Wisconsin • Launching 2026
Building an outcome-verified network of habitat corridors across Wisconsin’s working lands.
We respond to farmer enrollment requests within 72 hours.
These working lands hold a powerful opportunity: when habitat features align across farms, they can help reconnect nature across entire landscapes — strengthening ecological connectivity while supporting the ecosystem services agriculture depends on.
The Badgerland Biodiversity Corridors Initiative (BBCI) is a farmer-centered, science-driven proof-of-concept pilot planned for launch in Wisconsin in 2026. Leveraging the state’s existing conservation infrastructure, the pilot tests whether outcome-verified biodiversity data can serve as a shared foundation for aligning farmers, public agencies, researchers, conservation organizations, and funders around habitat connectivity, water quality, and investment in resilient working lands.
The objective is to bring more agricultural working lands into landscape-scale systems that sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services over time.
Connected nature is resilient nature — and resilient farms.
We connect farm-level stewardship with corridor-scale science and outcome-verified monitoring—so communities can align conservation where it works best.
BBCI connects farm-level stewardship with landscape-scale science and locally led action.
Support for buffers, perennial cover, wetlands, prairie strips, and habitat features placed on acres that are often difficult to farm — helping reduce erosion, improve soil and water function, and support long-term profitability.
Field-based biodiversity and ecosystem indicators that show what is changing on the ground.
Spatial modeling to understand how individual farms function together as connected systems across the landscape.
BBCI builds on Wisconsin’s voluntary conservation foundation by measuring outcomes and understanding how practices contribute to connectivity and ecosystem services across farms.
Farmers, researchers, conservation partners, and local organizations interpret results and improve how conservation works on real farms.
BBCI tracks practical, science-based indicators that show how working lands contribute to biodiversity, ecosystem services, and landscape connectivity.
A shared foundation for farmers, communities, science, and investment.
Turn marginal acres into nature-based solutions with upfront costs covered, monitoring managed, and potential outcome-based payments.
Farmer Enrollment →Use outcome-verified evidence to help coordinate watershed planning, programs, and resilience investments.
Partner With BBCI →Collaborate on science-based approaches to habitat connectivity and working-lands conservation.
Explore partnerships →Support outcome-verified conservation that links farms to landscape-scale impact and scalable public–private alignment.
Support the Pilot →