Spring 2008 Currents Front Page
General Interest
Updating Our Mission Statement & Values
River Awareness Month
Rain Gardens, Rain Barrels Workshop
Garlic Mustard Pull & River Clean-Up
Garlic Mustard Cooking Contest
Garlic Mustard - A Foe to Dread
It's for the Birds: WI River Bank Restoration
Grants
Current Ideas: Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Fish Species Survey
Natural Resources Foundation Besadny Grant Awarded
Columns
As I write this column for the “Spring” issue of the newsletter, it’s cold & rainy outside. Yet the grass is turning green and I know the garlic mustard is popping up. I’m going to need to travel my own yard soon and look for the plants I need to remove this year.
I’ve been doing this for several years now. I tend to concentrate on the 2nd year plants in the flower beds. The plants unfortunate enough to try to take root in the lawn won’t last long at all. Garlic mustard hasn’t learned to duck under the mower like dandelions have.
I don’t have as many bags of garlic mustard as I started, but it’s in more of the beds now. Did I also say I have squirrels? I’ll bet that some of you are in the same fix I’m in too!
So, you have a standing invitation to join us for the Garlic Mustard Pull & Cooking Contest. Learn how to identify it and remove it, before it chokes out your favorite plants!
Inside this issue, you’ll also find a report on the slough survey grant we were awarded last July. There will also be a talk on the research in the last half of May. We’ve planned it for a weeknight, so you can come and hear the talk and still have your weekend to play!
And in the spirit of can-say-thanks-enough, I’d like to thank all the businesses and individuals who are working to make our May events possible! You really ARE River PALs!