote both the agricultural community and the region’s unique and precious natural environment through the implementation of on-the-ground projects that rebuild, retain, and reconstruct natural areas such as wetlands, grasslands, riparian and treed areas.
In every ALUS community, staff works closely with landowners to develop and support projects that are best suited to local needs and priorities, and the ALUS Sturgeon Program Coordinator works with farmers and ranchers to help establish these projects. Through the ALUS projects, ALUS Sturgeon participants help produce cleaner water, cleaner air, and more biodiversity including pollinator habitat, for the benefit of everyone in the community.
If you are a farmer or rancher in Sturgeon County and are interested in ALUS Sturgeon, contact the Conservation Program Coordinator at 587-570-8712
