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COUNTY CHAPTER
Washington Interim Coordinator: Brad Crary, IATA staff
and Ozaukee
Counties
(608-798-4453 ext. 225, Brad@iceagetrail.org)
LAKESHORE CHAPTER
Coordinator: Cheryl Gorsuch (920-860-1061)
Fond du Lac,
Sheboygan, LakeshoreChapter@iceagetrail.org
Manitowoc,
Kewaunee,
and Door When the silence of winter changes to the sounds
Counties
of spring, the buzzing of the bees, a chorus of frogs,
and the songs of birds, it is a time to get out of the house and enjoy
events and hikes on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Join us, Saturday, April 18, 2020 from 10 a.m. to noon for the 10th
anniversary of Dash at the Dunes held at Woodland Dunes Nature
What the Crew accomplished in the Waterville Segment. Photo by John Center and Preserve in Two Rivers. Our chapter supports this event
Kolbe.
by clearing the trail for participants who run or walk 5K on the Ice
Age Trail Dunes Segment. We will also have a booth with brochures,
maps, and photos as well as friendly volunteers willing to share their
knowledge and love of the Trail.
Put Saturday, May 30, 2020, on your calendar. Our fi rst monthly
hike starts at Potawatomi State Park, in lovely Door County, the
eastern terminus of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. The 2.8-mile
hike includes the Niagara Escarpment and beautiful views of the
Sturgeon Bay.
Our National Trails
Day hike, June 6,
2020, will be at
Walla Hi County Park
on the newly created
Walla Hi Segment.
You will see the
Sawyers, Tom Gross (left) and Andy Whitney (right, are awed by the infamous “slab hill,”
debris on the Waterville Segment. Photo by Pat Witkowski. a trailbuilding marvel.
The hills and gullies
Centennial Park and Hartbrooke, opening up the sights and sounds along the segment
of the river. On another afternoon, potentially the last of several make for scenic
workdays on the Aldo Leopold Overlook off Maple Avenue in views from every
Hartland, volunteers cleared the way for re-seeding the site. Over angle. Hopefully,
two dozen woodpiles are ready for winter burning there, and twice spring fl owers will be
as many are ready from days of clearing in the Hartland Marsh loop. in bloom and birds
The Blazing Babes group, who led a Signage 101 class at IAT-U and frogs will be
in July, worked with participants from that class to help upgrade singing their tunes. Enjoy the beauty of the lakeshore with a hike in
Baraboo Hills/Heritage Chapter’s Sauk Point Segment between Potawatomi State Park, along the Sturgeon Bay
Parfrey’s Glen and Devil’s Lake State Park. Visit the Ice Age Trail Segment, and you too, might spot a monarch
website (iceagetrail. alight on a milkweed. Photo by Dawn Tessman.
Informative and entertaining speakers at monthly meetings included: org) and visit
Katlyn Pleur, who brought us up to speed on invasive species in the events calendar where the monthly hikes and events of the
Milwaukee County; Jayne Jenks from Waukesha County Parks, Lakeshore Chapter will be posted.
who demonstrated the nature of our watershed with an interactive
Environscape; and Melanie Radzicki McManus, author of Thousand- - Cheryl Gorsuch
Miler, who recounted stories about the Trail and others. Outreach
events and a variety of trail hikes continue to keep us active.
- Robert Root
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