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Celebration of the Headwaters with the LWV Upper Mississippi River Region

  • 01 Oct 2017
  • 1:30 PM
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • 1:00 PM
  • Boat Tour on Lake Itasca

Join the Board of LWV Upper Mississippi River Region for this event!

October 1 – Lake Itasca boat tour with naturalist followed by group photo at the Headwaters

Coborn’s Lake Itasca Boat tour: $16/person for a 1.5 hour tour of Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi, with narration by a naturalist. They are hoping to have a group of more than 18 peoples so they can make a reservation - please contact Gretchen Sabel (gpsabel@yahoo.com) if you are planning to come. Meet at the tour boat dock at 1:30pm; boat leaves at 2pm.

Group photo at the Headwaters:

Gather at the marker at 4:30 pm. All are welcome! They will have someone with a camera on hand to take a group photo. Walking across the rocks is an optional activity.

October 2 – LWV UMRR Board meeting in the Joseph Brower visitor center and talk on nitrates in drinking water and their connection to land use

Board Meeting: Gather in the Joseph Brower visitor center (near the east park entrance) at 9:00, meeting will take place from 9:15 to 11:30. (Info on the visitor center here, see #28/33.) Coffee, tea and refreshments will be provided for both events.

Educational Event: The UMRR-ILO will have Chris Parthun, Principal Planner, from the Minnesota Department of Health and Katie DeSchane from Toxic Taters on hand to talk about nitrates in drinking water and how land use can tip the equation. Park Rapids has had problems with high nitrates as forests are cleared and the land converted to potato farms. They will have a discussion with the speakers and learn what it will take to protect the groundwater resources in this area. Some background reading here and here and here and here. Christopher Parthun, Principal Planner in the Minnesota Department of Health's Drinking Water Protection Section will speak on the state response to increasing nitrates in drinking water.

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