Groundswell/Dane County purchased a 10-acre streambank and trail easement on Halfway Prairie Creek for streambank restoration and extension of the Wolf Run Trail that connects Mazomanie to Wisconsin Heights School. Learn more at:
https://groundswellwisconsin.org/page.asp?page=BECstreamprotection

BECWA is the Black Earth Creek Watershed Association, and you can learn a lot from their newsletter and website (www.becwa.org). This is an important partner organization for all who care about the cold water resource in Dane County. It’s a membership organization that is very much worth joining.

By Topf Wells

As Bradd and Sara leave for wonderful and richly deserved new jobs, they have earned the traditional Roman farewell to a great hero or heroine. They have been resolute  champions of many of our most cherished trout streams and great friends and allies of SWTU. Bradd has left the position of DNR Fish Biologist for Lafayette and Grant Counties and the lower Wisconsin River to become the DNR’s Trout Coordinator with added responsibilities for rivers. Sara is joining the DNR in the State Parks and Trails Program; among her many duties for Dane County were the trout stream easement and restoration program. When you fish the many new easements and restorations in the Blue River watershed or enjoy the thriving brook trout of the Steiner Branch, you can thank Bradd. Sara was the key figure in acquiring and restoring over 20 miles of trout streams, many in the Sugar River watershed. They always answered any request for help or information from SWTU and were great partners in some productive projects. We wish them the best.

* hail and farewell : I salute you, and goodbye

Construction for the County’s stream restoration project on Badger Mill Creek in Verona started in early August. The stream restoration project is being done in conjunction with the City of Verona’s East Side Interceptor Gravity Sewer Project, which has largely been completed. Verona started first and its restoration, best seen upstream of the Bruce St. bridge, is now complete. The County’s stretch, further upstream, has now started. The lower stretch looks good with lots of rock work. Thanks to Curt Riedl, of the SWTU Board, for his leadership on this project and the City of Verona. Dane County reports the work is progressing well on its property.

Topf Wells provides a first look at the project Read More