The UW-Extension Basin Education Initiative with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources designs and delivers educational programs, assists organizations, and builds partnerships to promote understanding and stewardship of Wisconsin's natural resources at the watershed and landscape scale.
Wisconsin's Basin Education Initiative works toward a notion advanced by Aldo Leopold more than 50 years ago. The idea holds that a true conservation ethic will evolve only when citizens, not just government alone, take responsibility for managing and protecting our lands and waters. "We need knowledge," Leopold wrote, "public awareness of the small cogs and wheels" of the natural world.
