When we have visitors at Pleasant Valley Conservancy, we are sometimes asked how many species we have in our planted prairies. Folks are often surprised when I say there are…

The snow is still good at Pleasant Valley Conservancy, and yesterday was a great day, with lots of sun and upper 20s F. Kathie, Susan, and Marci worked in the…

<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> Madison Audubon Society has just announced its 2009 awards and Kathie and I are pleased that we are to be a recipient. Here is the…

With the temperature below zero F and a foot of snow on the ground, it takes quite a bit of optimism to think about spring, but we have faith that…

The Great Wisconsin Birding and Nature Trails are an excellent project of the Wisconsin DNR, Bureau of Endangered Resources. The new one covering the Southern Savanna Region, just out, includes…

Landowners in southwestern Wisconsin: are you members of the Blue Mounds Area Project? If you can see Blue Mounds from your land, or pass it by on the way to…

The Sandhill Crane Wet Prairie has had a different history than our other planted prairies. It is not from a former ag field, but from a highly degraded wooded area.…

For the last ten years we have been doing the traditional Xmas bird count for the Audubon Society at Pleasant Valley Conservancy. It's an interesting exercise, and sometimes a challenge…

My earlier post described our year-end work pulling together all our species data for 2008. I have now had time to go through the data unit-by-unit. I was particularly interested…

I had to miss it, but Marci and Jim Hess ran our New Year's Day snowshoeing. There had been a bit of fresh snow, and it snowed some more during…