Water Sector Mentoring and Employment Project
Community Water Solutions (CWS) will set up a water science laboratory in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee. Sage Water recently donated an EDS Environmental Discovery System – Water Management System to CWS which had been housed at the Global Water Center. The new lab and state-of-the art equipment will be used to teach high […]
Reforestation and Wetland Restoration Program
Our funding will help Ducks Unlimited participate in MMSD’s Reforestation and Wetland Restoration Program in the Milwaukee area. Funding will support the staff necessary to engineer, design and implement wetland restoration projects. MMSD has set a goal of planting 6,000,000 trees and restoring 4,000 acres of wetlands over the next 10 years. DU has signed […]
Milwaukee Environmental Youth Collaborative
Thirteen youth serving environmental organizations with internship programs in Milwaukee have come together to better coordinate their efforts and to create a clear pathway for youth who are interested in further pursuing their environmental interests, either as a passion or as a future career. This grant will help us ensure that high school students enrolled […]
Building Capacity for Public Wetland Restorations
This grant would support the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s efforts to restore wetlands on lands owned by the Department of Natural Resources. The surge of WDNR wildlife biologist retirements in the past few years has left the state without the expertise or bandwidth to undertake restorations on the hundreds of thousands of acres of restorable wetlands […]
Completion of the designation of the Bay of Green Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
The NERR headquarters on Green Bay will serve as a research hub for Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. At the local level, the NERR will offer a coordinating force to better manage, restore, and promote the Green Bay ecosystem. A grant from the Fund will continue to support the position at UWGB responsible for shepherding […]
Coastal Lake Michigan Habitat Restoration Project
This grant will support on-the-ground restoration at five popular state-owned sites along or near Lake Michigan. Projects will include rain garden installations, wetland restorations and invasive species management at Havenwoods State Forest, Kohler-Andrae State Park, Lakeshore State Park, Point Beach State Forest, and Red Banks Alvar State Natural Area. At Kohler-Andrae activities will include rain […]
Watershed Refuge Replanting: A Future for Endangered Monarchs
The Monarch Conservancy is located on western edge of the Milwaukee County Grounds near the Menomonee River. The site serves as an important migratory flyway for birds and the monarch butterfly. The Friends of the Monarch Trail will create a more biodiverse plant community in the wetland and stream areas on the western side of […]
Expanding Ecological Restoration in the Lake Michigan Basin
The Land Restoration School (LRS) will help restore sites owned and managed by the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust (OWLT) and the UW-Milwaukee Field Station. The LRS is a new immersive, program to train future generations of professional ecological restorationists through hands on, intensive learning. This project will lead to on-the-ground water quality improvements at sites […]
Green Infrastructure and Master Plan
Bookworm Gardens is a wonderful book-themed botanical garden in Sheboygan. Located on 7.5 acres, Bookworm Gardens currently includes over 75 different gardens all inspired by children’s books. More than 80,000 people a year visit the gardens and visitor numbers have gone up significantly in recent years. Based on this demand, Bookworm Gardens is expanding to […]
East River Flood Mitigation Project
The City of Green Bay has faced frequent flooding on the East River due to changes in the frequency and intensity of storm events, undersized stormwater infrastructure and development pressure in the area. Sixteen flood and flash flood events have occurred since 1990, including severe flooding in 2019 that resulted in the Governor declaring a […]