Nature’s Classroom hosted and instructed a two day educational ‘Watershed Awakening’ for 23 Eagleville Elementary 5th & 6th graders, 8 Nature’s Classroom Montessori 4th-6th graders, and  26 Eagle Elementary 1st graders on March 11 and 12, 2013, facilitated by Emily Stahl, Timber-Lee Camp; Natalie Dorrler, Briana Kyle, Shari Rosenberg & Andrew Zielinski, Nature’s Classroom Institute; Mike Rutenbar, Read more about Water Education Days – Watershed Awakening[…]

It is the time to consider protecting turtles as they cross the roads. WDNR has a new citizen monitoring site with reporting forms and turtle information. Please help the Friends assist a turtle across the road and reduce mortality due to vehicle incidents. The Friends has been a longtime advocate for turtles. We have 11 species of turtles Read more about Turtle Awareness Season[…]

Please plan to attend our Annual Member meeting March 16, 2013 at the Mukwonago Community Library.  An agenda will be available soon. Tom Slawski, SEWRPC, will be talking about the Mukwonago River Watershed. Membership will vote for the board of directors whose terms are up.  A board member normally has a three year term. Since we Read more about Friends’ 2013 Annual Member Meeting[…]

2 Trillion gallons.   Where do we use all that water? “In one year, Wisconsin power plants, municipalities, large farmers, papermakers and other industries take more than 2 trillion gallons of water out of lakes, rivers and underground aquifers. Surface water.  The largest users by far of the state’s lakes and rivers are 30 power plants with Read more about Wisconsin uses over 2 trillion gallons of water annually[…]

The Friends of the Mukwonago River, a grassroots non-profit organization located in Southeastern Wisconsin, seeks a part-time Watershed Coordinator to assist its Board of Directors in: facilitating watershed protection and restoration projects, improving our funding base, reaching out to the community and our partners, growing our organization, increasing watershed awareness, and performing administrative duties. We seek Read more about Friends Seeks a Watershed Coordinator Candidate[…]

Planning for Protection in SE Wisconsin a report by Tom Slawski, Jeff Thornton, and Hebin Lin. “The strategic plan (Mukwonago River Watershed Protection Plan) is based upon three primary concepts, namely, restoring connectivity along the main stem of the Mukwonago River, restoring and maintaining connectivity of the tributary streams to the main stem of the Mukwonago River, and protecting and expanding riparian buffers.” This is Read more about Planning for Protection: SE Wisconsin’s Mukwonago River Basin[…]

Federal Advisory Committee Draft Climate Assessment Report Released for Public Review.  Provide Comments on the Report! View the National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee” or NCADAC  page here and download the report.  It is enormous for download, but also very important for your future, please review it. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices Read more about Draft Climate Assessment Report for Public Review[…]

Happy New Year! As another year comes to a close, the Friends of the Mukwonago River is inspired by your commitment to ensuring our healthy river, lakes and watershed now and into the future. We are energized by your efforts and successes, and look forward to serving you and all of us who care about keeping Read more about Happy New Year 2013[…]

Aldo Leopold Center booklet for managing woods.  Attention to oak species is particularly important in Southwest Wisconsin. The same is true for Southeast Wisconsin and our Mukwonago River watershed. “Oak savannas are defined by having scattered oak trees that are “opengrown”(broad spreading branches). There is typically a lot of sunlight that reaches the ground (50 percent or Read more about My Healthy Woods[…]

The Friend are having an event December 1 to honor and acknowledge our wonderful volunteers and members.  Our honorees are the following:   2012 Watershed Champion Nominees STEWARDSHIP Organization: Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources: For streambank restoration efforts on the former Rainbow Springs property, now the Mukwonago River Unit–Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest The Nature Conservancy: For Read more about Volunteer and Member Recognition[…]

Newell and Ann Meyer Nature Preserve returns to its past. The 374-acre preserve was acquired by the Nature Conservancy in 2006 through the Meyers’ estate and is the headwaters of the Mukwonago River. “Our ultimate goal here is native prairie punctuated by 45 acres of oak savannah and woodlands.” Nice work Nature Conservancy doing the restoration Read more about TNC Restores Meyer Property[…]

Talking Big: Lessons Learned from a 9000 Hectare Restoration in the Northern Tallgrass Prairie.  Article from Sustainability includes a 22 page pdf, downloadable. “Because of its high agricultural productivity and vulnerability to conversion, temperate grassland is considered the most fragmented, altered, and threatened of terrestrial biomes [1,2]. Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of perennial grassland to the sustainability Read more about Talking Big: 9000 Hectare Prairie Restoration[…]