Friends and Partners

FOLW Board of Directors


Steve Arnold, Vice-Chair, joined the Board in 2006.

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Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong

Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong is a new resident of the Lake Wingra watershed. She recently received a master’s degree from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design in Landscape Planning and Ecology. While at Harvard, she developed a master plan for a stormwater wetland park for water quality improvement and related education along a highly impacted urban stream in Cambridge, MA. Her undergraduate degree is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in landscape architecture. Cheryl works at the Arboretum as the Ecological Restoration Outreach Specialist for the Earth Partnership for Schools Program and coordinates the Earth Partnership for Families Program. She recently joined the Arboretum’s Stormwater Management Planning Team to help design a stormwater education and outreach plan. She enjoys canoeing, hiking, biking and family time.

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Paul Dearlove, Treasurer, joined the Board in summer, 2007. Since 1998, he has worked as the lake and watershed manager for the Lake Ripley Management District near Cambridge, WI. In this capacity, he conducts limnological research, monitors lake quality, prepares and implements management plans, supervises weed-harvesting operations, and directs a landowner outreach and cost-sharing program to carry out a variety of Best Management Practices in the watershed. Paul is a 1996 graduate of the U.W.-Madison’s Water Resources Management (M.S.) program, and a 2006 graduate of the Wisconsin Lake Leaders Institute. He has lived in the Regent Neighborhood on the north side of Lake Wingra since 2002. His free time is spent fishing, hunting, gardening, biking, jogging, and enjoying time with his wife and son.

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Matt Diebel

Matt Diebel, Secretary, joined the board in November 2005. He is a PhD student at the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison, studying stream restoration in agricultural landscapes. Matt also has a M.S. in Water Resources Management from UW. He is interested in prioritizing aquatic resource management across diverse landscapes. He enjoys studying and making maps, bicycling, skiing, and canoeing.

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Anne Forbes

Anne Forbes, former Chair, is one of the founding members of the Friends of Lake Wingra and a long-term watershed resident in the Greenbush Neighborhood. She has many years of experience as a WDNR employee and consultant to environmental and community groups through her business, Partners in Place, LLC and brings resource management, citizen science, and collaboration skills to the Friends. Currently, she is working on a book, “Wheels of Time and Place, Connecting Nature and Spirit in Everyday Life.” She spends much of her free time as a gardener, natural historian, and creative writer, and enjoys being the parent of a young adult.

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Anna Healy joined the Board in summer, 2007.

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Eric Jacobsen has been a board member since 2007. Eric has worked in the landscape field in Door County, the Fox River Valley, the Milwaukee Area, and in the Madison Area as an ecological designer and project manager with Formecology. Eric earned his B.S. in Landscape Architecture in May 2005. In his spare Eric enjoys reading, canoeing, backpacking, cross-country skiing, and flyfishing.

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David S. Liebl

David S. Liebl is a Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering and UW-Extension. He works on a wide range of environmental issue around Wisconsin, including pollution prevention for storm water runoff. He currently chairs the UW-Arboretum Storm Water Management Committee, and is leading efforts to improve the water quality of runoff that drains to Lake Wingra through the Arboretum. Raised in the Wingra watershed, he learned to swim at Vilas Beach, in the days before beach closings.

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Jim Lorman

Dr. Jim Lorman, Chair, is a founding member of FOLW and a Professor of Biology at one of FOLW’s major partners, Edgewood College, where he teaches natural science, biology, and interdisciplinary environmental studies. Jim assists K-16 teachers and students in collaborating to study local environments, using watersheds and ecosystem health as integrating themes. He is also a member of the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission. Jim’s interest in aquatic ecology is life-long; as a kid he collected crayfish and tadpoles while “mucking around” in ponds and rivers and his doctoral research focused on the ecology of crayfish. Jim’s hobbies include swimming, canoeing, and whitewater kayaking. He is a long-term watershed resident in the Greenbush Neighborhood.

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Katy Wallace holds academic degrees in Geology and Environmental Studies including coursework in Aquatic Plant and Wetland Studies. Her graduate research focused on the impacts of Madison’s stormwater runoff and sedimentation on wetlands. She has worked as a professional in state government dealing with wetlands geology, mitigation, and the effects of climate change on bird populations. Katy also has experience as an environmental consultant in natural resource inventory and ecological restoration. She currently works in academia to address problems in wetland geomorphology, and will be beginning a PhD program in Limnology in fall 2005 at UW-Madison.

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Advisors to the Board

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