Landscaping for Clean Water
Joe Barten holds a BS in Environmental Design from the University of Minnesota. Professionally, Joe has helped hundreds of homeowners design and install rain gardens, native gardens, or native shoreline restorations on their property. As Senior Resource Conservationist for the Dakota County SWCD,he provides planning, design, and project management of urban stormwater and shoreline restoration projects.
In this presentation, Landscaping for Clean Water, Joe Barten will share how the Dakota County Landscaping for Clean Water program is a partnership program with residents concerned with water quality and wildlife habitat to not only learn about water resource issues, but what they can do to help fix them. He will share information on the educational workshops held every year on water quality issues that provide solutions such as backyard conservation projects, native gardens, rain gardens, and native shoreline plantings.
Joe Barten
Senior Resource Conservationist, CPSWQ l Dakota County SWCD
Administrator via Dakota County SWCD l Lower Mississippi River WMO
Office: (651) 480-7784
Cell: (952) 212-22662266