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Lac Lawrann Conservancy now has a weather station located on the property!
The weather station is located on the shed in back of the barn. Information is transmitted from the station to Weather Underground and is updated every minute. This information is available to anyone with an Internet connection...
President’s Message – “Milkweed Garden” Visitors
Greetings, It’s been a while since I posted a president’s note, so I thought I’d better sit down and write one as the heat and the rain at the moment has me sitting inside. A while back I did a post about the monarchs and their generations journey north in the late...
President’s Message – Giving Tuesday
Greetings, Even though many places in our community are currently shut down, the trails and parks in West Bend are open. For the safety of all in the state, Governor Evers issued his “Safer at Home” order in mid-March. Since then the number of people...
President’s Message – Spring 2020
By now most of you have heard that our 33rd annual Wild Flower Sale has been cancelled for this year because of the Covid-19 virus outbreak. While many will be disappointed, given the guidelines from our Governor and the progression of the outbreak, the decision was...
Plant Sale Volunteers to Welcome Lisa Oddis to its Kickoff Breakfast
Bees and Butterflies in trouble! You can help pollinators and butterflies to recover their populations in our area. Lisa Oddis, president of the Menomonee River Area Chapter of Wild Ones will help us figure what to plant to support the bees and butterflies. The Lac...
President’s Message – LLC Pine Plantation
Greetings, As winter is finally upon us, we are well into removing invasive species from our pine plantation. A contractor from the West Bend Elevator has been using a forestry mower to remove the underbrush, almost all of which was invasive buckthorn. Before I...
Registation is Open for the Plant Sale Volunteer Breakfast
The annual Lac Lawrann Plant sale will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2020. The plant sale season actually begins in March with the kickoff breakfast at the Maurin Center. Saturday March 14 we will gather for a potluck breakfast. Long time volunteers will have a...
Friends Remembers Its First President
A sad note to all of our members and volunteers. The founder and first president of the Friends of Lac Lawrann Conservancy, Dan Kline, has passed away. Dan worked to get the organization incorporated in the spring of 1994 and was tireless in his efforts to run and...
President’s Message – December 2019
“ A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in”. This quote drew my attention as I was reading an article that came to my inbox a few days ago. While it has been attributed to many societies, individuals and places, it...
President’s Message – Staff Updates
September already! Usually my notes start with a short natural history of something I’ve seen recently at Lac Lawrann. And while the temperatures are still indicating summer, a lot of changes are happening at Lac Lawrann and that is what I will focus on today. The...