TY - JOUR T1 - Soil conservation in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 355 LP - 356 VL - 37 IS - 6 AU - Stanley W. Trimble AU - Steven W. Lund Y1 - 1982/11/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/37/6/355.abstract N2 - Wisconsin's Coon Creek Basin, like most of the Driftless Area in the upper Midwest, was strikingly transformed by the use of soil conservation measures after the 1930s. Erosion and sedimentation rates declined significantly. Estimated upland erosion rates in 1975 were about one-fourth those in 1934, while measured sedimentation rates in recent years were 1 to 2 percent of those in the 1930s. Erosion and sedimentation were functions of erosive land use, a composite index of land use and land treatment, but both erosion and sedimentation demonstrated a time lag in their relationship with erosive land use. Climatic change did not appear to be a casual factor for the observed trends in erosion and sedimentation. ER -