While she was spraying dandelions, Kathie discovered in the middle of our lawn, but quite near the Cabin Prairie, a small animal hole. A dark, somewhat vicious looking creature was…

Madison Audubon is encouraging bat conservation and a group of us constructed about 25 bat houses for installation at various natural areas. Recently, Kathie, Susan, and Marci installed our bat…

Once our south slope starts blooming we know that spring is really here. We have been blessed with great early spring blooms ever since we removed all the invasive brush…

We were given a nice wood duck house by Madison Audubon (via Mark Martin) and installed it yesterday. As the photo shows, it is sitting at the edge of our…

During burn season, we never know what the weather will bring. We had a brief window yesterday (April 23, 2009) and managed to get in our final burns of the…

Despite our successful burns, we still had two more areas to burn. Unfortunately, burn conditions this past week were "too" good, with very low humidities, and all burns were canceled…

It's always nice to see the first flowers of the year. This gives one faith that spring will really come!Early buttercup is almost always the first plant we see in…

"The secret to all prescribed burning is to let the weather work for you. When all environmental factors are right the job is easy." (Wright and Bailey, Fire Ecology.)This statement…

We have been held back from our prescribed burning by the unseasonably cool weather this spring. We had one great burn in the middle of March, and then the weather…

Yesterday we planted a mix of savanna species on the bur oak savannas on the upper part of our south-facing slope. We had a great burn here two weeks ago…