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Contact Us
Send us your thoughts, stories, photos at info.wildwarner@gmail.com. Check out our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/WildWarner/ Call Paul Noeldner at 608-698-0104 to get information about meetings, for general inquiries, or to …
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The eagle has landed.
A pair of bald eagles is building a nest on the marsh island.
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Wild Warner Urban Tree Alliance
In the spring of 2015, Urban Tree Alliance and Wild Warner got together and planted 29 trees in Warner Park. We did it mainly in response to emerald ash borer …
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Warner’s sandhill cranes show off two chicks
Greg Weller, one of Wild Warner’s resident photographers, got these terrific closeups of the resident Sandhill Crane family. He writes: “They are very cute. Have never seen a sand hill …
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Wild Warner’s vision for Warner Park 4/29/15
The Madison Parks Department is gathering “visions” for the future of Warner Park. Here is Wild Warner’s vision: 1. Nature recreation – Emphasizing the value of nature education and recreation, and …
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Wild Warner, volunteers, plant 30 trees to replace cut ash trees
Members of Wild Warner, Boy Scouts, students from Madison College and workers from the Urban Tree Alliance planted 30 trees in Warner Park and Warner Beach in April 18 to …
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Warner Park’s natural heritage: Jeff Galligan
Jeff Galligan of Middleton sent us a great set of photos, and this note: I raised my two children De Andre and Dominique within a short distance from Warner Park. …
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Wild Warner Minutes 3-03-2015
Attendees: Kathlean Wolf Karen Hickel Blair Panhorst Paul Noeldner Jonathan Santana Dolores Kester Tim Nelson Mike Rewey Jack Hurst Trish Okane Marlene Hardick Jim Carrier Urban Tree Alliance: Patricia Chakravorty—canceled, …
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Bird and Nature Walk – Sunday 2/15 1:30-3 p.m. at Warner Park Shelter.
Free, family-friendly, nature, recreation, and education! To celebrate Madison being formally recognized as a Bird City, Madison Parks, in collaboration with other organizations, will offer free monthly bird and nature …
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Wild Warner Minutes 02-03-2015
Present: Marie Jacobsen, Chair Jack Hurst Marian Celesnik, Treasurer Patricia Chakravorty Mike Rewey Blair Panhorst, Membership Coordinator Marlene Hardick Marcia Finger Joan Ryan Paul Noeldner (late), Education Kathlean Wolf (late), …
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About Wild Warner
ABOUT WILD WARNER In the autumn of 2009, a group of citizens discovered that a pending neighborhood plan for North Madison, Wisconsin included several development plans for Warner Park. Among …
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Wild Warner Minutes 12-03-2014
In attendance: Jonathan Santana, Webmaster Marian Celesnik, Treasurer Marie Jacobsen, Chair Tim Nelson, PR and Info Kathlean Wolf, Secretary Trish Okane, Advisor Mike Rewey, Advisor, Engineering Joan, new to meeting …
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Predator and Prey
The closing ice on Lake Mendota along Warner Beach is proving great viewing of birds. Bonnie Tiedt shot these photos Sunday. Our thanks to her.
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Tundra Swans pass through – hundreds of them.
Tundra Swans stopped along Warner Beach on their way south over the Thanksgiving weekend. The white swans are adults, the “dusky” colored birds are juveniles. The swans breed in high …
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Warner welcomes bird 136
This wonderful video of the visiting pelicans was filmed by Greg Weller, a contributing photographer to Wild Warner. BIRD 136 – White Pelicans have been spotted in the Warner wetland …
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Wild Warner minutes 11-11-2014
Present: Jim Carrier, Marian Celesnik, Marie Jacobson, Marcia Finger, Dolores Kester, Karen Hickel, Jack Hurst, Audrey Kalzor, Tim Nelson, Trish O’Kane, Blair Panhorst, Paul Noeldner, Mike and Pam Rewey, Jonathan …
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Standing on hallowed ground
Last night, Aug. 5, 2014, Wild Warner met on the newly restored Warner Island Prairie to paint a Plein Aire environmental vision for the Wild Side of Warner Park. The …
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A Lotus blooms in Warner’s wetland
Conservation photographer Arlene Koziol captured the fleeting bloom of the American Lotus in Warner’s wetland on July 22, 2014. In a nature walk with Wild Warner’s education coordinator, Paul …
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New member meets baby bluebirds
by Jonathan Santanna, Madison College student and aspiring zoologist It started like every other Thursday morning, however there were four baby blue birds waiting for me this time. The last …
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Warner’s new Sandhill Crane colt discovers the restored prairie island
The 2014 Warner Park Sandhill Crane colt is finally fledged from the nest and starting to get out and about, and learning to forage with its parents on the restored …
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Warner’s bluebird trail is a success
Warner’s Bluebird Trail, maintained by Paul Noeldner, Tim Nelson, Jonathan Santanna and Trish O’Kane, yielded successful hatches this year. The boxes also attract Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, House Wrens and Black-capped …
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Brentwood – Wild Warner – Parks team up to clean up
It was a beautiful day to pick up trash in Warner Park Saturday. Twenty volunteers, many from the Brentwood Neighborhood Association, adjacent to the park, fanned out with plastic bags …
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The Bluebirds are back
By Paul Noeldner The Sherman Nature Explorers helped their UW Student Mentors check on the Wild Warner Bluebird Trail boxes on Wednesday March 26. Their sharp eyes spotted beautiful Bluebird …
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Winter Bird and Nature Walk at Warner Park
By Paul Noelner About 16 people joined in the February Bird and Nature Walk at Warner Park held every 3rd Sunday 1:30-3 pm. Walks are also held at Cherokee Marsh …
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A Valentine for our volunteer-in-chief
The wild side of Warner Park was shaken from its winter slumber this week, as the Nature Explorer Club returned for its winter/spring session. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, thirty-seven kids …
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A winter’s walk
What’s to see in Warner Park in winter? Lots. Ice and shadows. The sculpture of the wild is much more evident now. At night, the moon and stars stand out …
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Fireworks to Frogs: Warner Park’s fireworks island.
Tim Nelson, chair of Wild Warner, read the following letter to the Madison Board of Park Commissioners on Nov. 13, 2013: On behalf of Wild Warner I want to thank …
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New life for Warner Park’s wetland island
By Jim Carrier Jack Hurst views the environment from the end of a fishing pole. He feels the tug of a biting pike, the nibbling of bluegills — and the …
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Minutes – October 2013
Wild Warner Committee Meeting October 2013 Wildlife Sightings: Cormorant, geese, rose breasted grosbeak, osprey, juvenile fox, barn owl, puff balls, hummingbird, Wild Warner novices, pileated woodpecker, bluebirds, great egret, cedar …
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Eagle pair spotted in park – Rob Petershack
Rob Petershack, an attorney and amateur photographer, visits Warner Park periodically in search of good photos. On September 30, he caught this blue heron in the wetland. Herons, as he …
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The wetland border is alive!
When photographer Patrick Noyes walked along the edge of Warner Park’s lagoons with his Samsung Note 2 phone, his eye caught beauty and bugs galore. Seen as “weeds” by some, …
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DNR says Rhythm & Booms violated Clean Water Act
Controversial Rhythm and Booms fireworks show violated wetlands law, state DNR says By Pat Schneider Capitol Times July 17, 2013 As speculation swirled this week that the city of Madison …
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Let’s make Warner Park a wetland education center
By Jim Carrier, cofounder of Wild Warner The following was presented to the Madison Board of Parks Commissioners on July 10. It represents a new vision for Warner Park’s wetland. …
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A bluebird funeral, and hope for more
By Paul Noeldner Four nestlings that had sadly succumbed to black flies were buried next door under a newly planted Prairie Purple Cone Flower. The roof has a recently installed …
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July 4, 2013 – the morning after Rhythm & Booms
On July 4, Wild Warner cofounder Jim Carrier talked about the science and law of Rhythm & Boom on WORT-FM. Reporter Julia Chechvala interviewed Jim on The Perpetual Notion Machine. …
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Warner’s wetland: facing challenges with high potential for rehabilitation
On the eve of Rhythm & Booms, a Wisconsin wetland expert toured Warner Park’s wetland, and declared it beautiful, vital and worth the effort to rehabilitate it. Wild Warner opposes …
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Warner Park is turtle heaven
This spring we’ve seen several types of turtles in Warner Park, including an endangered Blanding’s turtle and lots of painted turtles. Watch for them sunning on logs in the wetland: …
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Bird Walk June 1 with Trish O’Kane
Wild Warner/Audubon Bird Walk this Saturday, June 1: Bring binoculars and good shoes. We’ll start at 8 a.m. in front of the Warner Park Community Center and be out until …
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New Bat Houses in Warner – Bat Fest June 1
People can see rare bats from around the world, including one with a 6-foot wing span, listen to top bat researchers and enjoy unique raffle prizes, hands-on activities and displays …
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School Spotlight: Sherman Middle School Nature Club explores Warner Park
PAMELA COTANT | For the State Journal Every Wednesday after school in the spring and fall, Sherman Middle School students make the trek on foot to nearby Warner Park — …
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From one spot – spring in Warner Park by Dr. Wang Dajun
Stand still, watch and listen as Warner Park comes alive in the spring. With a decent camera you may be able to get shots like these taken May 1, 2013 …
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Warner’s big bur oak is officially a “landmark” in Madison, WI
April 22 – In honor of Arbor Week, the Madison Parks Habitat Stewardship Committee is pleased to announce the First Annual (2012). Heritage Tree Award Winners. The Heritage Tree Program …
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Warner Park’s bird list hits 140 species
Bird Species List Warner Park 2015 One of Madison’s birding hotspots This list of 140 species is the result of more than 500-hour participatory research project led by Ph.D. …
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Committee on the Environment? Read the R&B transcript:
March 18, 2013 Madison, Wisconsin Full Verbatim Transcription of Committee on Environment (COE) Meeting, Item #1, Rhythm & Booms. Unedited. Meeting began around 4:30pm. Public comments on Agenda Item #1 …
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Save the wood bridges – improve Warner Park
UPDATE: Construction on a new bike path through Warner Park will destroy this beautiful old tree, to make room for a new, wider, steel bridge. This bridge is used daily …
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Rhythm & Booms media reports
The studies showing chemical pollution of Warner Park’s wetland received news coverage. Here’s Channel 15’s report: WMTV – NBC15 Madison, Wisconsin:
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Nature Explorers brave the ice to check out Wood Duck and Kestral nests
By Paul Noeldner This is the Weekly Wild Warner Nature Explorers Report from Madison, Wisconsin. About 35 Sherman Middle School students participate in this ongoing after-school outdoor education program advised …
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Rhythm & Booms: Confirmed polluter of Warner’s wetland
Test results from Rhythm & Booms are in, and the links below will take you to them. The Committee on the Environment released these drafts this week, but won’t discuss …
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Nature Explorers: Over 230 children in three years
INTO THE WILD! Thirty-nine rambunctious students from Sherman Middle School, teamed with 18 mentors from UW-Madison, began the sixth semester of Nature Explorers on Feb. 6, 2013. In three years …
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Rhythm & Booms – a plane full of pollution from China
The following letter to the editor was published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Jan. 31: By Jim Carrier Warner Park has been considered an “ideal” fireworks venue because of …
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It’s time to stop Rhythm & Booms pollution in Warner Park
By Tim Nelson, chair of Wild Warner Wild Warner, a nonprofit environmental group, today asked the city of Madison to discontinue the Rhythm & Booms fireworks event, held on the …
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A wild storm doesn’t stop Wild Warner
The snow was still blowing when we took a walk into Warner Park But people were out, skiing, walking and sledding. The heavy snow turned the landscape into white sculpture. …
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Geese were rounded up Warner Park in 2012
We have finally received confirmation that geese were rounded up in Warner Park (and other Madison parks) earlier this year. Trish O’Kane received this information from Chip Lovell of USDA …
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Warner Beach – a great place to swim and watch the rhythms of nature
Warner Beach and the boat ramp are a beautiful part of Warner Park. Connected hydrologically by a new, larger culvert under Woodward Drive, the beach area is heavily used by …
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Wild Warner elects new leadership
Tim Nelson was unanimously elected chair of Wild Warner on Tuesday night. Our current treasurer, park watchdog and a tireless and cheerful volunteer, Tim will lead our growing nonprofit through …
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Critters you might see in the Park
Two of our members have sent in photos of animals spotted in the park. If you’ve captured the beauty of life in Warner Park, please forward your photo to: …
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Keep Mallards fireworks inside the ballpark
This summer, Wild Warner discovered that the Madison Mallards organization was blowing up fireworks outside its ballpark, into the woods and wetlands. The group voted at its September 4 meeting …
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Wild Warner welcomes bicycle riders
Thousands of bike riders came to Madison’s North Side on Aug. 12, as part of Ride the Drive, and Wild Warner was there with music, a rest stop on our …
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Before and After – Madison tests Warner’s water for R&B contaminants
Warner Park’s wetland was sampled for fireworks metals and perchlorate before and after the 2012 Rhythm and Booms extravaganza. Rick Wenta, an environmental field technician with the Madison/Dane County health …
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The calm before the (R&B) storm
By Sandy Rezvani On the eve of the ruin and doom program … Prelude….. I have a doggie companion and she has to go outside …. So – we went …
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The Rhythm and Booms chemical study is underway
A UW biologist and Madison hydrogeologist collected several dozen samples of soil and plants June 22, as part of the city-funded study of chemical fallout from the Rhythm & Booms …
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Volunteers take to the water to clean up trash
Eleven Wild Warner volunteers braved wind and rain to help clean up the Warner Park Lagoon June 16. The cleanup was coordinated by Tim Nelson, Wild Warner’s treasurer, in cooperation …
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Enjoy Warner’s wild side before Rhythm and Booms
If you have guests for Rhythm & Booms, wouldn’t it be a wonderful to take them on a hike through Warner Park, before you settle down on a blanket for …
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Warner Park’s “silent sports” — enjoying the wild side
Warner Park’s new meadows are ablaze with plants, bugs, butterflies and birds. If you haven’t taken a walk through them, you are missing a wonderful part of the park, perfect …
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Migratory Bird Walk – Saturday June 2
Warner Park is full of migrating birds. Here’s your chance to see and hear them, and learn from Warner’s resident bird expert. Join Wild Warner and Madison Audubon on a …
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Rhythm & Booms – stop polluting Warner Parks’s wetland
The following letter was sent to Terry Kelly, founder of Rhythm & Booms: Dear Mr. Kelly: Thank you for asking for Wild Warner’s counsel on cleaning up Rhythm & Booms’ …
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Rubbish Runners – new group cleaning up parks
Hello, I am a northside resident and want to let you know about the group I started, Rubbish Runners, to help clean up local parks and public areas. I think …
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Brentwood walk against violence 5/16 7 p.m.
Warner Park’s larger ecosystem has been shaken by yet another shooting, this time in Brentwood. The police have acted swiftly, and the neighborhood hopes to channel fear into closer personal, …
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City approves Rhythm and Booms chemical study
Madison’s City Council gave final approval on Feb. 28 for a $25,000 appropriation to test the Warner Park wetland for contaminates before and after this year’s Rhythm and Booms. The …
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Greg Weller in grey and white
February’s snow lured Greg Weller into Warner Park with his camera. He joins Wild Warner’s list of official photographers. Click on any photo for a slide show.
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Winter/Spring Walk
We heard a robin and a red-winged blackbird in Warner Park yesterday. Today damp snow turned Warner Park into a wonderland. Click on a picture to start a slide show.
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Fallout from Rhythm and Booms: WISC-TV
Here is the pertinent language in the 2012 Rhythm and Booms contract: “3d. MFF shall be responsible for the cleanup and disposal of all debris from the Event in Warner …
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February 2012 agenda
Interim Chair for three months March – May Marlene recommends names from hat and rotate. Two cochairs/month who will develop agenda, chair monthly meeting, track meetings/issues of Madison Park Commission, …
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Study of Warner’s wetland is vital to the park’s future
The Madison Common Council has approved a $25,000 appropriation to study the effects of Rhythm and Booms on Warner Park. This year, 2012, will be the fireworks’ 20th year in …
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Plants have stories to tell
The Friends of Cherokee Marsh present: Prairie Lore and Plant Stories with Dane County Parks Naturalist Wayne Pauly In a special presentation of “Prairie Lore and Plant Stories,” Dane County …
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A January jaunt
Mild weather brings out the best in us. On January 8, your correspondent visited Governor’s Island, where eagles were hunting coots, geese were flocking in the remaining open water of …
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Minutes December 2011 meeting
Minutes of Wild Warner meeting, Dec. 5, 2011 Members in attendance: Kathie, Jack, Marlene, Trish, Jim, Tim, Anita, Brooke. Wildlife sightings: 2 red fox, 2 great horned owls, several hooded …
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HOOOOO HOOOO Owl Walk Jan. 21 5:30 p.m.
Nature Walk–Searching for Owls in Warner Park! Saturday, January 21, 5:30 pm Meet in front of Warner Park Center. Emily Steinwehe and Marlene Hardick will lead a free night walk …
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What’s in YOUR park?
by Marlene Hardick As we walk through Warner Park, we see things. Now there is an opportunity to share what we see. In the lobby of Warner Park Community Recreation …
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In Excelsis Bur Oak
On Dec. 22, the Wild Warner Solstice Singers took to their neighborhood to sing Christmas carols to apartment dwellers on Monterey Drive. People threw open their windows and gazed in …
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Ice, Fog, Swans
By Marlene Hardick A fellow member of Wild Warner told me that there is an intermingled flock of Canadian Geese and Swans on Lake Mendota. I assume that these are …
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Meadows = Butterflies
By Marlene Hardick, Wild Warner publicity chair It is a 2012 project of Wild Warner to protect and improve the meadows in Warner Park. Madison Parks has agreed not to …
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Wild Warner meeting dates for 2012
Wild Warner meets on the first Tuesday of the month, at the Warner Park center. Here are the dates for 2012: Jan. 3 Feb. 7 March 6 April 3 May …
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Minutes for November 1, 2011 meeting
Wild Warner Meeting November 2011 Attending: Kathie, Dolores, Jack, Trish, Jim, Marlene, Lori, Michael, Boaz, Marie Sightings: Red Tailed hawk, buck, crow Trish announced that The Nelson Institute wants to …
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A North Star
Wild Warner received a North Star from the Northside Planning Council in November 2011. The honor goes to the park, where these photos were taken one frosty morning. To enlarge …
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A North Star to Wild Warner!!
Wild Warner was honored to receive a North Star award from our neighbors and the Northside Planning Council on Nov 11, 2011. Paul Rusk, Dane County Supervisor, presented the award. …
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Join/Donate
Support Wild Warner through membership or donations Your membership in Wild Warner helps us to continue our mission of advocacy for the wild side of Warner Park. Additional donations of …
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Another meadow is born in Warner Park
The Madison Parks Department has stopped mowing in the meadow adjacent to the Warner Park dog park, below sled hill. At the request of Wild Warner, the department will allow …
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Wild Warner – The First Year
Wild Warner turned one year old on Aug. 4, 2011 Thanks to you, we have made an impact — in the park and in people’s attitudes toward the park. Since …
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Wild Warner Leadership and Membership
Wild Warner Leadership Wild Warner elected its first official council, under its bylaws, in September 2011. The 2015 officers are: Marie Jacobson – President Paul Noeldner – Education Coordinator Marian …
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October 2011 Minutes
Wild Warner Committee Meeting October 4, 2011 Attending: Jack, Kathie, Delores, Jim, Tim, Trish, Marie, Brooke Sightings: wooly bears, toads, hawks Treasurer: $1556.78 We still need to pay students and …
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Pair of foxes spotted in Warner’s meadow
Out for a dog walk Saturday at dusk, we stopped in our tracks at the sight of TWO red foxes. One scampered away, but this one watched us long enough …
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A walk, a poem, and lovely trees
Dr. Bruce Allison led a tree walk through Warner Park on Sept. 25, describing and diagnosing its great trees. First stop was an ash, healthy so far, but threatened by …
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