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“We knew we needed to help”

Posted on August 25, 2015

A former chair of the Water Resources Management program saw an opportunity and the current chair seized it. The result: another shining example of WRM’s impact on Wisconsin communities.

Read the full article at: http://nelson.wisc.edu/news/in-common/spring-summer2015/story.php?s=1489
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