PARK RIVER, N.D. – As watershed coordinator for the Walsh County Three Rivers Soil Conservation District in northeast North Dakota, Josh Anderson knows the challenges of implementing conservation on a shoestring budget.

Educating landowners on ways to reduce soil erosion and collecting weekly water samples to monitor water quality throughout the Park River Watershed are priorities for Anderson, one of only three full-time staff members in the Walsh County Three Rivers SCD office.

Watershed grants from the federal Environmental Protection Agency through the Clean Water Act have funded a significant portion of the Walsh County SCD office’s recent water monitoring efforts, Anderson says, allowing staff to check for nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, total suspended solids and E. c

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