We appreciate our volunteers who help to inform us, guide us, and enhance our role in the protection of the Mukwonago River watershed. Please become a volunteer yourself by letting us know your interests and strengths. Volunteer signup form. Visit us on Facebook.
Just in case we forget how valuable and important these rivers are to our well being. Wild and scenic rivers. Wisconsin has a few. Rivers are classified as wild, scenic, or recreational. Wild river areas — Those rivers or sections of rivers that are free of impoundments and generally inaccessible except by trail, with watersheds Read more about Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968[…]
Can we use community to move ourselves to better health? Communities are getting involved with promoting activities and design to get people moving toward more healthful lifestyles. Portland Oregon uses art to build community. Active living by design.
Film about the land ethic prepared by the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service. Try to see this if it comes your way. View this trailer of The Green Fire Film Project. Consider your relationship with the land and your environment as Earth day approaches, maybe that day, but maybe every day.
Ecotips from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Twenty things for you to do everyday to protect your earth. Remember that you live on a spaceship and care for it accordingly. Plant native grasses, shrubs and forbs, remove invasive plants, clean-up the roadsides of debris. The opportunities are endless, the results are priceless! Reduce, Reuse, Read more about Earth Day April 22, 2011[…]
The Southeastern Wisconsin Invasive Species Consortium (SEWISC) is planning a large-scale survey throughout Sheboygan, Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and Walworth counties this spring and summer and needs volunteer survey crews. SEWISC will be looking for common and cut-leaved teasel, common reed and Japanese knotweed. SEWISC needs at least two volunteers for each township. Read more about Southeastern Wisconsin Invasive Species Consortium (SEWISC) Invasive Survey[…]
Help us voice the importance of the Mukwonago River The proposal to continue the Rainbow Springs golf courses is a potential threat to the Mukwonago River and the planned restoration of that stretch of the river. The construction and operation of these golf courses through the years in the floodplain and wetlands has been a Read more about Rainbow Springs Golf Course Proposal Requires Our Vigilance[…]
DNR Spring Hearings and Wisconsin Conservation Congress County Meeting Monday, April 11, 2011, 7:00 p.m. Conservation Congress information. Waukesha County location Waukesha Co. Tech. College, Richard Anderson Ed. Center, 800 Main Street, Pewaukee, WI 53072 Walworth County location Delavan-Darien High School, 150 Cummings St., Delavan, WI 53115 If you have an interest in natural resources, Read more about Wisconsin Conservation Congress County Meeting Monday, April 11, 2011, 7:00 p.m.[…]
Protect your valuable oak trees. DNR news. “Besides oaks, pruning deciduous trees in general should be avoided in the spring, as this is the time when tree buds and leaves are growing and food reserves are low,” says Don Kissinger, a DNR urban forester. “The best time to prune any deciduous tree is winter, followed Read more about Don’t prune oaks April through July to avoid oak wilt[…]
Looking for Earth Week activities? Check out Retzer Nature Center for nature based things to do.
Read the article in the Journal-Sentinel regarding her proposed legislation to allow a leased golf course at the Rainbow Springs property, the Mukwonago River Unit of the Southern Kettle Moraine. Waukesha County sports many golf courses and several are located within less than a ten mile radius of Mukwonago High School. Protection of the Mukwonago Read more about Senator Mary Lazich supports golf course at Rainbow Springs[…]
Check out your loons. Our favorite spring pastime. As you can see from the link and pursuing individual bird migrations Loon # 55480 is currently hanging out at Eagle Lake in SE WI and a number of other birds have left the Gulf of Mexico.