Eliana Hudock joins Welty as part of the Impact Beloit program at Beloit College, that places students in 90 hr. internships at Stateline organizations.

In addition to field trips and games about the importance of wetlands, we had some amazing regional guest speakers join us for our first STEMinist day camp!

Thanks to our National Science Foundation-funded WELCOME grant, this is our second year of working with high school interns at Welty.

This year alone, Liz has assisted and helped with 43 programs, that is roughly 10% of all programming conducted in 2022 for a total of roughly 65 hours of contact time.

Learn how climate change will affect our gardens, housing, food, energy, and daily life–and actions we can take to temper these effects.

This year, you can stop by Big Hill Center in the afternoons (1-4pm) to visit Welty for a variety of nature-based fun.

Out of curiosity, I checked in with the newest Stateline-area composters, to hear how things were going with their new bins.

At Camp Welty, we have an exuberant staff who is ready for fun. Let me introduce you!

Proactive actions can be taken such as choosing rust-resistant cultivars as well as applying copper fungicides to cedar plants between late August and late October. Fungicides can also be applied once to apple trees near bud break to prevent infection; however, once they exhibit signs of the fungus, there is not much that can be done to prevent them from infecting nearby cedars and continuing the cycle.

A way to break this cycle to physically remove the rust galls using shears, before they have a chance to spread their spores in early spring.