Mike Erwin, Badger Creek Lake watershed project coordinator, can help landowners
Armstongs working to protect Badger Creek Lake
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For brothers Tim and Neil Armstrong, saving soil and protecting water is both a family tradition
and a responsibility.
Like many other farmers in the Badger Creek Lake watershed, their family built some conservation
practices without cost-share funding. |
"It was just because they needed to be there," said Neil, who farms his grandfather's land.
"It was the right thing to do."
Conservation has been the right thing to do in the Armstrong family for years. Grandfather
John was chairman of the first Badger Creek watershed committee. He also served as a commissioner of the
Madison County Soil and Water Conservation District, a position later held by his son, Gene, and grandson Tim,
currently a commissioner.
"Being a commissioner gives me a better opportunity to work with landowners and protect the watershed,"
said Tim, a contractor who builds terraces, ponds and other conservation practices.
"If we don't take care of the land, who's going to? It's a family tradition, a family obligation.
I owe it to my grandfather to protect that."
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Mike Erwin, Badger Creek Lake watershed project coordinator, can help landowners
Mike Erwin, Badger Creek Lake watershed project coordinator, can help landowners install conservation practices to help preserve the lake for future generations.
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