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SWTU Workday – Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Pleasant Valley Branch

By Jim Hess (note updates to remaining workdays) Time: 9am to 12 noon (sawyers that have completed a chainsaw safety course please arrive at 8:30, if needed we can provide a chainsaw and safety equipment). Where: Pleasant Valley… Read More

Two Great Workdays: Earth Day Planting and Conley Lewis Clearing

Earth Day tree planting 2025

By Topf Wells The first was on Earth Day, 4/22. About a dozen of us joined with Justin Haglund’s great DNR crew to help the 4th and 5th graders of Hollandale plant oak trees along Gordon Creek. The… Read More

Join our First Stream Workday of 2025 – Saturday, April 5

By Jim Hess, Conservation Chair Below is information for our first workday of our spring season. It will be at the Duerst property on the Sugar River located at 7309 Riverside Rd. We are hoping for a big… Read More

SWTU Receives STIHL Grant

Watch for word of a workday this fall (most likely) featuring work by 8-10 professional sawyers using STIHL chainsaws to quickly cut down and buck up invasive trees for our crews to haul and stack. We’ll need plenty… Read More

2025 Tentative Spring Workday Sites – March update

Lowery Creek May 2024

By Jim Hess, Conservation Chair Still working on locking in all dates and sites, but here is an update as of 2.23.25 April 5 – Duerst Property on the Sugar River (7309 Riverside Rd). The county recently purchased… Read More

2025 Tentative Spring Workday Sites

By Jim Hess, Conservation Chair Still working on dates and sites, but here is an update as of 2.02.25 The first workday will be April 5 and the last one on June 7. April 26 will be at… Read More

A Great End to a Great Season

By Topf Wells Jim Hess and Ted Swenson called for a big turnout of sawyers and haulers for our last ’24 work day. We needed everyone for the clumps of box elder lining Conley Lewis Creek upstream of… Read More

Join the Last Workday of 2024

By Jim Hess, Conservation Chair SWTU Workday – Saturday, December 7, 2024 Conley Lewis Creek (Iowa County) (Northwest of Hollandale near the intersection of Hwy 191 & Banner Road) Time: 9am to 12 noon (Sawyers that have completed… Read More

History and the Future, Looking Good (November 9, 2024 Workday)

By Topf Wells The SWTU workday at Sawmill Creek on 11/9 was, per usual, successful and fun, with perhaps a bit more significance than usual. The mission was to clear honeysuckle and box elder to improve access, streambanks,… Read More

Buckthorn is Well Named – October 12

By Topf Wells The SWTU work day crews don’t encounter invasive buckthorn as often as honeysuckle. Lucky for us because the thorns can be painful. Careful and undaunted, we eliminated truckloads from the banks of the Sugar River… Read More