On Nov 6, 2021, The Friends of Lapham Peak sponsored a Fall Workday followed by a Chili-lunch for the volunteers. Over 30 volunteers worked on a number of different projects within the park, including: Stacking Firewood at Evergreen for the winter Removing slash (branches) from the trails especially from Evergreen […]
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We’ll have a .7km loop open for skiing on Dec 17! Beginning the week of Dec 13th, volunteer snowmakers began making snow for cross country skiing at Lapham Peak. Our new Pisten Bully 100 (PB100) snow cat is working great to spread the man-made snow. We’ll groom Wednesday night. For
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 /
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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
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