An annual membership is $40 per year, or you can become a monthly sustaining member for $5 per month. Your membership can include just yourself, you and your partner, or an entire family. However you want to count your “membership,” just fill it out in the form!

Of course! Any donations above or beyond are appreciated and integral to our continued work!

Annual memberships last one year from the date of the donation given. Monthly sustaining members are considered current for 30 days after their monthly donation.

Love your watershed!

Our quarterly Watershed Waves newsletter delivered directly to your inbox or via snail mail.

Invites to our summer Annual Membership Gathering part and our winter Streams of the Year informational session.

Monthly Superior Rivers Snapshot emails to keep your finger on the pulse of local science, field trips, Science on Tap, workshops, and other outdoor and water programming.

Direct and tangible support of clean waters and rivers in Wisconsin’s Lake Superior Basin.

Great question, and the easy answer is: both are great!

It is true that credit card processing fees mean that a big check in the mail is better for us. But it is very helpful for us to have a regular stream of income to rely on. If we know to expect 50 sustaining membership payments every single month, this helps us manage our money and pay our regular bills, as well as see upward and downward trends before they become a problem.

Whichever method is better for you comes first. We would love to count you as a monthly sustaining member so that we have a regular monthly donation stream as well (pun intended)!

Absolutely! We love when local businesses support watershed stewardship. Your business can become a Business Sponsor for the calendar year, getting a variety of promotional options at different support levels.

Water Quality Monitoring. Our water quality monitoring program is heavily donation funded. Our volunteers monitor over 30 sites on streams and rivers in the Lake Superior Basin, testing chemical and physical parameters monthly and collecting macroinvertebrates (aquatic bugs) twice per year. Each site costs us approximately $500 in gear, supplies, training, and staff management time to support these wonderful volunteers.

Watershed Report Cards. Community members are better stewards and more informed citizens when they have information at their fingertips. We are actively developing a regular production of Watershed Report Cards to bring you this water quality data so you know

Educational Programming. We host monthly Science on Tap talks at a local bar, field trips all summer long, workshops with our local partners, as well as other educational experiences to connect people, land, and water.

Events for our Membership. We love to throw a good party and meet all you wonderful members face to face!

Administrative Expenses. All non-profits have a cost to operate. We rely on donations to support our office space, the staff that manage these programs and organize the volunteers, or even the silly things like insurance, paper, and credit card processing fees.

You can adopt a site! For $500, you can sponsor the full cost of a water quality monitoring site for a year. And we even let you choose the site!