On Saturday, Feb 27, 2010 the Annual Banquet of the Prairie Enthusiasts (TPE) was held in Monroe, WI, hosted by the Prairie Bluff Chapter. Members of this chapter were part…

I just finished entering all my 2009 field notes in an Excel file. I have been doing this every year for the past seven or eight years, and it has…

Kathie and I spent a week in South Carolina and part of the time we visited several interesting longleaf pine savannas. The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is a fascinating fire-controlled…

The cut stems of some clonal species, such as gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa), are quite sensitive to glyphosate but grow as dense stands with lots of small stem close together.…

Over the years that I have been watching the snow melt on the south-facing slope of Pleasant Valley Conservancy, I have noticed the patchiness of the melt. As the photo…

Pleasant Valley Conservancy is part of a group of natural areas in southern Wisconsin that share five summer interns through the Madison Audubon Society. There are five organizations, called the…

If you have been following this blog, you know that for the past several years we have been constructing a tree database for Pleasant Valley Conservancy. We are permanently marking,…

There have been a few days lately when the weather brought about lots of large ice crystals on the vegetation at Pleasant Valley Conservancy. Sharp cold nights with early-morning fog…

It has taken me a while, but I have finally finished my summary of our trip to southeastern Arizona savanna areas. This is primarily a photo show, with captions and…

Now that we are back from Arizona, and the weather is not good for the kind of brush work we need to do at Pleasant Valley Conservancy, I am spending…