The Coon Creek Community Watershed Council offers a wide array of conservation cost share opportunities for our members. Our cost share is available on a first come, first serve basis. Deadlines for requesting cost share and eligibility requirements vary by program. Check below to find an option that is right for you. Please verify that cost share is available before begining any projects. 

Not finding what you’re looking for? Let us know so we can better serve you next season by emailing us at council@cooncreekwatershed.org.

To request cost share, you must be a CCCWC member. Membership is free and open all. Sign up here.

Why cover crop in the Coon Creek Watershed?

Cover crops are grown to maintain soil cover, and are often planted between the growing seasons of other crops. This practice helps improve soil health, reduce runoff, protect soil from nutrient loss, and more.

Council member and long-time farmer John Zinn explained why cover cropping is one strategy for managing flooding in the Coon Creek Watershed:

“You intercept the energy of raindrops as they fall, so that as raindrops get slowed down, the soil has the proper structure to be able to soak them up and direct that water into the groundwater, rather than make it run off as surface water. As the Haugen brother said, the water walks rather than runs.”

Out to pasture: Meet two Coon Creek producers who made the transition to grazing

•  Hazelnuts: $10/Adventure Series cultivar or pollinator sibling. **Place Fall 2027 order by June 1, 2026!**

Priority to growers in the Coon Creek Watershed. Click here to place your hazelnut order.

Made possible through a North Central Sustainable Ariculture Research and Education Partnerhsip Grant.

• Other trees and shrubs: $10/tree up to 80 trees; $3/shrub up to 260 shrubs. Trees must be staked and planted in a tree tube. *Combined tree and shrub cost share not to excede $800/resquest*

Request by Dec. 31, 2026. Priority to growers in the Coon Creek Watershed.

Made possible by The Nature Conservancy.

The CCCWC will cover 2/3 of your cost share commitment up to $5,000 on county sponsored erosion control projects, including grade stabilizations, water diversions, farm ponds, and grassed waterways

Request funding for 2027 season by Sept 30, 2026. Projects may be in the Coon Creek, West Fork Kickapoo, or Little La Crosse Watersheds.

Made possible by Sand County Foundation with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Regional Conservation Partnership Program, Supplemental Agreement #2971.

Be part of Coon Creek’s conservation legacy and help make running water walk when you give to the CCCWC. You can make a gift directly to our cost share fund to increase the impact of our conservation programs.