ABCThanks Month

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays...the opportunity to show appreciation is something often overlooked in our busy lives.   On our Facebook site through November, I've been giving credit to those individuals and groups who have made the ABC a special place and without whom, it would be difficult to keep up a private conservancy.

This includes....
*   Sarah & Tim for the bench, for providing seed & for chainsaw work in the woods
*  Rich & Brenda for being the adopted "caretakers" of the conservancy, for making bluebird boxes, for hauling stuff and for letting Donny mow the trails.
*   Liesl for bluebird box monitoring
*   Bruce for the osprey nests and coordinating his UW-W classes in doing research
*   WE Energies for hanging the osprey nests
*   The Prairie Enthusiasts (among them Zach and Walter) for their chainsaw and girdling work
*   Cody and his Whitewater High School classes for building blinds and helping with signage
*  Gretchen & Mark and other NRCS and State staff for their assistance in securing funding for burns and other invasive management.
*   Byron for mowing the drumlin 
*  Aaron for eBirding the property so regularly during peak seasons (and for all eBirders who log their findings)
*   Brother Mike and wife Kathy for helping with field trips, events and in offering advice
*   The many professors and students at UW-Whitewater and UW-Madison who have used the property for research and in offering advice on our plants, hydrology, birds, herps, fens, etc.

If I have left off some people, my apologies.  My thanks to all!