We've completed the prairie planting at the Odana entrance to the SW Bike Path. Stop by and contemplate how beautiful that area will be next summer. All 320 plants plus about 60 donations from other prairies are ready to establish themselves in their new home. Some of them are darn glad they finally made it into the earth.

I want to thank those who worked with me to accomplish this. It was especially gratifying to have people helping from all over the city:

• Jana Stewart from Westmorland and Lyn Frueh from Piping Rock Rd. who organized and made the posters
• Rose Ann Scott from the Atwood (Isthmus) bike path prairie who planted and watered
• Jerry Gunderson from Middleton and the Atwood (Isthmus) prairie who helped choose plants, gave advice,and designed the Odana space plus he is contributing plants, some of them rare ones
• Ed Daley from Dudgeon-Monroe who raked and hauled all the sand and helped pull wild grapes out of the trees to gain more sunlight
• Devon Lee Tedesco, Nancy Leff, and Samara Leff from Westmorland who planted and planted and planted
• Cami Peterson from Dudgeon-Monroe who planted and planted and does the DMNA parks also
• Lisa, Seth, and Simon Weaver and John Clark from Westmorland who planted and planted and watered
• Ruth Robarts from Dudgeon-Monroe who took charge of the street side and planted and watered and planted
• Tom Kraustkof from Midvale Heights who dug right in and took charge of the path side of the prairie
• Deb Hall from Nakoma who watered and planted and hauled water and planted and who will have the best view of the prairie from across Odana
• Dianne Hanson from Greentree (White Oaks) who was totally organized and planted the baby plants, the grasses, and the butterfly weed on this the last day of planting.

Thanks to you all. Now we hope for rain so we don't have to water. If you are riding by and have extra water in your water bottle, give the plants a drink.

The next phase of the project is to brush our the buckthorn, honeysuckle, and wild grape that shade the prairie area. Also, we will need to watch the plants to see if they need water. Hope for rain.

Interested in volunteering? Contact Friends of the SW Path Sue Reindollar (233-9383 or ssreindo@facstaff.wisc.edu) or Laura Brown (274-9367 or ljbrown@chorus.net) to be added to the list of volunteers.

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Last Modified: 03-Feb-08 05:53 PM

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