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Women’s Fishing Clinics Develop Women’s Leadership Institute

By Tina Murray and Team Over a decade ago SWTU lead the nation in offering intensive women’s fly fishing clinics. In 2009 very few chapters or other groups across the nation could offer women clinics lead by other… Read More

Our Last Workday of Spring 2021 – It was a good (and hot) one!

By Topf Wells Jim Hess orchestrated a wonderful end to the spring workday season on a hot May 22 at Dane County’s Davidson property on the Sugar River.  The mission was to complete a large brush bundle on… Read More

Who’s got workdays? We’ve got workdays!

Event reports and photos – many thanks to all who turned out Read more and view pictures of three tremendous events. From tree planting to chain sawing to a unique tug-of-war … see how SWTU and its members… Read More

Kittleson Creek Visit with Generous Donor

Chapter president, Jim Hess, recently met with Dr. Terry Guerkink for a tour of the restoration work on Kittleson Creek upstream of the bridge on Drammen Valley Road. Thanks to Dr. Guerkink providing one of the most generous… Read More

Funding appeal a big success: Thank you!

Contruction on Gordon Creek

Learn what was raised and how it’s being put to great use.

So how are the donations making a difference?

In making our funding appeal, we promised you that we would use the funds you donated to support some excellent projects.  The Board took that responsibility seriously and made the following decisions at our March Board meeting. Kittleson… Read More

Pruning Project to Bear Fruit

By Topf Wells We had a safe and productive morning of pruning at the Neperud orchard.  Safe because the small turnout made for ample spacing and avoidance of any coronavirus that had found its way to Paoli (which… Read More

Now presenting … Dan Oele

Fascinating and useful presentation from February 2020 meeting We’ve had plenty of requests for the exceptional presentation given at our February Chapter meeting. Thanks for your requests and thanks to our great friends at the WDNR, you can… Read More

A fun, friendly and informative Icebreaker

Many thanks to all who attended or helped out! See pictures of the big day … 

Wisconsin Trout Unlimited Banquet honors two from SWTU

Last month we shared that Dan Wisniewski and Mary Ann Doll (pictured below) were to be honored by our state council in February. We had a write-up on Dan’s Lifetime Achievement Award last month. This month it’s Mary… Read More