Tickets for the Natural Heritage Land Trust’s 25th Anniversary Stewardship Awards Celebration on May 1, 2008 have sold out thanks to a great response from Land Trust members and the community.

Land acquisition announced on Earth Day largest in city history
David Medaris on Tuesday 04/22/2008 2:13 pm

City, county and state officials are marking Earth Day with an announcement on Tuesday regarding their joint acquisition of 259 acres in Cherokee Marsh …

Bill Novak - 4/22/2008 1:31 pm

The preservation of Cherokee Marsh received a major boost today with the announcement of the purchase of 259 acres of wetlands and uplands, thanks to more than $3 million in grants from the …

The Natural Heritage Land Trust, formerly the Dane County Natural Heritage Foundation, will commemorate 25 years of voluntary land conservation success at its Stewardship Awards Celebration at Monona Terrace on May 1, 2008 starting at 5:30 pm.
From its humble beginnings …

David Mollenhoff to Speak April 8: The Remarkable Power of Great Civic Vision

Everyone is invited to join the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve to hear award-winning author, historian, and environmentalist David Mollenhoff on Tuesday, …

Join friends of Riley for the Riley Reads Leopold Event on Sunday, March 2 at the Riley Tavern Annex from 11:30 am - 2:00 pm. The tavern serves a delicious pancake breakfast from 9am - 12 pm, $6/person, …

The Natural Heritage Land Trust and the Patrick Marsh Conservancy purchased 22.5 acres of restorable wildlife habitat on the southern side of Patrick Marsh by Sun Prairie on Friday. Patrick Marsh is designated as one of 229 Legacy Places …

On Wednesday, October 3, the Natural Heritage Land Trust will receive an award from the Black Earth Creek Watershed Association (BECWA) at the watershed association’s 20th anniversary celebration. The award is in recognition of the land protection work done …

Four new board members were recently elected to three-year terms on the Natural Heritage Land Trust Board: Vicki Elkin, Brenda Haskins, David Rice, and Kevin Shelley.
Vicki Elkin is Stewardship Campaign Director for Gathering Waters Conservancy. From 1998 …

On August 21, 2007, the Town of Dunn and the Natural Heritage Land Trust became co-holders of another farmland conservation easement yesterday. This easement permanently protects 93 acres of farmland in the Town. It is adjacent to several …

The Town of Dunn purchased a 68-acre conservation easement to protect the Everson Farm, located within Dane County’s Lower Mud Lake Natural Resource Area, on June 27, 2007. In the future, the Lower Yahara River Bike and Pedestrian Trail …

The Natural Heritage Land Trust purchased a conservation easement to protect Louis’ Bluff today. The 133.5-acre property, in the Town of Lyndon in Juneau County, includes more than 7,000 feet of undeveloped shoreline on the Wisconsin River, all within …

Explore how each one of us is part of a larger collaborative effort to make the world a better place at:
Caring for Our Local Place on Earth
A full-day, interactive environmental conference featuring keynote speakers Calvin DeWitt and Richard Henderson
Saturday, …

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The Woodland School, based at the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo, is offering several stewardship-related classes for private landowners and public land managers.
The workshops cover a variety of topics, including chainsaw basics; prescribed fire; plant identification; controlling invasive species; and …

On May 11, the Natural Heritage Land Trust purchased a 53-acre parcel of land and transferred it to the Village of Cross Plains for a conservancy park.

The new conservancy park, known as Hickory Hills, is located on the bluffs on …

The Natural Heritage Land Trust is hosting it’s Stewardship Awards Celebration on Thursday, April 27, at the Monona Terrace in Madison. Festivities start at 5:30 p.m.

At our Stewardship Awards Celebration, we’ll honor David Ripp, County Board Supervisor, and Terri …

As a result of the generosity of birder John Feith, the Natural Heritage Land Trust and several other conservation groups received a financial boost from the sales of audio and visual birding guides.

John Feith is the author of a CD …

Partnership leads to conservation success at Patrick Marsh

On Friday, August 5th, the Natural Heritage Land Trust and the Patrick Marsh Conservancy announced the purchase of a 22-acre parcel of land at the Patrick Marsh Natural Resource Site near Sun Prairie. …

Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk invites you to the final public listening/working session on Attain Dane, the County Executive’s plan for deciding where we want to grow and what we want to protect.

The final Attain Dane Listening Session will be …