2010 interns

One of the big events at Pleasant Valley Conservancy in late May each year is the arrival of a new crop of interns. This program, that Kathie and I help manage for Madison Audubon Society, has been a great success, and we look forward to another fine summer!

Pleasant Valley Conservancy is part of the so-called "Prairie Partners" group, which involves five separate entities. The interns work one day each week at each site, thus getting to see a wide variety of habitats as well as different ways of carrying out ecological restoration work. The interns are at PVC each Tuesday. (The other sites are the Mounds View Grassland of the Prairie Enthusiasts, Pheasant Branch Conservancy, UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve, and Madison Audubon's Goose Pond Sanctuary.)

This program is open to students from all of Wisconsin, and although we always have some UW-Madison students, we generally get students from other campuses as well. This year we have three students from UW-Stevens Point.