2021

2021

Dan organized and led panel for Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s annual Wetland Science Conference on Starting or growing an ecological restoration business.

Talks: Nancy: Jens Jensen Landscape Design Principles and The Clearing, to the Landscape Design School of the National Garden Clubs. Nancy: Visible and Invisible Mending - an intersection of art and ecology, for Wisconsin Wetlands Association’s Wetland Coffee Break virtual series. Dan and Nancy: Restoration at Crossroads: Re-Meandering and More, at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay, WI. (In 2021 we completed the Ecological Restoration Plan for Crossroads at Big Creek and are assisting Crossroads with its implementation.) Nancy and Dan: Re-Meandering at Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, blending art+ecology. And, we gave a talk on Door County forest and meadow restoration at at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay, hosted by Crossroads and Wild Ones - Door County.

We co-led a workshop, with poet Kimberly Blaeser, Translating Nature: Words and Images of Place, sponsored by Write On, Door County and Gathering Ground, including an afternoon of monotype printmaking using natural materials.

Hikes and public projects: We led wetland hikes for Watershed Day at Crossroads at Big Creek. We helped with a native tree planting and invasive species management day with Friends of Pebble Beach in Sister Bay. We organized a native plug planting project at Crossroads at Big Creek’s The Cove Preserve in collaboration with Cream City Conservation.

Dan and Nancy each have a few monotypes in the Wildlife Biennial XX exhibition at Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay. And Nancy’s original monotypes are for sale in the museum shop.