17 years ago my wife and
I purchased an old warn out farm in western Green County mainly as a
place for me to go hunting and fishing
but it has turned into much more. Since I retired 7 years ago Youth
Conservation Education has taken
center stage at Savanna Springs. Through Boy & Girl Scouting
Camporees, 4H Activities, Summer School Fishing Classes, School
Field Trips, Outdoor Seminars, Youth Hunts,
the Argyle Land Ethic Academy and other
events and activities over 1000 youth have had a chance to
experience nature first hand by catching a fish or hiking our
woodland, savanna, wetland and prairie trails.
For years I have been involved with Sugar
River Valley chapter of Pheasants
Forever as well as Argyle Rod and Gun
Club, and South Central Wisconsin
Archers. In particular we have been working with
the Leopold Education Project.
In 2005 I was able to represent the LEP and PF by
joining a group from the International Crane Foundation on a
trip to eastern Russia's Muraviovka Park
to teach Russian Kids about
"Leopold Land Ethics".
I represent Pheasants Forever and other Conservation and Environmental Groups of
the state on the Wisconsin
Environmental Education Board and am the new Treasurer of the
Wisconsin Environmental Education Foundation. I am also
associated with the Board of the Argyle Land
Ethic Academy a Conservation Charter School and I spend a great
deal of time with these students doing restoration ecology
A large spring, the site of a
trading post between the French and the Indians in the 1740's, is
now the home of Savanna
Springs Trout Farm where hundreds of lunker Brown, Rainbow, and
Brook Trout are now found. Numerous endangered
and treatened or rare species have been found to be native or
introduced to Savanna Springs including Three
Birds Orchid, Giant Yellow
Hysop, Glade Mallow, Wild
Quinine, Marbleseed,
Hill's Thistle, Tuberous Indian
Plantain, Green's Milkweed,
Showy Orchid, Prairie Turnip,
Wild Petunia, Rough White
Lettuce, Butternut, Prairie Phlox,
Pale Pink Coneflower,
Cream Gentians and Red Tailed Prairie Leafhopper. We think
we have the State Record Red Oak and Silver Poplar as well as
several of the largest Bur Oaks in Wisconsin.
We plan on protecting our little "blank spot on the map"
and passing it on to our kids and future generations.
Maps
Events
Links
 
Call Savanna
Springs
at (608) 325-4606, Cell # 558-2075
E-Mail; savanasp@tds.net | 
