Fishers & Farmers Partnership
for the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Fishers & Farmers Partnership has answered a national call to improve U.S. waters and fisheries through the National Fish Habitat Action Plan - visit the website!

As a candidate partnership, we are formalizing our organizational structure, conducting a basin assessment, and writing the strategic plan required to apply for full partnership status. We expect to submit our application in 2010. During our initial planning steps, this site is primarily intended to provide access to partnership documents.

Fishers & Farmers Partnership for the Upper Mississippi River Basin advances long-term strategies for stream health and sustainable agriculture.

Clean water is essential for the health, quality of life, and prosperity of each person in the Mississippi River Basin. Likewise, the health of every organism and stream on the river, from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, depends upon a clean flow of water.

Our vision rests on a belief that the combined experience, knowledge and skills of fishers and farmers can measurably improve the health of land and streams in the altered landscape of the Upper Mississippi River Basin. To advance this purpose, rural landowners voluntarily develop and implement science=based solutions to local water quality issues, with the support of conservationists. As landowners achieve their own goals for conservation and sustainable prosperity, successful practices will be demonstrated and effects measured, lessons will be learned and shared throughout the basin, and ultimately a globally significant landscape will be renewed.

We support local actions throughout the Upper Mississippi River Basin.