Summary
Thanks to our sponsors, the Prairie Partners crew is back in the field and hard at work improving Patrick Marsh and Westport Prairie.
The 2025 Prairie Partners Crew has returned and is already hard at work in the field helping advance conservation where you live!
This year, we’re excited to announce that we have brand-new partners for the program. We partnered with Riverland Conservancy, Ice Age Trail Alliance, and the Wisconsin DNR to hire the intern crew. The crew works four nine-hour days each week, Monday through Thursday, from late May to mid-August. Each workday, the crew is doing restoration work with a different partner on its protected land.
This year, Groundswell has the interns working on Wednesdays, alternating between Westport Prairie and Patrick Marsh from week to week. The crew will remove invasive plant species throughout the season. It’s hard work that will help keep our favorite local green spaces thriving for both wildlife and people. The next time you’re out for a hike and run into the crew, be sure to say hello!
Now, let’s meet the 2025 Prairie Partners crew!
- Sam August, a UW-Madison senior majoring in botany & conservation biology
- Cody Hennings, a UW-Stevens Point junior majoring in forestry
- Karina Kloth, a UW-Madison graduate majoring in environmental studies
- Lexi Kohn, a UW-Madison junior majoring in wildlife ecology
- Jack Maurer, a St. Olaf College junior majoring in biology & environmental studies
Special thanks to our sponsors who are making this wonderful opportunity possible this year!
- Mary Binkley and Dennis Petzke
- Nancy and Lou Bruch
- Nancy and Wes Carter
- Doug and Sherry Caves
- Nancy Heiden
- Susan and Les Hoffman
- Susan and Conrad Jostad
- Jim and Rumi O’Brien
- Cary and Scott Reich
- Lorette Wambach