Project: Multiple
County: Multiple
By Peter Ziegler, Project Director
Project season is rolling along. Thanks to many of our members, and those they know, I have gotten more project requests this season than ever before. This is a good thing from WWA’s perspective, as it allows us to maximize our dollars to the best possible habitat projects in the state. The more options we have, the better chance of having more impact with the projects we can choose to work on. As an example, I just looked at four potential projects in Manitowoc County in a single day this past month. I submitted two more permits in the last week and already have a couple permits for projects ready to go on hand. I hope to get a couple more submitted soon, so once the conditions are appropriate we can move ahead with putting more habitat on the ground.
By next spring this drainage ditch will cease to exist. This is a restoration project WWA is working in Waushara County
Blandings Turtle
I visited a project we did last year and saw the importance of what we (WWA and our members) do. I crossed paths with a Blandings Turtle, a state species of concern. This enforces that the work we do is important to all wetland dependent species. On that same trip I saw a single hen Mallard with 17 ducklings. That is a lot of ducklings for a single hen. Either another hen was around or she met her fate and the ducklings most likely merged into a single group with another clutch creating this larger group I noticed. Normal max clutch size for mallards is about 13, so I suspect this was two clutches. Nevertheless, great to see this kind of production in Wisconsin on our habitat projects.