By Topf Wells SWTU provided Gordon Creek and the DNR’s Justin Haglund and Lloyd Meng with 16 volunteers on our first work day of the fall on the easement downstream of Brue Road. The issues today were access… Read More

By Topf Wells SWTU showed up, Stihl showed up, Dane County showed up, TUDARE showed up, the WI Chapter of BHA showed up. All to improve the Sugar River at the County’s newest, 640 acre property on the… Read More

By Topf Wells (see the end of this report for a thanks from the landowners!) Indeed, another fabulously varied work day. The chief mission was to plant 70 swamp white and bur oaks along the newly completed DNR… Read More

By Topf Wells Twenty-seven SWTU and Nohr Chapter volunteers showed up for our work day at Big Spring. We finished cutting and treating willows and box elders. The DNR now takes over in the fall or spring with… Read More

(Workday Report 1: April 11 Yahara River) By Topf Wells That would be the SWTU work day on the Upper Yahara on Saturday morning, April 11. About 20 SWTU volunteers and friends gathered to continue to clear invasive… Read More

(Workday report 2: April 25 Garfoot Creek) By Topf Wells I usually start these reports with the report before thanking folks but Pam Allen, the landowner on Garfoot Creek, gets pride of place today.  Her easement is probably… Read More

By Topf Wells and Dyan Lesnik Jim Hess organized a grand opening to the SWTU workday season. The morning was chilly but sunny with mild breezes. The work site was a Dane County easement on Pleasant Valley Creek… Read More