Earth Day 2019
Today is an important conservation day. April 22nd is observed as Earth Day. It should serve to remind us that our well-being and that of our descendants is dependent upon a healthy Earth.Read more
Conservation
March is Women’s History Month
March is Women's History Month. Appropriately, this year the WCHF will be inducting on May 13, 2019, a woman infamous for her stand on sustainable forestry. Her name was Aroline Schmitt.Read more
Our Wisconsin features WCHF
The April-May issue of Our Wisconsin magazine features the WCHF! With story and photos, Outdoors Writer Tom Davis highlights the contributions of Menominee tribesman Hillary “Sparky” Waukau, conservation pioneer Increase Lapham, Ice Age Trail founder Ray Zillmer and othersRead more
Mending the Earth
A new book featuring Lorrie Otto quite prominently has hit the shelves. Mending the Earth in Milwaukee, written and published by Ney Tait Fraser, is a how-to guide about natural landscaping in southeastern Wisconsin, but is written in such lyrical fashion it’s like reading about an urban adventure. The stories are about Lorrie Otto and 15 friends and acquaintances, some of who took the plunge as early as the 1970s and 1980s, who began converting their yards to natural landscaping using native plants. Their stories are about a love affair with native flora that continues through to today, and the many photos included in the book only add to the adventure.
Lorrie Otto who led the battle to ban DDT in Wisconsin in the …
Read moreWCHF Receives Notice of Besadny Grant
WCHF was recently notified by the Natural Resources Foundation (NWF) that they will be receiving a C.D. Besadny Conservation grant for $1,000 to be used to develop a Touchscreen Computer Exhibit for Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame Gallery. The actual award will be delivered in person to the WCHF Board on November 3, 2018. Congratulations to WCHF.
Thank you to the Natural Resources Foundation.
List of other grant recipients.…
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