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Cook County Soil and Water Supervisor District 1

SWCDs are local units of government that manage and direct natural resource management programs. Districts work in both urban and rural settings, with landowners and with other units of government, to carry out actions for the conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources. They are subject to state statutes and rules as a public body.

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    Gregg Westigard
    (NP)

Biographical Information

Why are you the best candidate for this position? (750 characters)

If elected, what will your top three priorities be and why? (500 characters)

How is this office important to constituents? Please provide details of any plans for improvement. (500 characters)

How should this office provide oversight for how climate change is affecting our community watersheds, and what can be done to prevent adverse effects on local communities? (500 characters)

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Contact Phone 715-472-8302
Campaign Email greggw@boreal.org
We pass through the land. Helping conserve the area is our duty. Half of the Minnesota Lake Superior North Shore is in Cook County. That shore seems solid where the rocks have met the waves for ages but but the edge there is a fragile vegetation line. Part of my caring is familiarity with this special part of the land and the folks who live here.
The land is seeing a change in use as more folks, once summer visitors, are living here year round. That places new demands on the land. We need an awareness before we lose our fragile lakes and shores. Also helping reforestation and forest protection, connecting the folks and their parcels of land so they can work together, collaborate. Just in the West End, seven miles of Schroeder shoreline along Lake Superior, there is one continuous forest and over 118 parcels.
Soil and Water is the body that can bring help to individuals who care about the land they share. We need to let folks know that S&W is there to work with them to conserve our area.
Increased use of our land removes some of the natural protection, trees and soil, that has been a buffer for ages. Much of our land is a shallow fragile layer over the ancient rocks. Soil and Water collaborates with other partners, working together as we pass through the land that we share with the rest of nature. The land was here before humans came. It will be were when we pass on.
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