Eco Ed Day was held last Wednesday on a beautiful autumn day at Fort Sisseton. Forty-two seventh grade Marshall County students participated in an outside classroom, learning about our Natural Resources. The sessions (and instructors) included Prairie Range (Blaze Jones-NRCS Soil Conservationist, Marshall Co.), Soils (Matt Hubers, DU), Forestry (Josh Wagner, Day County Conservation District Manager), Water Quality (Cory Zirbel, Glacial Lakes Project Co-Coordinator), and Wetlands (Laura Hubers, retired USFWS).
Following lunch, which was provided by the Marshall County Conservation District, the students watched the Rainfall and the Wind Simulators presented by Shane Jordan and Ryan Forbes of the Brookings Area NRCS Field office. These demonstrations effectively showed the students the high importance of keeping our soil covered to be a good steward of our land for not only their generation but their children’s generation.
