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A Heroic Workday – Crew Takes on Wild Parsnip

By Jim Hess, SWTU Conservation Chair I want to give a special shout out to the following volunteers that showed up for a mid-summer special workday to battle out of control wild parsnip and other invasives in our… Read More

A Great End to the Spring Workdays

Smith Conley Stream Workday

By Topf Wells Jim Hess has more than earned his trip in search of smallmouth bass and pike eager to take a fly with his brilliant organization of the fifth and (almost) final SWTU workday of the spring… Read More

Streams, Smiles and Wind Knots – A Great Riversmith Fly Casting Clinic

Casting Clinic 2022

Many thanks to Jim Beecher for these photos that tell the tale of a wonderful, engaging and educational casting clinic in Cross Plains on May 7. Many thanks to all who showed up to teach and learn!

Turkey Nest Narrowly Avoided: May 14 Stream Workday

Smith Conley Workday June 2022

By Topf Wells Thanks to Jim Hess and an even bigger, more varied cast of characters than usual, we had another successful work day, this time on Smith Conley. The DNR folks, led by Justin Haglund, were a… Read More

Where There’s a Willow There’s a Workday: Fun Planting Trees

Willow Creek Workday

By Topf Wells The Jim/Justin double team produced a good workday for us and Willow Creek. With Jim and Justin having devoted hours to preparation, about a dozen SWTU members with some help from the Nohr and Coulee… Read More

Awesome Appreciation for our Spring Fair Fundraiser Donors

Spring Fair Fundraiser

Please thank the people who donated and consider supporting the businesses who gave so generously to help keep our event expenses very low and make it such a success! In particular, we’d like to call out 608 Community… Read More

Scouts to the Rescue: Workday recap

Davidson Creek Stream Workday

By Topf Wells Fourteen intrepid SWTU members, veterans and rookies, young and old, showed up on Saturday, 4/30 to wrestle piles of limbs, logs, and brush into brush bundles at the Davidson site on the Sugar River.  With… Read More

Workday recap: Beavers have nothing on SWTU

Workday skidsteer

By Topf Wells On November 6, SWTU completed another productive and safe workday and saw a massive stream restoration in the process. We cleared small  to large box elders from the upper end of the County’s restoration of… Read More

Workday report: The Dirty Dozen Meet Tarzan

By Topf Wells Jim Hess is the best thing since beer. He organized another great workday and the Sugar River is looking the better for it. Jim spent hours of effort making this one happen. He first chose the… Read More