Project: Statewide Wildlife Areas
County: Multiple
Project Start Date: 06/01/2019
Project End Date: 07/01/2019
By Mike Alaimo, Lead AWA Volunteer
Summer? Yup, it arrived with a roar and no transition. Nature has made up for lost time based on the gains seen in our host purple loosestrife plants in the last few weeks. Even with the seemingly endless Seattle-style weather we were having and now the heat and humidity, hours continue to be clocked by our volunteers!
Mud Lake Wildlife Area: Lead Mud Lake volunteer, Scott Hamele, on a solo mission helped to restore damage from a washout at the wildlife area. It just proves how less than a half day’s work can make a significant impact on the infrastructure of our wildlife areas. Thanks, Scott, for taking the initiative!
A Helping Hand: Regular wildlife area volunteers Ron and Anne Churchill engaged in a goose banding activity in Jefferson. The core group of the team were DNR personnel in training. An almost all day affair, the group was successful in tagging geese. Some of the geese were already sporting some bling and it was not their first rodeo in a goose round-up! Thanks again to Ron and Anne (pictured below) for volunteering outside of the AWA box to support the DNR!
Rome Pond Wildlife Area: The beetles have found new homes in our host loosestrife plants. They were infested by the DNR last week and will soon be ready to be deployed out in the marsh. I will be reaching out to local boat owners to help support the deployment in the next few weeks, as I will be traveling out of state during “prime” time for the dispersal. Check out our past project updates on this invasive species initiative!
Beetle infected purple loosestrife seeded into Rome Pond in July 2017.
Chain Saw Training: I have not been contacted by anyone outside a few previous responses for the August 17th planned training date at Lake Mills. Please contact me at 262-443-4674 if interested.