Eagle news; award-winning volunteers, natural areas get a helping hand
Volunteers win awards for monitoring natural resources
A Richland Center birder who has counted cranes for 35 years, a longtime Lafayette County volunteer aiding bats, birds and plants, a Madison area organization dedicated to clean lakes and a La Farge High School student promoting bat conservation have received Wisconsin Citizen-based Monitoring Awards for their outstanding efforts in volunteer monitoring. Read more.
Volunteers help keep State Natural Areas pristine
Volunteers helped control invasive plants and assisted with priority land acquisitions to enlarge Chiwaukee Prairie State Natural Area in Kenosha County, while Madison area volunteers wrapped up six years of cutting and treating more than 50,000 bundles of invasive Phragmites at Cherokee Marsh State Natural Area. These are just two examples detailed in the newly released 2017 SNA Volunteer Report. Read more.
Help report occupied bald eagle nests in southeastern Wisconsin
State ecologists conducting aerial surveys for occupied bald eagle nests this spring are asking for the public's help in locating nests in southeastern Wisconsin. Read more.
Wisconsin Wildlife Health Matters Report released
Our colleagues in DNR's Wildlife Management Bureau just issued their annual newsletter about native wildlife health issues and features stories on volunteers helping get to the bottom of tadpole mortality in Vilas County; summarizes canine distemper in a variety of animals; celebrates nearly 30 years of efforts to use eagles as indicators of ecosystem health, and much more. Read on.