Helping the Hummingbirds

Helping the Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are on their way back to Wisconsin! If you're humming with excitement, you're not alone! Hummingbirds are a beloved species regardless of where you live, and for the Wisconsinites waiting for their return each spring, nothing is more exciting than seeing the first Ruby-throated Hummingbird of the year.

If you love hummers and put out a hummingbird feeder, these are your Top 5 To-Do (and Don’t-Do) List to keep these little beauties happy and healthy in your yard.

Photo by Monica Hall

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The Earth Day Eight

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Happy Earth Day! In 1970, Wisconsin's own Gaylord Nelson helped launch the first Earth Day with the intent to make a lasting progress toward protecting the planet and its inhabitants.

Change that is authentic. Meaningful. Big-time. With heart and soul.

That's what all of us are working toward too! If you're looking for ways you can meaningfully celebrate the Earth today and beyond, we have eight great ideas for you below.

Photo by Monica Hall

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Earth Day and Mirth Day

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Earth Day is many things to many people but it has been and always will be a political event. While Gaylord Nelson and others created the day to celebrate the natural beauty and vitality of Earth and the steps then undertaken to protect it, another purpose was to mobilize the political will to take more decisive action to protect our environment and natural resources.

With the changed climate severely damaging our earth a bit more every day, we encounter lots of earnest advice to change our ways—for example, stopping or severely reducing our use of fossil fuels, meat, air travel, automobiles. I won't argue with those admonitions but joy is sometimes better motivation than duty.

Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren

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Conservation Congress needs your voice

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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider participating in the on-line Wisconsin Conservation Congress Spring Hearing and Elections. They begin (tonight!) at 7:00pm on Monday, April 12 and end at 6:59pm on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Visit this website to access the questions and submit your feedback.

Photo by Carolyn Byers

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A terrible idea.

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The WDNR Southwest Savanna Draft Master Plan released March 18, 2021, reports the DNR's recommendations and options for managing DNR lands in the part of southwest Wisconsin historically dominated by prairies and savannas. It includes all or parts of Lafayette, Grant, Iowa, Green, and Dane Counties. Much of the plan documents the importance of the prairies and savannas and emphasizes the need to preserve or restore those habitats which have declined dramatically for many decades.

Photo courtesy of WDNR

 
 
 
 
 
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