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looking out for lookout Prairie

Staff and volunteers removed invasive woody plants including buckthorn, sumac, black locust, and birch from Lookout Prairie in Hixon Forest in La Crosse. The important restoration efforts of the Friends of the Blufflands can continue at the Prairie thanks to a grant from the C.D. Besadny Conservation Fund. This photo shows the prairie AFTER restoration efforts.

off the iPads and into the woods

Go Outside Fund grant funds allowed students who otherwise would have been unable to afford the trip fee to join their classmates on a trip to Central Wisconsin Environmental Station. 53 sixth-graders from McKinley Elementary School in Stevens Point immersed themselves in nature through campfires, archery, teambuilding, and scientific observation.