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Welcome to the web site of the Coulee Region Chapter of The Prairie Enthusiasts!
Our Mission Statement: The Coulee Region chapter of The Prairie Enthusiasts was created to protect prairie and related oak ecosystem remnants through acquisition, management and distribution of educational material.
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| Event: | Chapter meeting |
| Date: | Saturday March 23, 2013 |
| Time: | 10:00 am |
| Location: | Cowley Hall Room 301, UW-La Crosse |
| Directions: | A campus map is available at the UW-L website |
| Activities: | We will have our (first) annual prescribed burn refresher meeting. We'll discuss the basics of burning, along with reporting issues from last year's burn season. Conditions permitting, we will conduct a burn in the afternoon as part of the refresher. There will be time for other discussions on a variety of topics of interest to our chapter and TPE as a whole. Meeting agendas are always open, so bring ideas for discussion. Meetings are open to the public. |
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Educational materialsThe Coulee Region Chapter has developed some educational materials for use with landowners. These materials are the very basic information that would be of interest to landowners with goat prairie remnants. Link to materials. | |
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Newsletters | |
| See Coulee Region newsletters for information on what we do. | |
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Prairies we manage | |
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Map of chapter member prairies and sites we work on. | |
Sugar Creek Bible Camp | |
| The Sugar Creek Bible Camp Prairie-Savanna-Woodland Complex contains six acres of this rare dry-prairie and fourteen acres of the globally imperiled oak savanna. Over 140 plant species were recorded on the bluff prairie. Reptiles including the bull snake, blue racer, and six-lined racerunner were also recorded. In 2000, TPE entered into a 10-year agreement to manage this prairie-savanna-woodland complex. Restoration methods of controlled burning, understory thinning, and exotic species removal have provided opportunities for hands on restoration, education, increased biodiversity, and above all maintaining these ecologically important communities for present and future generations to enjoy. TPE has conducted several prescribed burns at the site, including one in 2011. | |
Kickapoo Reserve Prairie | |
| In the late winter of 2001, the Coulee Region chapter seeded forty-six forbs and several grass species (nearly 28lbs.) into a four-acre area near the old dam site along the Kickapoo River in the reserve boundary. This was after we attempted a burn the fall before with some brush cutting involved. The area is for all intents and purposes a pilot project to see how well prairie seeds take over on land that has only mechanical weed control allowed. We've aggressively burned and interseeded in recent years. | |
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