Newsletter Archive  The Cherokee Marsh News

• Help Restore Natural Areas at a Volunteer Work Day

• March 1 Bird & Nature Adventure: Let It Be an Oak

• Save the Date: April 26 Bird & Nature Festival

• March 6 Night Creature Search at Token Creek County Park

• April 5 Bird & Nature Adventure: Historical Wetland Relationships

• March 8 Indigenous Plant Traditions Workshop

• Fostering Healthy Oak Woodlands

• Waterfowl Migration Is Underway

• Earth Week Activities

• FOCM Financial Plans for 2026

• Marsh Meditation: The Night Sky

• How We Are Helping Wisconsin’s Endangered Resources

• Water Health Is Focus of 2026 FOCM Annual Meeting

• Renew Your Membership

• Donate for Memorial Bench

• Volunteer Work Days

• Winter Plant ID Walk

• Winter Fun at the Marsh

• Christmas Bird Count

• New Year Walk

• Board Candidates

• Retiring from the Board

• Flood Mitigation Planning

• Snowshoe Walks

• A Few 2025 Highlights

• Marsh Meditation: Lights in the Darkness

• Muskrats in the Marsh

• Bring on summer!

• June golf tourney affects access to North  Unit of Cherokee Marsh Conservation Park June 2–8

• Eagle nest fails

• Eagle Scout projects

• Snake fungal disease found in Cherokee Marsh Conservation Park

• Marsh meditations

• Events and volunteering

• Learn about native mussels at annual member meeting 

• It's time to renew your membership

• Trail closed due to Sewerage District project

• Warner Park and Cherokee Marsh watershed study update presented

• Enjoy winter at Cherokee Marsh

• What we did in 2024

• Meet the director candidates

• Respect the mounds; don't use closed trail segments

• Events and volunteering

• Students participate in days of service

• Aquatic Invasive Species Snapshot Day returns

• Events and volunteering

• Annual member meeting

• It's time to renew your membership

• What we did in 2023

• Acorns abundant this year

• New crew member and volunteer coordinator added

• Events and volunteering

• Volunteer Opportunities: Brush Cutting & Burning

• February 1 Bird & Nature Adventure: Pushups, Dreys, & Cavities

• AI Data Center Canceled near Yahara headwaters

• Report on the Friends Annual Meeting

• March 1 Bird & Nature Adventure: Let It Be an Oak

• Save the Date: April 26 Bird & Nature Festival

• Marsh Meditation: Muskrat Love

• Volunteering & Events at Madison & Dane County Parks

• Thanks for Your Donations!

Autumn Notes

A Five-Year Management Plan for the Cherokee Marsh North Unit

Donations for a memorial bench for Russ Hefty

How we spend your donations

Can we have nice things?

Marsh meditations

Events and volunteering

• Springing into activities

• A busy spring (and fall) for burns

• Pelicans visit Cherokee Marsh

• So long, "Social Snag!"

• Tax time

• Help sew bags for seed collecting

• Nature essays

• News from our partners

• June golf tourney to briefly affect car access to the Cherokee Marsh North Unit

• Events and volunteering

• Learn to be a stream monitor  

• Woodcock & warbler walks 

• Our funding supports restoration

• Volunteers needed to collect prairie seeds

• Students battle invasive plants

• New nature blog on website

• Leaf-free streets make clean waters

• Bird houses for chickadees and house wrens available

• Another successful Snapshot Day

• Website now accepting memberships and donations

• Events and volunteering

• Marsh Partnership will support restoration

• Join or donate to the 2024 Pewees Great Wisconsin Birdathon team

• Register for Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin field trips

• Provide your input for the Wisconsin Conservation Congress spring hearings

• Events and volunteering

• Volunteer opportunities: brush cutting & burning

• January 4 Bird & Nature Adventure: winter “I Spy” walk

• Friends board opposes proposed AI data center near Yahara headwaters

• Friends annual member meeting: Saturday, January 24

• Updated: board of director candidates for 2026-27

• Candlelight snowshoe walk at Warner Park

• Bird & Nature Adventure: pushups, dreys, & cavities 

• $2500 grant from the Steve Stricker/American Family Insurance Foundation for interpretive signage

• Five-year management plan for South Unit

• Marsh meditation: It’s Cold!

• Thanks for renewing your membership

• Summer Notes

• Restroom woes

• New prairie in progress

• Remembering Russ Hefty

• Aquatic plants abundant this summer in the Upper Yahara River

• Eagle Scout project updates

• Multi-year phragmites project underway

• Marsh meditations

• Events and volunteering

• Beginning Birders

• Annual membership meeting recaps past year, looks ahead to 2025

• Jan Axelson retires from Friends board

• Friends board of directors candidates, officers elected in January

• Current conservation projects underway by Madison Parks

• Have you renewed your membership?

• Help sew bags for seed collecting

• Nature essays

• Events and volunteering

• The goats are back!

• New website launched

• Recent events at the marsh

• Aquatic Invasive Species Snapshot Day returns

• Events and volunteering

• Annual meeting held, directors elected

• Changes in the works for Friends' funding of restoration activities

• State Natural Area crew reports on use of grant funding

• Pollution observed in Bonner Pond 

• Have you renewed your membership?

• Treasurer's report

• Events and volunteering