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Tri-State Forest Stewardship Conference
Sinsinawa, Wisconsin
March 11, 2006
Surviving the Early Years of a Restoration Project
Jeff Heubschman and Mike Penn
Jeff Heubschman
Jeff Huebschman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He obtained a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he conducted research on the Franklin 's ground squirrel. Jeff has also researched birds, butterflies, and bats. His research has taken place largely in the field, often in small relicts of native habitat. Upon moving to Wisconsin and purchasing a house, Jeff and his wife Erin decided to convert a portion of their own lot and the entirety of two adjacent lots in their neighborhood to native prairie and savanna. This endeavor, still in its infancy, has proven educational to Jeff and Erin and amusing to their neighbors. The two of them, supervised by their Labrador retriever Miles, spend many hours working on their property.
Mike Penn
Mike Penn is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He earned a Ph.D. from Michigan Tech, studying lake water quality. He teaches classes on groundwater hydrology, wastewater treatment, waste management and stormwater quality, and co-authored the textbook Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering . Growing up in rural, southern Michigan and being an avid fisher/hunter, Mike had always wanted to own recreational land. He married a Forest Ecologist, and they purchased 20 acres of woods/pasture in SW Wisconsin. The hunting engineer soon evolved into a prairie/savanna restorationist.
For a PDF version of Jeff and Mike's presentation, Download pdf tsfsc-2006-restoration.pdf (5.79 MB)
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