Project: Statewide Wildlife Areas
County: Multiple
By Bruce Ross, Executive Director
Despite the government shutdowns due to the pandemic, life, and nature, go on at WWA’s Adopt-a-Wildlife Area program. And that program to assist at public hunting areas continues strongly during the pandemic: Ron and Anne Churchill, Chris Scheder and many others cleaned up access and parking lots at Paradise Valley, Beaver Dam, and Reagon Lake and other locations. Purple loosestrife beetle have, well, been loosed. And buckthorn and other invasives have been removed. This kind of work is more needed than ever as DNR crews just aren’t permitted to assemble and do the work themselves. Here’s a few of the pictures our AWA lead volunteer, Mike Alaimo, has shared of the hours of volunteer work that has been put in over the last month in keeping AWA areas clean and accessible:
