Lake Wingra Watershed Gathering
media release: The Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association WATER Team invites you to a family friendly event. Bring your family, a friend or neighbor. Special Activities for children. Interact with people from 30 organizations committed to clean water needed by all life forms. Learn more about water stewardship. Leave with new ideas, energy, and an expanded network as we ensure healthy lakes, streams, and the lands in-between.
* Participate in fun activities.
*Engage with storyteller Andi Cloud, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
* Enjoy art inspired by water research. *Renew your sense of connection between and among people, land, and water. *Meet homeowners with rain gardens, rain barrels, or who have prairies instead of lawns as ways to keep water out of their basements.
* Talk with neighbors who plant prairies and greenspaces on public property.
* Talk with urban vegetable gardeners.
* Learn about climate justice, climate change's impacts on Madison Lakes and ways to lessen effects.
* Learn about water management including ways to address flooding.
* Experience lake monitoring and tracking harmful chloride.
* Free native seeds while they last, with a chance for other prizes.
Supported by an award from the UW-Madison Arboretum’s Water Action to Encourage Responsibility (WATER) agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Additional funds from Wisconsin Environmental Initiative (WEI), Clean Lakes Alliance, Westmorland Neighborhood Association, Midvale Heights Neighborhood Association, Regent Neighborhood Association, Friends of Lake Wingra, and Marta Karlov.
5/21/2022 from 1-4PM
Rain date: 5/22/22 1-4PM
Where: Vilas Park Pavilion
Find more info at https://linktr.ee/
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