The third annual Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy Photo Competition is now underway!
Grab your camera and visit the Conservancy today!
Tree Swallows by Nancy Korn
Now is your chance to show the community what piques your interest in the Conservancy! Show us what you love most, capture your emotion, and use your creativity through photography.
Grand prize winners in youth, high school, and adult categories will each receive $100, and all winning images will be featured in a gallery exhibition held at the end of the year. The competition closes August 1, 2012.
View the 2011 1st Place Winners
View the 2010 1st Place Winners
Order Your 2012 Phenology Calendar Today
Learn about nature with our Pheasant Branch Conservancy calendar
Record your personal phenology observations in the 2012 Friends of
Pheasant Branch Conservancy Phenology Calendar. The calendar again
features photographs from our photo contest. It will also include a
checklist for seasonal animal and plant events, sunrise, sunset and
weather data, and monthly nature notes.
The calendars make great gifts!
$15 for one calendar
$12.50 each additional calendar delivered to the same address
Download
the Phenology Calendar Order Form
Temporary Trails
Explore new areas of the prairies this fall and winter
Last Fall, hundreds of students worked with Pheasant Branch volunteers and County Naturalist Wayne Pauly to collect seeds. The County mowed some trails for the harvest, and while seed collection has ended, it’s still a great opportunity for you to walk into areas that are hard to get to the rest of the year. We’ve attached a map of these seasonal trails, developed by Tom Klein, a volunteer. Enjoy!
Download
the Dane County Seasonal Trail Map
Surf the Web and Help the Friends
Who do you GoodSearch and GoodShop for? Use this online search engine to help protect and restore the Pheasant Branch Conservancy! How does using the internet help protect the environment, you ask…
GoodSearch is a search engine (powered by yahoo, so it’s a good one) that donates money to a user specified non-profit each and every time a search is performed. The money comes from advertisers. If 100 FOPB members search twice/day for an entire year, we would earn $730 a year.
GoodShop is connected to many online retailers, such as Amazon and Best Buy. The user selects a non-profit and the retailer donates a percentage of the sale. If you make online purchases, please check to see if the retailer is a part of this socially responsible website.
We need your support to keep our restoration and education efforts going strong. Start using GoodSearch and GoodShop today – remember to check the Friends of Pheasant Branch as the non-profit.