If you missed the Friends of Lapham Peak’s Annual Business Meeting on Nov 11, 2020, we now have a video of the very informative Snow Making Update that John McCarthy shared at the meeting, as our special speaker and presentation for the evening. Annual Reports for the 2019-2020 year are …
A Prescribed Prairie Burn was performed at Lapham Peak on Nov 2 and 17. About 55 acres on the west side of the Park, and about 2-3 acres on the east side of the park were successfully burned. The areas outlined in red on the right were the units involved. …
Invasive Species Removal for Picnic Shelter & Trail Accessibility Project (2019-2020) Project Completed – Summary: In 2019, The Friends of Lapham Peak (FLP) applied for a grant from the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin’s C.D. Besadny Conservation Fund. The grant was to co-fund two efforts, both dealing with the removal …
2020 C.D. Besadny Conservation Funded Project – Complete Read More »
We’ve been monitoring the growth of some very nasty, invasive, thorny, Black Locust trees along the Paul Sandgren Recreational Trail on the far west side of the park, along Cushing Road. This October (2020), volunteers removed as much of this as they could find, and they will continue to monitor …
Our new Winter Recreation Storage Building, that will house our new SnowCat, snowguns, hehicles, and other winter recreation equipment, such as water hoses, pipes, tools, and supplies, is starting to take shape. Volunteers prepared the site, including engineering work, survey work, building design, excavation work, work on a drainage system, …
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Ornamental grasses, including non-native phragmites (also called common reed), pampas grass, miscanthus grass (also called maiden grass) can become a huge issue for our State Parks. Each year, volunteers and DNR rangers try to address various invasive plants (such as buckthorn, honeysuckle, black locust, Japanese barberry, etc) and now ornamental …
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Thanks to the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks for the “Incentive Grant” they awarded us with! With this, volunteers from the Friends of Lapham Peak and our local DNR staff, renovated Lapham Peak’s backpacking campsite! Updates include: a new fire-pit with movable cooking surface 2 new benches a new / …
In 2019, about 327 people volunteered at Lapham Peak at various times, for a total of 11,897.9 hours! Those hours are broken down by area of focus, as follows — Snowmaking: 6,202.2; Conservation: 2,977.5; General Friends Activities: 2,582.2; Nature Center: 136.0; TOTAL: 11,897.9 Hours
Work began Monday, Aug 3, 2020 on site preparation for access and footings, for the new Winter Equipment Storage Building at Lapham Peak! The new building will house our new Snowcat (Pisten Bully 100) and other winter related equipment. Please help us with the final funding for the snowcat and new …
Site Prep for New Winter Equip Storage Building has Begun Read More »
We keep going and going, carefully, but we keep going! The Friends of Lapham Peak have continued to support the Park this spring and summer with fundraising, memorials (bricks & benches), with grants for our Habitat work – prairie and woodlands, grants for our Butterfly Garden, for flowers, for new …
