Eastern Tallgrass Prairie and Big Rivers Landscape Conservation Cooperative

productivity. This framework consists of multiple quantitative objectives representing three interests (i.e., wildlife, water quality, agriculture), a tiered set of conservation strategies to achieve those objectives within five production agriculture systems (i.e., corn and soybean; grazing lands; floodplain forest; rice; and cotton), and a modeling approach to determine where to best implement those actions within four key ecological systems of the Mississippi River Basin (i.e., headwater row crop fields; upland prairies; mid-sized riparian streams; and mainstem floodplains). The GHI team narrowed the initial scope of implementation from the entire Mississippi River to a smaller set of focal areas in a Preliminary Water Quality Focus Area based on potential for nutrient export from agricultural areas and the priority watersheds of various parties.