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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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,
Ornamental Grass can be a Huge Problem for the Park Read More »
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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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 /
2019 Volunteer Hours Read More »
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,
Site Prep for New Winter Equip Storage Building has Begun Read More »
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,
FLP are still VERY Active! Read More »
2020 has been an awful year for garlic mustard in SE Wisconsin (maybe all over). Within Lapham Peak, we try to pull the Garlic Mustard (in selected various locations) when it’s flowering, and at times we also spray some of it with herbicides. Most of this work is headed up
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January 20 – Martin Luther King Jr Day, volunteers helped our Buckthorn Busters clear invasive species from the front of the park!
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Nov 16th work-day! Thank you to everyone of the 50+ volunteers who came out to help us! Pictures below:
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