Charles Carlin and our good friends at Gathering Waters are fighting the good fight to preserve the Knowles Nelson Stewardship Program. Click here to read the latest update from their team. You'll recall how an anonymous member of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) was destroying the Pelican River conservation project in NE Wisconsin. The linked article shows that JFC did not even follow its own bad rules and that Governor Evers might have the chance to save the project.

Please follow the explanations and prompts in the article to contact the Governor and ask him to take those steps. By the way, over 700 folks contacted JFC to support the Pelican River project. I bet some Madison Audubon members were in that group.

Thank you!

As we prepare for the holidays, I urge you to take a moment to give back to nature and ask Governor Evers to fund the Pelican River Forest project. Next week, after the blizzard passes, we'll have a winter wonderland that we can enjoy in more mild temperatures, and hopefully good news of Pelican River Forest to go with it.

Have a Merry Christmas, a happy holiday season, and a healthy, peaceful, joyful New Year.

All the best,

Topf Wells, Madison Audubon advocacy committee