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i Watershed district managers from throughout Minnesota learned a little more about water-related problems, issues and solutions in the Red River Valley and surrounding area during the 1995 Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts (MAWD) annual tour, June 23 and 24. About 115 people attended the tour, which was hosted by the Wild Rice and Sand Hill watershed districts. Tour participants departed from the Shooting Star Lodge in Mahnomen on Friday, June 23, and stopped at the Wild Rice Watershed District's Sande Detention project, a unique flood and erosion prevention and wildlife habitat project. They also stopped at Agassiz Environmental Learn- ing Center in Fertile, where Director Wayne Goeken explained the recently estab- lishedSand Hill River Watch Program, which enlists the help of area schools to monitor water quality in the Sand Hill River. On the evening of Saturday, June 24, the Shooting Star Lodge hosted the annual MAWD banquet. Host Chairs Warren Seykora of the Wild Rice Watershed District and Roger Hanson of the Sand Hill Watershed District, as well as MAWD President Vern Johnson, welcomed the group. Guest speakers at the banquet included Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe of Erskine and Don Ogaard, executive director of the Red River Watershed Management Board. Participants again boarded buses on Saturday morning for awide-ranging tour covering sites in both the Sand Hill Watershed District and the Wild Rice Watershed District. Sand Hill sites included a drive-by view of the proposed Winger Dam flood control project area, the Beaz Park Detention area, and. the Army Corps of Engineers 1954 Sand Hill River channelization project. In the Wild Rice Watershed District, Saturday's tour included examples of the 360 Tour con't on p. 6 5 MAWD tour participants boarded trailers to see the Wild Rice Watershed District's Sande Detention project, a unique multipurpose flood control and wildlife project.