Forest Jahnke

On August 15th nearly 60 people gathered at Sugar Creek Bible Camp for Crawford Stewardship Project’s 16th annual Karst Exploration event. These CSP flagship events pair a scientific presentation with a field trip, each year focusing on a different karst feature such as sinkholes, caves, and this year: springs! While the Sugar Creek kitchen laid out a diverse spread for lunch, Joe Childs demonstrated CSP's twin groundwater simulators. These plexiglass models, which look similar to an ant...

The Land I've yet to meet anyone who is not awed by the beauty of our area, with rolling hills, babbling brooks, and winding rivers cutting through a patchwork of forests, fields, and small towns. The next thing many people comment on — and the first thing I miss whenever I travel — is the water. It tastes so good. And indeed, we are blessed to live in a zone that recharges and draws from one of the most abundant aquifers in the world. But how good is the drinking water, really? Until...