4th Annual Pancake Breakfast

BAYFIELD REGIONAL CONSERVANCY
Benefit Event

MAPLE SYRUP
PANCAKE BREAKFAST
Saturday, April 5
8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Mt. Ashwabay Ski Chalet
3 miles South of Bayfield on Ski Hill Road

Homemade Buttermilk Pancakes
Bayfield Maple Syrup, Smoked Ham,local Blueberries. Homemade Apple Sauce, Apple Cider, Coffee

Suggested donation: $10.00/adult
$5.00/child (10 or under)
$25.00/family

Thank you to all of our great, local sponsors:

6th Street Market, Apple Grove Inn, Apple Hill Orchard, Bayfield Apple Company, Ehlers Store, Highland Valley Farm, Mosquito Farm, O’Bryon’s Village Inn,
Morning View Farm, Mount Ashwabay Educational Foundation, Nourse Sugarbush, Siskowit Galloways and all our Wonderful Volunteers!

Spring 2008 Newsletter

The Bayfield Regional Conservancy's Spring Newsletter is in the mail. You can also read it on-line (click Newsletter button). This edition includes a story about Martin Hanson who recently protected his land with a preservation agreement, gifts in honor and memory, a thank you to those who helped acquire Mt Ashwabay, a story on business member Apple Grove Inn, Beauty of Birch and an essay on BRC by Howard Paap.

Membership Survey

The Bayfield Regional Conservancy is starting our strategic planning and soliciting your thoughts. Please visit our survey and share your ideas for the future of the Bayfield region.

It's kind of a fun survey and doesn't take too long to complete.

What's a little cold--the party's on!

Bayfield Regional Conservancy and Mount Ashwabay Educational Foundation would like to thank you for helping acquire the last 160 acres on Mount Ashwabay!

You are invited to join us at the Mount Ashwabay T-Bar
(Warming house bar next to the Chalet)


February 10, 2008
Noon – 4:00 pm (cake cutting and recognition at 3:00 p.m.)
FREE Cross-Country Skiing Day Passes and Refreshments for all
individuals donating to the Mount Ashwabay Special Appeal this fall. (Lunch can be purchased at the Chalet) Check in at the t-Bar to receive your free day pass.

Mount Ashwabay is located approximately 10 minutes north of Washburn off of State Hwy 13. Turn left on to Ski Hill Road and follow it all the way to the top. (Summer Home of Big Top Chautauqua)

2007 Overview

This year has been the most active ever for land conservation in the Bayfield region. Details will be in our newsletter, but here are the highlights:

Capped off the Mt Ashwabay acquisitions which now holds over 1000 acres of deep forest habitat, 42 k of nordic ski trails and preserves the Mt Ashwabay Recreation Center--a family ski hill.










Protected a quarter mile of shoreline on Bass Lake on one of only two private holdings on the lake, which has a US Forest Service canoe launch.











Permanently preserved 85 acres and numerous ponds that are a wildlife magnet west of Mellon in Ashland County.











With a land preservation agreement with a private landowner, over 500 ft of Lake Superior shoreland, 2,400 feet of intermittent streams, and 600 feet of fields visible from Hwy 13 north of the City of Washburn are forever protected.







This work is only possible due to our generous members who make annual contributions to support our conservation programs to protect these places that make this region beautiful. You can join us by making a donation here.

Mt Ashwabay--we did it!

Last week, Bayfield County purchased the last 160 acres of land on the Mt Ashwabay ridge!

BRC President, Ellen Kwiatkowski announced that the $240,000 Stewardship grant from the Department of Natural Resources was matched by contributions by many people and a much-needed boost at the last minute of a donation by Murphy Oil Refineries of Superior.

You can now ski 42 kilometers of nordic trails crossing from Star Route Rd over to Mt. Ashwabay. To print a map, go here and click on Maps.
The media coverage was phenomenal. You can read some of the stories online:
Superior Telegram
Ashland Daily Press
KUWS Wisconsin Public Radio
News Center 6 TV -- featuring Dave McCormick's song, "Letters to Leopold"

Pam Troxell 1959-2007

Pam passed on last Friday, November 9, 2007. You can read her obituary here.
The Wisconsin State Journal also published a tribute by columnist Susan Lampert Smith.
A memorial garden of native plants and a howling wolf sculpture will be created in honor of her life and life's work. You can donate to the garden by mailing a contribution to the Pam Troxell Memorial Fund at Associated Bank, 221 4th Ave W, Ashland, WI 54806. 715-682-9371.