Monarch butterflies have been devastated by storms in Mexico. Two newspaper stories tell of their plight, the Star-Telegram in Texas, and the Globe and Mail in Canada. Monarchs travel up to 2,500 kilometres to Mexico in the fall and winter and return each spring. Milkweed plays a key role in their survival. Their populations have Read more about MONARCHS IN TROUBLE: PLANT MILKWEEDS!![…]
Check out the Center for Watershed Protection on how to integrate wetlands into larger watershed protection projects. Visit a wetland gem near you. Beulah Bog and Lulu Lake offer places in the watershed to learn more about this month. The Scuppernong River area is another great place with enormous significance in close proximity to our Read more about May is American Wetlands Month[…]
Thanks to Eric Howe for this information on the Mustard White butterfly. Another reason to rid our spaces of garlic mustard. Pull this invasive at every opportunity to beautify your yards and help the Mustard White with the added benefit of allowing your native species to thrive.
As we found in the SEWRPC plan updates, creatures need buffers and habitat connectivity to survive and thrive. We need to land use plan based on the impacts of a full array of development (road building, transmission lines and power plants, urban sprawl, wetland loss) as well as loss of habitat from natural phenomena like Read more about Landscape permeability for wildlife[…]
Tips from the Milwaukee Journal on how to tastefully celebrate Earth Day. These are great tips to help you change your habits in small ways that will help your planet in big ways. Kudos to Karen Herzog of the Journal Sentinel for sharing these local based ideas for Earth Day.
What will you be doing to show Mother Earth you still care about her? We are all dependent upon her resources and interdependent with everyone and everything else. Ecology is defined as the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms. Every day is a day Read more about 40th Anniversary of Earth Day[…]
See how Alterra Coffee has chosen to utilize green energy and create a greener environment through Energy for Tomorrow. The Mequon Nature Preserve has installed a 10kW wind turbine and a 9.8 kW photovoltaic array with financial assistance through the We Energies non-profit grant program. We appreciate all the individuals and corporate entities which support Read more about Local commitments to renewable energy[…]
You may have grown up in the watershed, live here now, or just love the fact that this incredible resource exists. Here is a document to learn something from, revisit, pass on to others. It is about buffers and the territory the critters we appreciate need to survive. It is long and can be a Read more about Managing the Water’s Edge[…]
Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. -Leonardo da Vinci
It is spring and ephemerals are everywhere, ponds, pools, and flowers. Cool days and nights and the vernal world opens all around us. Patterned multi-hued greens and verdant blues in buds, water, and sky. Yes, we love spring.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. ~Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964 There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~Marshall McLuhan, 1964 What lessons have we considered in the past forty six years.
An Earth Day challenge for any of us. 15 Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint. Practice the Three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Entertain your family and friends in larger groups. Have a quality meal and quality time at home at less expense. Plant local, native plants when you beautify your surroundings. Make homemade gifts for Read more about How you can lower your carbon footprint.[…]