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Workday + Picnic = Happy Trout + Happy Volunteers

By Topf Wells Jim Hess had lots of help with one of the best SWTU workdays ever from Scout Troop 104, the DNR, and some great SWTU volunteers.  And then, the Rudds, our kind and generous hosts put… Read More

Make a Difference and Some Friends – Our Next Workday

Smith Conley Workday June 2022

October 8, 2022 – Smith-Conley Creek, 2800 Cty Rd H, Barneveld If you’ve never joined one before, please know the work is easy, you can work at your own pace and there is something to do for everyone…. Read More

A Productive and Fun Workday

By Topf Wells Jim has the new workday season off to a great start. Eleven stalwarts arrived at the Falk Wells Wildlife Area on the Sugar River between Verona and Paoli. Attendance was down a bit – maybe the… Read More

SAWW Level 2 Chainsaw Safety Trainings from Dane County Parks

All sawyers at our Workdays have completed at least Level 1 Chainsaw Training. It’s a requirement for doing chainsaw work in any park and helps to ensure a vital level of expertise and safety. Those who’ve completed Level… Read More

A Heroic Workday – Crew Takes on Wild Parsnip

By Jim Hess, SWTU Conservation Chair I want to give a special shout out to the following volunteers that showed up for a mid-summer special workday to battle out of control wild parsnip and other invasives in our… Read More

Special Workday – Saturday, July 16

wild parsnip

Removing Wild Parsnip at the Basco Wildlife Unit By Jim Hess, SWTU Conservation Chair On Saturday, July 16 we will be having a special workday to clear wild parsnip from the prairie we planted at the Basco Wildlife… Read More

A Great End to the Spring Workdays

Smith Conley Stream Workday

By Topf Wells Jim Hess has more than earned his trip in search of smallmouth bass and pike eager to take a fly with his brilliant organization of the fifth and (almost) final SWTU workday of the spring… Read More

Turkey Nest Narrowly Avoided: May 14 Stream Workday

Smith Conley Workday June 2022

By Topf Wells Thanks to Jim Hess and an even bigger, more varied cast of characters than usual, we had another successful work day, this time on Smith Conley. The DNR folks, led by Justin Haglund, were a… Read More

Where There’s a Willow There’s a Workday: Fun Planting Trees

Willow Creek Workday

By Topf Wells The Jim/Justin double team produced a good workday for us and Willow Creek. With Jim and Justin having devoted hours to preparation, about a dozen SWTU members with some help from the Nohr and Coulee… Read More

Scouts to the Rescue: Workday recap

Davidson Creek Stream Workday

By Topf Wells Fourteen intrepid SWTU members, veterans and rookies, young and old, showed up on Saturday, 4/30 to wrestle piles of limbs, logs, and brush into brush bundles at the Davidson site on the Sugar River.  With… Read More