10/30/2026
Help protect more than 20 years of water quality monitoring in the Driftless Region.
For more than two decades, Valley Stewardship Network (VSN) has been keeping a close eye on the health of our local streams. Year after year, our staff and volunteers return to the same monitoring sites, collecting the data that helps us understand how our waters are changing.
That kind of long-term commitment is rare, and the information it provides is invaluable.
In 2026, VSN monitored 24 sites across the Kickapoo, Tainter, C**n, Rush, Bad Axe, and Little La Crosse watersheds. These measurements help us identify changes in water quality, evaluate the impacts of conservation practices, detect emerging concerns, and better understand the connections between our land and water. A single water sample tells us what is happening on a particular day but more than 20 years of monitoring helps us see the bigger picture.
We need your help to keep this important work going.
Long-term monitoring requires a sustained commitment of staff time, laboratory testing, equipment, and travel to monitoring sites. Your donation helps ensure that this valuable record continues to grow and that reliable, locally collected information remains available to farmers, watershed groups, researchers, conservation partners, and our communities.
Please consider making a gift today to support VSN's water quality monitoring program.
Together, we can turn more than two decades of monitoring into three decades and beyond, giving future generations the information they need to understand and protect the waters of the Driftless Region.
Thank you for helping us keep this work going, year after year.
www.valleystewardshipnetwork.org/get-involved/donations/
