Prairie Strips in Fall

Prairie Strips in Fall

It’s a late fall afternoon, and I am walking along a four-year-old prairie strip that was planted by Valley Stewardship Network, where I work.  The ground is pretty sloped, but farmable – certainly in this part of the country – angling down through a corn...
Caring for Our Wisconsin Bats

Caring for Our Wisconsin Bats

My earliest memories of bats are from watching Bela Lugosi in the old Dracula movies and the time a bat got into our farmhouse when I was maybe 11 years old. I remember watching re-runs of Dracula movies on Saturday afternoons, wondering why a vampire and a bat were...