Wild Reads

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Wild Reads is where we share stories about and from partners, landowners, and friends throughout the conservation community. Let us know if you have a story, book review, poem, or photos to share. We don't promise to publish everything we receive, but we'd love to know what you're reading, writing, and what you think is worth sharing.

Here's how two retired college professors became honored members of Mississippi Valley Conservancy's Bluffland Guardians – a story 50 years in the making. In the spring of 1971, 15 Knox…
Conservancy Stories
As an accredited land trust, we are required to visit the properties we protect once a year to ensure that we're upholding our commitment to landowners to protect their land…
RICHLAND COUNTY, WI – The cold, clear headwaters of Little Fancy Creek babble in the rocky creek bed that crosses under the drive upon arriving at the farm of Susan…
Conservancy Stories
Meet our new development coordinator. Leanne Kruse grew up just a hop, skip, and a jump from the Indian Ocean and surrounded by the bush in Perth, Western Australia. She…
Conservancy Stories
Public Input Session - Trailhead Parking Fee’s South Side Neighborhood Center - 1300 South 6th Street, La Crosse, WI August, 10th at 3:30pm – 4:30pm August 17th at 5:30pm –…
Hikes
Sightings
It started as a perfect day. The day after Independence Day, I locked in the address for Borah Creek Prairie on my GPS, filled the Jeep with gas, and took…
Ever wondered what the Driftless Region is like from a new perspective? Contours: A Literary Landscape published by the Driftless Writing Center, shows readers a quick glimpse about an area…
Here's a heads up for anyone in the Driftless Area concerned about land use and other natural resource issues, particularly in this time of climate change. La Crosse County has…
Book Reviews
The way the environment, specifically the land, has been treated over the years is starting to show its effects. These actions toward the land have consequences and it seems that…
What’s Cooking?
As rhubarb season winds down, it reminds me of how fortunate we are to live here in our beautiful Driftless Area. We have an abundance of locally grown food in…
Book Reviews
What does it mean to be living? Despite our own definition of what it means to be alive, we have learned in school that there are 7 characteristics of life…
When reading a text from 70 years ago it is easy to question the relevance of it to life today. The work in question is “The Land Ethic” by Aldo…
Book Reviews
How does the apocalypse begin? Faulty medicine? Endless wars? Artificial intelligence overthrowing the human race? All three have been forecasted in movies and novels as possible apocalyptic beginnings; but, what…
The poetry of Lisa Bellamy gives its audience a unique look at the natural world through the lens of poetry. Lisa Bellamy, a Wisconsin native, is the author of many…