Sauk Prairie Migratory Bird Day
It was Migratory Bird Day in Sauk Prairie this past Saturday, the official kickoff to Migratory Bird Week. The week’s events will culminate with the Great Wisconsin Birdathon May 4. […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Frac Sand Mining in Wisconsin
I read with interest the Capital Times article by Steve Elbow on the frac sand regulations proposed by democratic state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout. In an interview with Minnesota Public Radio, […]
Earth Day Sauk Prairie
I spent the afternoon this Saturday with an energetic group of high school students, land ethics leaders and all around stewards of the environment picking up trash in and around […]
Earth Day
Earth Day has a special meaning in Wisconsin. Gaylord Nelson, former U.S. Senator and Governor of this great state, founded Earth Day in 1970. He announced the idea of […]
Come High Water
I needed some inspiration for this blog post so I turned to the one source I was certain to find it – Leopold’s Sand County Almanac. It made sense to […]
Sauk Prairie Migratory Bird Week
My community of Sauk Prairie was designated a Wisconsin Bird City in 2011. Sauk Prairie is not the technical name but is how some residents of the villages of Sauk […]
Birds of a Feather
I met an old friend for dinner last night. Linda and I knew each other back in junior high but lost touch, as many people do. We reconnected last year […]
Along the River Bank
The Wisconsin River has been called “the hardest working river” in the state. The river was used for many years as a way to move lumber from northern Wisconsin down […]
Fly Away Home
I pulled into my driveway two weeks ago and heard a familiar sound. The call of a sandhill crane flying overhead. There were actually two calls which meant the pair […]
