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The Lower Chippewa River Basin
The Lower Chippewa River Basin is located in West Central Wisconsin. The basin includes all of Barron, Dunn, Chippewa, Eau Claire, Pierce and Pepin counties and portions of nine others. The 24 watersheds of the Lower Chippewa River Basin encompass about 5,300 square miles. All rivers and streams that drain into the Chippewa River below the Holcombe flowage dam in northern Chippewa county are part of the basin. Major tributaries include the Eau Claire River and the Red Cedar River. Also included in this basin are the Rush River, Isabella Creek, the Trimbelle River, and their tributaries, all of which flow into the Mississippi.
Wisconsin Basin Partnerships
In 1997 the Department of Natural Resources restructured its field offices to accomplish more integrated management of natural resources. Part of this restructuring involves working to create and serve on Partnership Teams consisting of individuals and organizations with an interest or stake in natural resources. The Partner Team concept is part of the Wisconsin Basin Initiative.
The purpose of a creating Partnership Teams is to improve natural resources within river basins such as the Lower Chippewa River Basin and Red Cedar River Basin. These Partner Teams are a means of creating a network among individuals and organizations with common interests and goals. Of course, each organization or individual involved will determine its own reasons for participating, but the benefits to a participant might include sharing successes, building new partnerships and networks, identifying previously unknown resources to help accomplish goals, and joining forces on a project of common interest to collectively achieve more than any one partner could alone. Organizations and individuals have unique resources such as knowledge, expertise, time, meeting facilities or financial resources to add to the partnerships. Each organization or individuals will bring something to the Partner Team effort.
Chippewa River photograph courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Phone: 715-836-5513
Fax: 715-836-4846
105 Garfield Ave.
UW-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004
