The yellow pins on this Google Map show most of the sites* where we have created Watershed Cairns images. They dot the land near the Yellowstone River, a major tributary to the Missouri River, and from the Missouri’s origin in northern Montana. A second string of locations follow the Mississippi River from its origin at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers at West Alton, Missouri. (*There are many more sites in the St. Louis Metro area than are shown on this map.)
We originally planned to follow the Mississippi River south to the Gulf of Mexico this summer. However, the more we look at this map and think about the importance of the Ohio River to the watershed and to the quantity and quality of the Mississippi River water, we’re now thinking that we should follow the Ohio from its origin in smaller rivers of Pennsylvania and southwestern New York. Stay tuned.
