To celebrate the transition from Pick ‘n Save to Metro Market, the Middleton store donated to local nonprofits. The Friends were one of the lucky groups to receive a $2,500 donation....
Pheasant Branch Conservancy Wins Best Running/ Biking Trail
The Best of Madison 2022 Readers’ Poll is HERE Thank you to everyone who voted the Pheasant Branch Conservancy best running/ biking trail! Check out our Conservancy Maps and get out and enjoy...
Make a Memory Day 2022
On Wednesday afternoon July 27th (1:00-3:30pm), the Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy will be hosting a special event for individuals with memory challenges and their care givers/care partners. The event will be at Orchid...
July Conservancy Day: Evening with PBC Herptiles
Wednesday July 20th 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Location: Orchid Heights Park Shelter Join folks from the Madison Herpetology Society as they bring educational reptile species to the Conservancy and discuss herptiles species in...
Prairie Chase 2022 in the Books
Thanks to Prairie Chase organizer Pete Witucki and all runners, volunteers, musicians and sponsors! It was a rainy but wonderful race day Saturday. Congrats to our race winners!...
RESCHEDULED ALL-IN (ACTIVE LIFELONG LEARNERS IN NATURE) SERIES- Citizen Science in the Conservancy: Grassland Birds
We will no longer be holding the event on Tuesday July 26th. Due to unforeseen health circumstances, we are unable to host the program on that date. We will be rescheduling. That date is...
Spring-Summer 2022 Newsletter Now Available
The Spring-Summer 2022 Newsletter is here! Articles include: National Trails Day- June 4 Prairie Chase- June 25 Co-Presidents letter Feb 2022 Prairie Seeding Joleen Stinson- Dane Co Parks Director Dane Co Parks Foundation Grant...
Wetland Restoration T-shirt
Based on the artwork for a new permanent sign in the conservancy, The Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy are offering a t-shirt with an illustration of a Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta) along with The Friends’...
MOUSY Youth Group Works to Overseed the East Prairie
On May 1st the MOUSY (Madison’s Only United Synagogue Youth) from the Beth Israel Center came out to Pheasant Branch Conservancy to help in overseeding the east prairie below Frederick’s Hill. This area was...
ALL-IN (ACTIVE LIFELONG LEARNERS IN NATURE) SERIES- PRESCRIBED FIRES IN THE CONSERVANCY
MAY 11 @ 8:30AM–10:00AM Active senior adults are invited to join Robert Schubert, land manager for the Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy, as he shares how fire— which was once common across southern Wisconsin—...