by Dave Krier | Jun 10, 2024 | BLOG
Who can forget the explosion of interest in conservation in the late 1960s and early 70s? The hot topics included the Cuyahoga River catching on fire in Ohio in 1969, a tetanus shot being needed if you fell into the Potomac River in the nation’s capital, smog in...
by Dave Krier | Apr 13, 2024 | BLOG
When I look out onto my backyard, I almost always see birds. We have a mid-sized city lot in a town of about 4,000 people, so I have modest expectations, but I’m never disappointed. Most of the time, just by taking a few minutes to observe, I can find over 10 species...
by Dave Krier | Mar 13, 2024 | BLOG
I should have known that I would grow up and end up working in the outdoors. When we moved to the farm when I was 11 years old, I loved learning so many things just by going outside and running around in the fields, hills, quarries, rivers, and barnyards all around...
by Ben Johnston | Mar 5, 2024 | BLOG
For me, my 2023 Nature Experience was the crane fly larva. I was entertaining a handful of children (5th – 6th grade), teaching the parameters (e.g., temperature, stream flow and depth, and turbidity) associated with water quality and monitoring (i.e., what we...
by Dave Krier | Oct 13, 2023 | BLOG
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...
by Dave Krier | Sep 6, 2023 | BLOG
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...
by Nan Marshall | May 23, 2023 | BLOG
During the recent Ridges to Rivers Book Festival held in Viroqua, WI, we welcomed 4 authors into our office to participate in a Book Garden. Each author read for 10 minutes from their latest works with a theme of Sense of Place. At the end, there was a nice...
by Tom Lukens | Oct 17, 2022 | BLOG
Agriculture and development have severely reduced the acreage of wetlands across the countryside. Wetlands support an extraordinary diversity of wildlife. They trap sediments and nutrient-laden agricultural runoff. Wetlands serve as sponges for flood waters too. We...
by Tom Lukens | Sep 19, 2022 | BLOG
Prevention of deer browse is one answer. We protect all the trees and shrubs that we plant. In the case of some of the oaks, even if they are volunteers sprouted from forgotten squirrel cashes, we generally protect them with 5′ welded wire fence rings. Oaks,...
by Tom Lukens | Aug 10, 2022 | BLOG
Tom acquired this 87-acre property with its mile of the West Fork in 2003. Since then, a half mile of streambank stabilization work has been done, along with in-stream and other habitat work. This work has been done in stages. The most recent work along 780 feet of...
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