Lake Wingra Shoreline Cleanup Day
Photo by Lisa Grueneberg Give back to the lake that gives you hours of recreation all summer! Hop on a Wingra Boats canoe or your own watercraft to pick up […]
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We’re Growing! Applications Open For New Board Members
With the ice gone from Lake Wingra and the Sandhill Cranes returning, we’re excited to see signs of spring in the watershed. We are looking for 5-7 new board members
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Lake Wingra Water Cleanup
Give back to the lake that gives you hours of recreation all summer! Hop on a Wingra Boats canoe or your own watercraft to pick up trash in the lake
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Lake Wingra Earth Day Cleanup
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Stay tuned for info on a new date, coming soon! Give back to the lake that gives you hours of recreation all summer! Hop on a
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Applications Open For New Board Members for 2024
With the ice gone from Lake Wingra, we’re excited to see signs of spring in the watershed. We are looking for 3-5 new board members to join our organization who
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January Board Meeting: Open To The Public!
Consider attending our board meeting on January 11 at 7 PM at the Sequoia Library. The complete agenda can be found below.
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Welcome Toni Tiemann!!
September, 2022 We are delighted to welcome Toni Tiemann to the Friends of Lake Wingra Board of Directors! Toni (she/her) joined the Board in August 2022. She moved to Madison
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Barre3 Raising Funds for Friends of Lake Wingra
Summer 2022 We would like to take a moment to send a special thank you to Missy Dunn at barre3 Madison and her amazing crew for the awesome classes she
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Friends of Lake Wingra WATER Grant
We are thrilled to have completed our one-year UW-Madison Arboretum WATER grant project this summer! In the WATER (Water Action to Encourage Responsibility) project, the UW-Madison Arboretum along with neighborhood,
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Musky Data Collection at Wingra Dam
May 11, 2022 Every other year, the DNR stocks and tags 100 Wisconsin muskellunge (muskies) in Lake Wingra. On May 4th, DNR staff were below the Wingra Dam, in Wingra
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The Springs of the Lake Wingra Watershed
May 2022 Springs are locations where up-welling groundwater discharges to the earth’s surface, the “Big Spring” (pictured below) on the shore of Lake Wingra in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum,
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Building a Rain Garden at Thoreau School
April 14, 2022 In October of 2012, Jack Nolan asked the Friends of Lake Wingra for help in selecting an Eagle Scout project. Jack wanted to do something to help
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