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The 2012 advertising flyer, with order blank is here. Dennis Prusik and his outdoor friends ply the waters and woods of Northern Wisconsin and beyond, printing for our enjoyment the best of their seasonal notes of fishing, hunting, berry picking, birding, gardening, wildflower and weather lore.
This award winning calendar and almanac was begun over 30 years ago by NEW Audubon members as a fundraiser for wildlife habitat purchase or preservation. A portion of the proceeds continues to go to the Wisconsin Land Fund to protect our natural areas.
If you've never seen this great calendar before, click on the image below for a sample from previous years (our scanner was a tad bit smaller than the clendar pages, so some edges are missing).
Order From: Dennis Prusik--Dept 1A, 1701 Ninth St, Green Bay, WI 54304. Cost is $10 each plus $2 shipping
(prices for 2012 calendar--if you are looking for another year,
check with Dennis).
While you're at it, ask Dennis how you can donate
to the Wisconsin Land Fund.
2010 grants are listed below. See our August 2008 newsletter for a description of that year's grants from the fund. Due to the economy, no grants were dispersed for 2009 but the Fund did continue its pledge to the Northeastern Wisconsin Invasive Species Endowment Fund.
The following six grants were awarded May 2010 by the Wisconsin Land Fund:
1) $400 to the Natural Heritage Land Trust to help purchase 100 acres adjoining the Empire Prairies State Natural Area in southern Wisconsin. This property has four prairie remnants, including a very high-quality dry mesic-prairie, and harbors the state-endangered red-tailed leaf hopper.
2) $500 to the Natural Heritage Land Trust to facilitate the partial donation of a conservation easement on 80 acres in the Black Earth Creek watershed, a designated class 1 trout stream in Dane County. It is surrounded by hundreds of nearby acres in public trust, or with privately held conservation easements. The property has a small area of restorable dry prairie, a rare ecosystem in Wisconsin. Within the dry prairie, a population of Hill's Thistle (a state threatened species) has already been identified.
3) $600 to the North Central Conservancy Trust to help place a donated conservation easement on 16 acres in Portage County. The property fronts one of the few minimally developed lakes in Portage County. The properly is also surrounded by a tamarack swamp with rare orchids and pitcher plants that is the headwaters of the Tomorrow River. The property supports a mature hardwoods forest and a pristine tamarack bog, and floating bog mat with wild cranberries, a rare ecosystem in central Wisconsin.
4) $700 to the Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust to help place a donated conservation easement on 34 acres in Marinette County. The Little Wausaukee River, a crystal clear class 1 trout stream meanders through the entire length of the property. The Land Trust and the property owner are developing a management plan to restore the property to pre-European settlement native forest habitat. The state threatened wood turtle has been found nearby. Native brook trout reproduce naturally in this river.
5) $800 to the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust to help purchase 112 acres along the famed Kinnickinnic River, a class 1 trout stream and an "outstanding resource water", both the highest classifications of rivers in Wisconsin. The property is within the DNR's Western Prairie Habitat Restoration Area. It will be restored to be available to the many local endangered and threatened plants in need of habitat.
6) $900 to the Northeast Wisconsin Land Trust to facilitate the donation of conservation easements on 142 acres of land in Oconto County. This property will protect 2,600 ft. of shoreline as well as two intact islands on Archibald Lake. It is surrounded by the Nicolet National Forest and will provide a substantial buffer for an active Great Blue Heron rookery in the adjacent Cathedral of the Pines State Natural Area.
