> What Is WAC?

Source Water Stewardship by Farm and Forest Landowners
The Watershed Agricultural Council (WAC) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to support the economic viability of agriculture and forestry through the protection of water quality and the promotion of land conservation in the New York City watershed region. WAC is funded by New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service and other federal and foundation sources.
- Mission and Vision
- Annual Report 2008

- Online Annual Report Supplement 2008 (last updated 5/18/09)

- Form 990 (2008)





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> Farm & Forest Profiles

Local landowners make clean water a daily practice. Find out more about them and why they work with WAC.
- Forestry Profile: Rustic Artist Adds Marketing Tools with Watershed Grant 2/24/09

- Forestry Profile: Rustic Contemporary
- Farm Profile: High Meadows Rare Breeds Farm

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> Watershed Products

Support a healthy working forest with your next purchase from Catskill WoodNet, a regional network of woodworkers, artisans and sawmills (Directory pdf: May 2008).

Buy Local from Pure Catskills, where farmers grow and harvest food in the same pristine mountain region where clean drinking water for New York City originates.

> Watershed Headlines

- WAC-NRCS Forestry Funding Available to Private Landowners 7.3.09 (press release)

- Catskill WoodNet News (eNewsletter), July 1, 2009

- Federal Stimulus to Benefit Watershed Farms and Water Quality  6.16.09 (Press release)

- Hoof Health Course Offered at Hamden Town Hall on July 14   6.15.09  (Press release) (Registration brochure)

- Livestock Watering System Protocol 6.4.09 (fact sheet)

- WAC eNewsletter, June 2009