“What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?” - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (1949). For most of their forty years of marriage, Carol and Tom Heinrich have sought out…continue reading
In 2007, the Weiss Community Library board, the City of Hayward, and CWRLT joined to plan a Preservation Project on 12 acres surrounding the new library. The project goal was to conserve and restore the…continue reading
Fourth-generation landowners on the eastern end of Lac Courte Oreilles have had their dream of land protection fulfilled. 1,400 feet of undeveloped shoreline on Wisconsin’s fifth largest natural lake, and 270 acres of forest, have…continue reading
The Northern Highlands comprise a topography of landscape formed by a series of glaciers, leaving in their wake an area dotted with lakes and wetlands, rich in well-preserved moraines, drumlins, eskers and other glacial landforms.…continue reading
An excerpt of a letter from Mr. Dimitri Hoteko: “ …My wife and I thank you very kindly for drawing up the river protection easement for our Chippewa Flowage property...We began coming to the Hayward…continue reading
Through the generosity of the James Thiel family, CWRLT has acquired land on Chief Lake, part of the Chippewa Flowage. Since the mid-1980’s James Thiel visited the property often and gained strength from its solitude…continue reading
Several years ago, a small, but distinctive land parcel on the Chippewa Flowage was listed for sale by a private owner. Numerous concerns were raised over the possible development of the island, even though it's…continue reading