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On May 19th - 2007, several
Ulao Creek Partnership members participated in a Garlic Mustard Pull on the
WE Energies properly located off of STH 32 and Ulao Parkway and Tom Latzl’s property adjacent to WE Energies in an effort to remove garlic
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On
Saturday, March 10, 2007, an intrepid group of people from the Ulao Creek
Partnership hiked through the 'headwaters' of Ulao Creek. They brought
their boots, chili, and a sense of adventure! The hike started at 9AM
at Tim Kaul’s house (
1669 Ulao Parkway South
). They hiked through the swamp discussing swamp features, concerns
about the creek bed, stressed/dead trees, cattails, flora, invasive,
wildlife, and Jill Hapner's vegetative work.
After the hike, they returned to Tim’s house to warm up with some chili.
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The Ulao Creek
Partnership had an Open Houses on Thursday evening, May 31, 2001 at Grafton
Town Hall opened to welcome more than 100 guests to the Ulao Creek
Partnership Open House. Volunteers greeted many local area families,
including land owners, city and town officials and visitors who wanted to
know “what was going on at ULAO CREEK?”
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A partnership of
local landowners and county and state agencies hired the researchers to
complete a plant inventory in the swamp as part of a restoration project
for the Ulao Creek watershed in eastern Ozaukee County. The swamp protects
the headwaters of the stream.
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An amphibian and
reptile search, known as a herptile inventory, is part of an ongoing Ulao
Creek restoration and management project. The local landowners, county and
state agencies, and researchers participating in the partnership expect to
prepare a watershed land-use plan in a few years.
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The reforestation of the Ulao Creek Swamp
to
native Tamarack and Cedar trees started in April of 1999.
The swamp was once a forest, filled with trees adapted to wetland
areas. In the early 1900's the swamp began to dry out and eventually
was completely drained to allow for farming. Hardwoods took the
place of its native trees. Now, the groundwater has naturally begun
to shift, the swamp started to come back and the hardwoods are dying.
Nine hundred tamarack
seedlings were purchased and
on
April 10, 1999 the UCP held its first tree
planting. Five hundred Tamarack were planted on
April 29, 2000 and on April 18, 2001 approximately 2000 trees were
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