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News of theSoutheast Gateway Groupof the Sierra ClubOCT / NOV 2016VOLUME 35, No. 5
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From the Chairby Tom Rutkowski
WE Energies Power Plant on Hwy 32
CALENDAR OF EVENTSOCTOBER
Thursday, Oct 20: Program on Challenges to Our Great Lakes, by Dr. Michael Carvan, UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. 6:30 PM, Gateway/SC Johnson iMET Center, 2320 Renaissance Boulevard in Sturtevant. (page 3)
Saturday, Oct 22: SEGG/Weed Out! Racine, Join us for the Community Make-A-Difference Day at the Kids Cove Playground just south of North Beach, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM. Details at www.facebook.com/events/286543738390233/Invasive Species Workday, 9:00-Noon, Pringle Nature Center, 9800 160th Ave, Bristol. Bring work gloves.
Thursday, Oct 27: Deadline to Order Cranberries!! (page 6)
Sunday, Oct 29: SEGG/Weed Out! Racine, Colonial Park, 9:00 AM-Noon. Working to remove more honeysuckle and buckthorn from the flood plain. Use parking lot at the end of West High Street. Dress for the weather with long trousers and sturdy shoes. Bug repellant and drinking water advised.
TBA: Fall Work Day at the Lulu Lake Preserve in Walworth County. Check website for details or contact Allan Sommer: [email protected], tel. 262-716-6955 for more information.!(page 3)
NOVEMBERSaturday, Nov 5: Pringle 5K Prairie & Woods Train Run/Hike, 10:00 AM. Entry fee $15, T-shirt guaranteed before Oct. 14. www.pringlenc.org
Thursday, Nov 17: History of the WI Mounds, presentation by Josephine Greendeer Lee, Museum Director for the Ho-Chunk Nation, 6:30 PM, Gateway/SC Johnson iMET building (page 3).
Friday, Nov 18: ExCom Ballots Due!! (page 7)
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Thank you UW-Parkside Softball Team Membersfor helping to plant trees in Colonial Park!!
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Good Chemicals Bad Chemicals By John Berge
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SEGG, in partnership with Weed Out! Racine and the City of Racine Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services, has been working on restoration in Colonial Park since 2004, when John Berge headed up an immense effort planting native forbs along the Root River Bike Path with a grant from the Root-Pike
Watershed Initiative. Since that time we have coordinated community volunteers to remove buckthorn, honeysuckle, garlic mustard, dame's rocket, burdock and other pesky non-natives. We have also planted small trees, including oaks, maples and birch, in the floodplain in order to create a functional ecosystem that supports a diverse wildlife population.
In 2016 groups from The Prairie School, UW-Parkside, Wild Ones, Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps, Racine County Community Service Workers, the Spring Street Community Church, United Way Day of Caring, Johnson Financial Group, and Lutheran Church of the Resurrection Creation Care Team together contributed nearly 500 hours of volunteer service to the park. The views from the river path and the middle path are much more open now, thanks to their efforts.
A Wild Ones donation enabled Weed Out! Racine to purchase a Weed Dragon, a propane-fueled weed
torch to flame young garlic mustard. We used it with some success this spring, and will use it again on first-year plants in the fall. Members of Olympia Brown UU Church donated to the group through their Share-The-Plate program; this money funds operating expenses including tool repair and replacement.
Lesser Celandine was discovered in a wet area on the outer trail; this pretty little yellow flower reproduces rapidly not only with above-ground seeds and below-ground tubers, but also with bulbils that form in the stem axils. The bulbils d e t a c h r e a d i l y , a n d c a n b e transported some distance from the main plant. We will need to treat lesser celandine next spring.
If you walked in Colonial this summer, you probably noticed orange or blue
paint slashes on many trees. These marked trees are the ashes, damaged by the emerald ash borer, that will be removed by a professional company this winter when the ground is frozen. Up to 50% of the canopy in the floodplain will be gone, and the additional sunlight may well facilitate the growth of reed canary grass and garlic mustard. Our efforts next year will be focused on removing these invasives, and planting more native trees.
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Invasive Lesser Celandine
Thank You Johnson Financial Group Volunteers!!
Christina Russin, President of the Root River Chapter of Wild Ones, and Melissa Warner with the new Weed Torch.
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THE SIERRA CLUB'S SOUTHEAST GATEWAY GROUP OF WISCONSIN'S JOHN MUIR CHAPTERE X E C U T I V E C O M M I T T E E B A L L O T
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Joe Dubaniewicz Betsy Georg Laura Feider Tom Rutkowski
Joe DubaniewiczJoining the SEGG ExCom will be an honor for me. I moved to Kenosha in the past year and I just knew I would find a way to continue with the Sierra Club. For the past few years, I worked on the Beyond Coal campaign in the Chicago Chapter of the Sierra Club with a bunch of great people. We were very successful in Chicago and other down-state communities, but we are still working to responsibly shut down the very old Waukegan coal-fired power plant through the Clean Power Lake County campaign. Any day now. Maybe a little longer. Keep the Faith!
Betsy GeorgWhen I first decided that I wanted to run for County Board and started attending meetings as an observer, I realized that the Board dealt with many environmental issues and that my knowledge of those issues was inadequate. I joined the Sierra Club and, when elected to the County Board, served on the Planning and Development Committee for several years. Sierra Club members were always willing to answer my questions about environmental issues that came before the Board. More recently, I have served on the Kenosha Racine Land Trust board and have been the SEGG Political Chair. Laura Feider I am back from California, where I served on an anti-fracking committee. Before moving to California I had been highly involved with SEGG as ExCom Secretary, Conservation Chair and also worked with the water monitoring project before I moved. I am a first grade teacher at a private school in Racine and am glad to be back.
Tom RutkowskiI’ve been fortunate to have camped and hiked in some of the world’s beautiful places; I appreciate the mission of the Sierra Club to help others “explore and enjoy” these places as well. For several years I’ve worked to advance renewable energy and call for action to address climate change. I’m thankful for all the work the Sierra Club has done with these issues and all of its other efforts to “protect” the natural world.
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SEGG Outing RecapOn July 31, one dozen canoers and kayakers launched their boats on the Root River, just upstream of the Horlick Dam.
The group was guided by the Warners who have done this trip multiple times. The rule, stated by the leader, was that if a boat tips: "Stand Up!"
Pleasures of the trip included sightings of great b lue herons, a good many wildflowers in bloom, the joy of a cooling breeze, and of course, the company. After the trip the group adjourned to Infusino's.
Join us on our next "Fall Work Day" outing-details on page 3.
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