Enter Orchis:
News From Faville Grove Sanctuary
Enter Orchis brings you regular stories about natural happenings at the sanctuary, announcements of field trips, educational events, and opportunities to volunteer in the good work of ecological restoration. Past issues are archived below. To receive future issues via email, contact Matt Weber at faville@madisonaudubon.org. We welcome pictures, articles, and other contributions, as well as comments and address updates.
The name of the newsletter, Enter Orchis, is intended as an optimistic reprise of a heartbreaking episode in the history of Faville Grove. If you have never read Exit Orchis, Aldo Leopold’s famous essay written in 1940 as cows were about to be turned out to pasture in the Faville Grove prairie, click here. While orchids are among the most difficult of prairie plants to reestablish, working together, we hope to do just that. We only wish that Leopold and his contemporaries could be here today to see the new direction that things are heading at Faville Grove!
Stop out for a visit soon!
Faville Grove Sanctuary news from MAS's CAWS Newsletter:
March/April 2013 -
"Oak Savannas" and "Prairie Polemic"
February 2013 -
"Kestrel Project Comes to Faville Grove"
January 2013 -
"Into the New Year" and "2013 Summer Internships"
December 2012 -
"A Changing Landscape" and "People Power"
November 2012 -
"Faville Marsh Up Close"
October 2012 -
"In Times of Stress, Native Habitat is Key" and "Prairie Gold"
September 2012 -
"An Office With a View: Reflections from a Summer Intern"
June 2012 -
"Notes from Faville Grove" and "Faville Grove Welcomes Back Matt Weber"
Enter Orchis:
July 2010 -
Calendar and Fall Potluck, The Land Ethic and Land Protection, Melilotus Madness
April 2010 -
May Day!, First Quarter Report, Future of Oak Ecosystems, Deciding What to Restore
January 2010 -
Progress in the Ledge, Why a Hunrey Planet Needs More Prairie, Internship Announcement, Sunrise Fieldtrip
November 2009 -
Year in Review, 2009 Restoration, New Land Acquisition, GHA Approved, Eagle Scout Kiosk
September 2009 -
Fall Schedule, Grant Renewed, Summer in the Sanctuary, Flood Recovery, New Signs and Map
May 2009 -
New Look, FGS Loses a Friend, Living by the Land, State Wildlife Grant, Burn Season
Mar 2009 -
March Madness, April Field Trips, Snapper Prairie Now Part Of Faville Grove
Feb 2009 -
Back to the Future, February Thaw, Book Review: The Vanishing Present
Jan 2009 -
Winter Workparties and a Field Trip, Winter Wetland Wonderland, 2009 Summer Internship Program
Dec 2008 -
Cure for Cabin Fever, Building the Future at FG, The Year Ahead at FGS,
Summer Internships: Making the Difference, Volunteers Replant Charles Prairie South
Oct 2008 -
Documenting the Recovery, Upcoming Volunteers Opportunities, Extreme Make Over, Sacred Ground:
Nature and Reality
Aug 2008 -
New Ecologist/Land Steward, Unnatural Natural Disaster Hits the Crawfish Prairie,
TogetherGreen at FG, Audubon Adventure Days, Fall 2008 Seed Collecting
Faville Grove Sanctuary news from MAS's CAWS Newsletter:
March/April 2013 - "Oak Savannas" and "Prairie Polemic"
February 2013 - "Kestrel Project Comes to Faville Grove"
January 2013 - "Into the New Year" and "2013 Summer Internships"
December 2012 - "A Changing Landscape" and "People Power"
November 2012 - "Faville Marsh Up Close"
October 2012 - "In Times of Stress, Native Habitat is Key" and "Prairie Gold"
September 2012 - "An Office With a View: Reflections from a Summer Intern"
June 2012 - "Notes from Faville Grove" and "Faville Grove Welcomes Back Matt Weber"
Enter Orchis:
July 2010 - Calendar and Fall Potluck, The Land Ethic and Land Protection, Melilotus Madness
April 2010 - May Day!, First Quarter Report, Future of Oak Ecosystems, Deciding What to Restore
January 2010 - Progress in the Ledge, Why a Hunrey Planet Needs More Prairie, Internship Announcement, Sunrise Fieldtrip
November 2009 - Year in Review, 2009 Restoration, New Land Acquisition, GHA Approved, Eagle Scout Kiosk
September 2009 - Fall Schedule, Grant Renewed, Summer in the Sanctuary, Flood Recovery, New Signs and Map
May 2009 - New Look, FGS Loses a Friend, Living by the Land, State Wildlife Grant, Burn Season
Mar 2009 - March Madness, April Field Trips, Snapper Prairie Now Part Of Faville Grove
Feb 2009 - Back to the Future, February Thaw, Book Review: The Vanishing Present
Jan 2009 - Winter Workparties and a Field Trip, Winter Wetland Wonderland, 2009 Summer Internship Program
Dec 2008 - Cure for Cabin Fever, Building the Future at FG, The Year Ahead at FGS, Summer Internships: Making the Difference, Volunteers Replant Charles Prairie South
Oct 2008 - Documenting the Recovery, Upcoming Volunteers Opportunities, Extreme Make Over, Sacred Ground: Nature and Reality
Aug 2008 - New Ecologist/Land Steward, Unnatural Natural Disaster Hits the Crawfish Prairie, TogetherGreen at FG, Audubon Adventure Days, Fall 2008 Seed Collecting
