Yesterday Kathie, Susan, and I did the annual Audubon Christmas bird count at Pleasant Valley Conservancy. This is the 112th annual Christmas bird count run by the National Audubon Society,…

The New Year's Day ski/snowshoeing event is canceled due to the lack of snow!The last three winters we have had lots of early December snow which stayed and stayed, making…

The snowless December has been fantastic for work in the woods, and Amanda has been making nice progress. The photo shows an area that has just been opened up. The…

This is a photo Amanda took Wednesday when she was getting ready to start work. Quite a bit different weather from what we had in Madison (where there was just…

The oak woodlands at Pleasant Valley Conservancy are getting more attention in our restoration work, so it seemed a good idea to update the web pages. I have added some…

We had a nice light snow Friday night, making this an ideal time to burn a brush pile. We have been building one major pile since mid-summer and we generally…

I am in the process of preparing an extended spreadsheet which includes all of the prescribed burns we have done since we first started in 1997. For each year I…

This week IPAW (Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin) held a nice symposium as part of the North Central Weed Science Society and the Midwest Invasive Plant Network. Three days of…

Although skiers may be unhappy, this has been a great December for restorationists, and we have been able to do a lot of tasks now instead of in the spring.…

Last summer we lost a large bur oak on our south-facing slope. See last July's post for details.Unfortunately, as the July photo above shows, this tree fell in a dangerous…