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Faith: Karla and Shelley, it's took a

lot of coordination between the DNR and

the DOT, do you wanna say a little bit

about what that involves?

Shelley: Well, Wisconsin is unique. We

have a Department of Natural Resources

and Department of Transportation

Cooperative Agreement, and essentially

what that does is it streamlines

projects such as this that saves the

taxpayers money because the regulatory

approval process has really been

finessed to the point where we really

work together well and can provide the

reviews in a timely manner while

presenting high-quality natural

resource protection. So really it's a

win-win for both of our agencies, we've

found that having this strong

relationship where we can put together

projects such as this really does

benefit the citizens of the state of

Wisconsin.

We have a very strong history of

recreation and a big industry that

supports that recreation in Wisconsin,

and these types of projects are so very

important because you can have fish and

you can have hunting and different

things like that, but if you don't have

the habitat to support the creatures

really you have a very declining

recreational value. So we're very happy

to be working together on this type of

project and we see very many more

opportunities to do more in the future

such as this.

Karla: And the reason it works so well

is with the cooperative agreement the

DNR comes in early. So right at the

beginning phase of the project they're

involved in a lot of the decision-

making and they can identify what the

environmental issues are that they have

concerns about, like threatened and

endangered species or streams or

fisheries or whatever it is. So we know

right at the beginning of a project

what issues that we have to deal with.

And so we work with the DNR so that

we'll be in regulatory compliance and

that includes not just the DNR but the

Army Corps of Engineers also. We have a

lot of regulatory agencies but, again,

this is unique in that the DNR's

available to work with us throughout

the project.

Faith: And right from the start.

Shelly: Right and that ensures the high

quality, natural resources protection

that Wisconsin's known for.

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Title: Early communication helps to streamline rehabilitation projects that combine stream and wetland techniques, County G I-94 Interchange, Wisconsin

Description:

Faith Fitzpatrick (U.S. Geological Survey), Shelley Warwick (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources), and Karla Leithoff (Wisconsin Department of Transportation) discuss coordination among WI DOT and WI DNR, connections between wetland scientists and engineers.

Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA

Date Taken: 11/17/2010

Length: 2:39

Video Producer: Douglas A. Harned , National Water-Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA), USGS, North Carolina Water Science Center, Raleigh, NC

Note: This video has been released into the public domain by the U.S. Geological Survey for use in its entirety. Some videos may contain pieces of copyrighted material. If you wish to use a portion of the video for any purpose, other than for resharing/reposting the video in its entirety, please contact the Video Producer/Videographer listed with this video. Please refer to the USGS Copyright section for how to credit this video.

Additional Video Credits:

Faith Fitzpatrick: Scriptwriter, Narrator, Scientist Consultant

Gerard McMahon: Producer

Douglas Harned: Producer, Video, Editor

Alan Cressler: Video

Luke McMahon: Video

Karla Leithoff (Wisconsin Department of Transportation)

Shelley Warwick (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)

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