WWOA Foundation Matching Fund Campaign
The WWOA Foundation Board has offered a funding challenge to all our members and friends. They have pledged $4000 of their personal funds, along with a special pledge from WWOA member and longtime supporter of the Seno Center, Dale Lightfuss, to match donations from all our Seno supporters and friends. The additional funding will help fund programs and continued improvement of facilities at the Seno Center and Drumlin Farm.
Giving Categories are:
Acorn, $50.00; Seedling, $100.00;
Sapling, $500; Oak Tree, $1000.
Donations of any amount, of course, are welcome and most appreciated.
Make check payable and send to: WWOA Foundation, Inc., 3606 Dyer Lake Road, Burlington, WI 53105
Wildlife and Chain Saw Safety Workshops
There are still two landowner seminars available in the Master Woodland Steward
seminars. The Seno Center is the host for the series this year which is sponsored by the
UW Stevens Point.
The Wildlife Seminar will be held on Saturday, September 13, and the Chain Saw
Safety Seminar is October 18.
Cost is $20 per session. The program provides participants with classroom
instruction,hands-on learning experiences and field trips that help illustrate concepts
discussed in the classroom. Email us at senocenter@senocenter.org
for registration information, and details.
8,000 Trees Replanted
On May 3rd and 4th, Seno volunteers replanted over 8,000 trees that failed due to
last springs drought in the area. Braving a wet Saturday, but then a pleasant
Sunday, crews machine planted and hand planted the white, red and whte oak and
sugar maple seedlings. Chuck Haubrich furnished the tractor with Nick Spittlemeiser,
and Jerry Lapidakis doing the planting. Joe Arington, Ron Rassmussen, John Taylor and
Mark Lesko hand planted the rough areas and also walked over all the machine palnted
trees to insure they were planted properly. Mark Lesko followed up the next week and
continued hand planting several rough areas not suitable for the planting machine.
Before the trees were planted, Randy Cooper sprayed pre-emergiant herbicides to
control weeds and grasses. With the excellent moisture conditions this year, we are
confident we will have an excellent survival rate and a good stand of future trees.
Prairies Get Treatment
A volunteer crew headed up by fire boss Nick Spittlemeister and assisted by Mark
Lesko, burned the Seno and Drumlin Farm prairies on April 26th. The burns are a
management tool used to control unwanted vegetation and stimulate the prairie plants.
The ten acre Drumlin Farm prairie hadn't been treated for five years and was a
challenge to the crew due to the dense growth. But under Nick's direction the volunteers
carried out a very efficient and safe burning operation. There work will help maintain
these grass lands in productive state for wildlife and prairie habitat.
