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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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
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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
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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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FLP received 3 awards from the Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Friends of Lapham Peak, Outstanding Friends Group, 2019 Lapham Peak, Best Accessible Trail, 2019 John McCarthy, Outstanding Friends Group Member, 2019 Several members of the FLP, with the 2019 Outstanding State Parks Friends Group Award 2019 Outstanding Individual State
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