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WCHF Vice President Receives Award

WCHF Uncategorized July 1, 2019February 3, 2021Conservation Heroes, Event

We are pleased to say WCHF Vice President Donna VanBuecken has received an Invader Crusader Award in the category of Volunteer Individual from the Wisconsin Invasive Species Council. The ceremony was held at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin on June 5, 2019.

Here’s what the Council had to say about Donna’s award:

Donna VanBuecken has worked with invasive species for nearly 40 years, beginning as an at-large member of the Wild Ones and then as a founding member of the Fox Valley Area Chapter, where she has served on the Board of Directors for over 20 years. She also served as the national Wild Ones first Executive Director for 17 years.

As a founding member of the Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin, …

WCHF featured in Our Wisconsin Magazine

WCHF Uncategorized May 8, 2019February 3, 2021Conservation, Conservation Heroes

This past AprilMay, the Our Wisconsin magazine featured an excellent article about the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame and a number of their inductees. Here is the articleRead more

The Cap Times features WCHF Inductee Aroline Schmitt

WCHF Uncategorized May 6, 2019February 3, 2021Conservation, Conservation Heroes

Bill Berry, State Columnist for The Cap Times, published an article Remembering conservation champion and citizen activist Aroline Schmitt on April 29, 2019. Those of you who attended the 2019 WCHF Induction Ceremony would have heard the stories first hand, but Bill does a great job of encapsulating many of them in this article.Read more

UW Arboretum added to National Register of Historic Places

WCHF Uncategorized May 2, 2019February 3, 2021Conservation, Conservation Heroes

Father of Wildlife Management Aldo Leopold and Father of Wisconsin Plant Ecology John Curtis conceived of, and designed and planted, with the help of others, the first restored prairie in the world -- Curtis Prairie. This planting showed it was possible to restore an ecosystem and to preserve endangered habitats. Because of that determination, the UW Arboretum has recently been listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the birthplace of restoration ecology.Read more

What’s New on the WCHF Website

WCHF Uncategorized April 9, 2019February 3, 2021Conservation Heroes

We've recently updated our website....Take a look at the new landing page for WCHF Inductees. Just click on a photo and you're at the biographical information for the inductee.Read more