The Minnesota Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts named the East Otter Tail District as this year’s District of the Year award. District Manager Darren Newville says the conservation efforts aren’t done for the awards, but the recognition is still nice. “Minnesota’s blessed with a lot of great Soil and Water Conservation Districts doing different work so it’s nice to be recognized in front of our peers.” A lot of the district’s focus has been on irrigation efforts. “We led the charge for a 20-county regional conservation partnership program where we brought in $3.5 million of federal fund to address some of the needs with irrigation and conservation measures with that.”
