Badger Creek Lake Watershed Project

Badger Creek Lake Watershed Project The goal of the Badger Creek Lake Watershed Project is to improve the lake's water quality by working together to reduce sediment and phosphorus loading.

Badger Creek Lake is located in Madison County, approximately 4 miles southwest of Booneville, Iowa. Badger Creek Lake was constructed in 1980 as one of many flood control structures in the Badger Creek Watershed in Madison, Dallas, and Warren Counties. Currently, the lake and surrounding land is managed by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources as a State Recreation Area and a Wildlife Manageme

nt Area. Badger Creek Lake was added to Iowa's impaired waterways list in 1998 due to excessive sediment and phosphorus loading; the watershed project was initiated to address the impairments and improve water quality in the lake. The watershed project is supported by a grant through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act (administered by the EPA), the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) - Division of Soil Conservation (DSC), the Madison and Dallas Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The supporting agencies and organization have made this project possible, but our most important partners in this project are the landowners, residents, and tenants in the watershed. By working together, we can improve both the water AND land in the Badger Creek Lake Watershed! Contact Anna MacDonald at the Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District for more information!

07/19/2024

🌻 While not directly related to the watershed project, the sunflowers at the Badger Creek Wildlife Management Area ARE incredibly popular, so check out this info from the Iowa DNR 🌻

Help clean up Badger Creek State Recreation Area on Saturday, September 25th!
09/16/2021

Help clean up Badger Creek State Recreation Area on Saturday, September 25th!

07/16/2021

Ready to go sunflower seeking? 🌻 Be prepared - your favorite spot may have moved!

Sunflower plots are often rotated each year (and that includes the well-known field at Badger Creek State Rec Area this year). This is part of the maintenance of these fields as food plots for dove hunting season.

Starting ***August 1*** you can find pinned map locations for access points to sunflower plots at iowadnr.gov/doves.

If you love making summer visits to the sunflowers, consider purchasing your habitat fee, even if you're not a hunter! Funds from the habitat fee help pay for the planting of these fields, which take a lot of staff time and effort to plant and develop.

Happy exploring!

📷: Ruth Hummel

12/15/2020

The recent blast of arctic air is growing ice on lakes and ponds over much of Iowa. Anglers are ready to get out for the popular early ice fishing season.

10/20/2020

The Clean Water in Iowa Starts Here tour visited Fred Martens’ farm in Madison County. The stop, hosted by Heartland Co-op, highlighted his CREP wetland and the no-till and nutrient management practices at work on the family’s farm. This event is the first opportunity for the Iowa agriculture co...

Did you know... One of Iowa's 90+ CREP wetlands was built in Badger Creek Lake Watershed. Find out about the good thing...
06/24/2020

Did you know... One of Iowa's 90+ CREP wetlands was built in Badger Creek Lake Watershed. Find out about the good things it's doing during today's Iowa Learning Farms webinar at noon!

Iowa Learning Farms will host a webinar on Wednesday, June 24 at noon about the potential targeted wetland restorations have to reduce agricultural nutrient loads. William Crumpton speaks to a wate…

For , here's a short video of our soil scientist pointing out some indicators in a cover crop field in Badger Creek L...
06/19/2020

For , here's a short video of our soil scientist pointing out some indicators in a cover crop field in Badger Creek Lake Watershed earlier this spring:

For Iowa Soil Health Day, we're sharing a video from earlier this spring, when Julie McMichael, NRCS Area Resource Soil Scientist for the Iowa SW Area, point...

This will be a great virtual field day!
06/19/2020

This will be a great virtual field day!

Iowa Learning Farms, in partnership with the Iowa Nutrient Research Center, Practical Farmers of Iowa and Conservation Learning Group, is hosting a free virtual cover crop field day on Thursday, Ju…

06/09/2020

"Soil Conversation" is a comic strip that ran in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation between 1955 and 1967. The creator was USDA artist Felix Summers, whose one-panel strip often showed two crows commenting on a farmer's conservation practices, or lack thereof, and how they impacted the community. In honor of the SWCS 75th anniversary we are publishing classic "Soil Conversation" strips every week throughout the year! Let's see what's going on this week...

Source: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 14, No. 2 (March, 1959), 80. SWCS archives.

Wow, look at the difference between the subwatershed with some best management practices vs. the subwatershed with BMPs ...
06/05/2020

Wow, look at the difference between the subwatershed with some best management practices vs. the subwatershed with BMPs over the majority of the area!

The lessons learned about the value of stacking BMPs can apply to other watersheds, too!

Iowa Learning Farms hosted a webinar on Wednesday about the results of a long-term catchment-scale monitoring project in the Black Hawk Lake watershed. Michelle Soupir, Associate Professor at …

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