Our Mission
The Blue Mounds Area Project is a community-based organization that seeks to inspire, inform and empower private landowners in the Southwestern Wisconsin region to enjoy, protect and restore native biodiversity and ecosystem health.
News and Updates
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2010 Winter Education Series
Liven up the winter blahs with four warm evenings of discussion, fellowship, and education. Find out more...
January 21, 2010 Interactions of Prairie Insects and Plants - Andrew Williams, president of Prairie Biotic Research, Inc.
7:00 PM at the Community Room of the Mt. Horeb Branch of the State Bank of Cross Plains, 1740 Co Rd ID, Mt. Horeb (across from the Norsk Golf Bowl)
February 4, 2010 Groundwater and Springs in the Driftless Landscape - Madeline Gotkowitz, hydrogeologist with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (WGNS).
7:00 PM at WGNS's Research Collections and Education Center in Mt. Horeb, 248 S. Blue Mounds St, (just south of the Military Ridge Bike trail). The presentation will be followed by a tour of the facility.
Febbruary 18, 2010 Invasive Species Control: The State's Approach - With DNR invasive species specialists.
7:00 PM at the Community Room of the Mt. Horeb Branch of the State Bank of Cross Plains, 1740 Co Rd ID, Mt. Horeb (across from the Norsk Golf Bowl)
March 4, 2010 Bringing Nature Home: Native Landscaping and Wildlife Enhancement - Susan Carpenter, native plant gardener for the UW-Arboretum and Alanna Koshellek, stewardship coordinator for the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
7:00 PM at the Community Room of the Mt. Horeb Branch of the State Bank of Cross Plains, 1740 Co Rd ID, Mt. Horeb (across from the Norsk Golf Bowl)
- The Fall 2009 BMAP newsletter is now on the newsletters page.
- Information on the BMAP Citizen Monitoring Project helping landowners track the health of rare and endangered species on their land.
Links for the 2009 Landowner Workshop "Exploring Your Land's Past and Future"
Part of developing an ecological plan for your land is learning about its past, and one of the tools of the "eco-sleuth" is your computer and the Internet. The links we used for the May workshop can be found here.
Contact Us
Blue Mounds Area Project
PO Box 332
Mt. Horeb, WI 53572
Email:
info@bluemounds.org