News Feature                                                            3/14/2008

The Driftless Area Initiative

The Driftless Area Initiative (DAI) is a multi-state, non-profit management partnership.  It strives to coordinate natural resource conservation efforts of organizations and interested people within the 24,000 square-mile area focused on this driftless topography.  DAI is dedicated to developing a unified voice for related resource issues that affect the land and water in this area shared by Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois.

“Drift” is the word used to identify deposits of dirt, gravel, and rock that glaciers leave behind when they retreat.  Since glaciers never came through a large area of the Upper Mississippi River Basin, it is called “drift-less” – essentially unglaciated.

For more information about the Driftless Area Initiative please check out the DAI website:  http://www.driftlessareainitiative.org/index.html

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