Project: Statewide Wildlife Areas
County: Statewide
WWA volunteer Melanie Love during spring chainsaw training at Mead earlier this year
By Mike Alaimo, Lead AWA Volunteer
This has been quite the exercise in planning to get our scheduled Adopt-A-Wildlife Area projects done, but there has been some great progress by the AWA teams!
George W. Mead Wildlife Area: With just over a month left of their first year of adoption, the Wausau team silently banked all their required volunteer hours. They will be submitting a full boat of 100 hours after their wood duck box work with UW Stevens Point and the fully attended Chain Saw Training event. Congrats to Melanie and the team in Wausau!
Spring work at Jackson Marsh
Jackson Marsh Wildlife Area: At the Annual State Meeting, there was only a handful of hours volunteered on a quickly approaching anniversary date at Jackson.. Then WWA’s newest board member and long-time Cedar Creek chapter volunteer, Mike Depies, stepped in and paved the way to a successful 60+ hours and $1500 in donated materials to close out the May 23rd reporting year. A BIG THANKS goes out to Mike and all of the Jackson volunteer team!
Rome Pond Wildlife Area: Five months into this year’s contract, the crew from Waukesha and Jefferson are only a handful of hours away from completing 100 hours of required volunteer work. Purple Loosestrife work should take this over the goal line before August. This was a great effort in three months, especially during banquet season! All the team members should be commended for this effort! Great work!
Volunteers at Rome Pond in April
Mud Lake Wildlife Area: Scott is leading the charge and has already put a good dent into the required volunteer hours with habitat and nest structure work. Chain Saw Training is being mustered-up with a large number of slots available. The date is being changed from mid-June and the new date is TBD. Members from all over will be encouraged to participate to help out and receive this valuable training. Details will follow.
Paradise Valley Wildlife Area: Well, I do not know what to say… five minutes from my own home and more or less in my backyard, but we will come up short on
Paradise Valley Wildlife Area
the required volunteer hours due to a number of reasons. I am encouraged that we may receive a new biologist in Waukesha this summer that should help fuel the fire for available projects we can work on out there. We will push on and double our efforts for this next year, with one last effort this weekend opening up an entrance to a parking lot to make it easier to maintain.