Cass County
What is now the Cass County Chapter played a major role in establishing the 6,000-plus-acre Deep Portage Conservation Reserve and the Deep Portage Learning Center. The Reserve is an ecologically and biologically diverse glacial moraine (an accumulation of glacial debris), with wetlands, lakes, and a working forest managed by Cass County. Located within the Reserve, the Learning Center (with which our Chapter is currently most closely associated) offers a variety of informal outdoor recreation opportunities as well as an accredited, overnight conservation education curriculum which serves about 9,000 school children during the school year and a variety of summer camps, including a week-long multigenerational Izaak Walton League camp. Several of our chapter members serve on the Learning Center’s governing board and committees and otherwise assist the Learning Center in a variety of ways. We also provide annual maintenance for the snowshoe trail in the Reserve. The chapter conducts fundraisers, the proceeds of which are donated to the Learning Center for scholarships for youth to attend summer camps. The chapter has also adopted a 3.5-mile section of the North Country Trail, a national hiking trail, and provides routine maintenance of the trail path (clearing, brushing, mowing). Our chapter members enjoy working together and with others to conserve soil, woods, lakes, and wildlife.
Your kit will include a bottle containing 25 nitrate test strips which you can use to test your water source(s) throughout the year. You’ll also receive postcards explaining how to use your nitrate test strips and how to share your Nitrate Watch results on the Clean Water Hub.
Your kit will include four test strips so you can test your waterway throughout the season. You’ll also receive a chart to help you interpret your results and a postcard with instructions for completing a Salt Watch test and reporting your findings.