Summer/Fall 2015 Featured Habitat Work

Project: Fall 2015 Projects

Project Director Peter Ziegler’s (wwawetlands@gmail.com) Fall Updates: “August and September proved to be as busy as I had thought they might be. I was all over the state, from Stevens Point to Green Bay to Milwaukee, conProject2structing projects. If my office is any indication of how much work got done in the field, WWA was pretty successful. There is no open space on the desk, and piles of project files, permits and other random paperwork are scattered about on the floor. I have been warned it needs cleaning and organizing. However, it does not look like I’ll get it cleaned before the southern opener as I’m looking at a few new projects in the center part of the state during this last week of September/beginning of October, and we all know opening day take precedent over everything else.

2015 Habitat ProjectI could not tell you the amount of acres we have completed at this point, that will take some time to summarize, but we did do six projects in 7 weeks and we still have a four more to complete in the coming month.

We had great conditions this year with a dry summer allowing a lot of construction to occur, and then, post-construction, we had some good rains which left many of these wetlands full of water for the first time since they were impacted 100 years ago. I have been getting many reports that the ducks have responded, utilizing these new wetlands.

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It’s always great to be able to get this kind of positive feedback and to know that you have restored another wetland that will help continue the waterfowling traditions and, come spring, will continue to support the breeding population within Wisconsin.”