You may have seen this work crew over the past few weeks removing fence posts, fence line and invasive shrubs along Pheasant Branch and Balzar Roads. We have now removed over 300 metal fence...
Prescribed Burn in the SE area of Pheasant Branch Conservancy on Late Monday Morning, April 26th
A prescribed burn will be conducted Monday, later morning by Quercus in the SE area of Pheasant Branch Conservancy. Please be advised to consider this activity as you plan for hiking, running or otherwise...
Volunteer to Help Maintain Our Propagation Garden
Volunteers Wanted for Our Propagation Garden! Help is needed to maintain the propagation garden. The establishment and success of the Propagation Garden has been overwhelming. Now help is needed in order to continue that...
Wetland burn Friday, April 3rd in the morning at 9:30…
There will be a prescribed burn tomorrow morning, Friday, April 3rd taking place in the wetland area just south of the homestead site from Frederick’s Spring Stream on the East to the Western border...
“Ceremonial Seeding Celebration” of the new addition to Pheasant Branch Conservancy
On March 17th, a Ceremonial Seeding Celebration took place in the SE 40-acre quadrant of the new addition to Pheasant Branch Conservancy. Dane County Executive Joe Parisi was joined by Dane County Parks staff,...
“Seed the Need” has accomplished the seeding of the first 40-acre quadrant in the addition to Pheasant Branch Conservancy
On March 3, 2021 Dane County Parks under the supervision of Shane Otto and Lars Higdon and with the assistance of the Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy, accomplished the seeding of the first quadrant...
Site2-Seasonal Transitions of Pheasant Branch Conservancy
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Pheasant Branch Conservancy: Yearly Transitions from 6 Sites
Our Land Manager, Rob Schubert, asked me in early Fall of 2019 if I was interested in a new photographic project. He explained that he was interested in following the seasonal transitions within PBC...
Help us plant Our Prairie Propagation Garden!
The Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy would like to add plants to a Propagation Garden in the Conservancy. The garden is used to propagate native plant species for prairie and savanna restoration efforts, provide...
The first Restoration and Management workday of 2021 was a success on a mild winter day (1/16/21)!
Deadfall, invasive and otherwise undesirable cuts from shrubs and trees were all piled and burned near the area just downstream from where the intermittent Acker parcel stream meets the Frederick’s lesser springs south of...