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<td content="" rowspan="2" xpos="16" valign="top" width="575"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+2"><b>NEXT MEETING: is on Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Fitchburg Library, 5530 Lacy Road, Fitchburg, WI. Entomologist Dave Hogg will give a public presentation on his recent trip to the Monarch wintering Sanctuary in Mexico. For details click on Newsletter menu and then the April Newsletter.</b></font>
<!-- <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><big style="font-weight: bold;">NEXT&nbsp; MEETING&nbsp; :&nbsp;To Be Announced.
<!--Tuesday, October 10 at 7:00 p.m., in the meeting room of the Fitchburg
Public Library, 5530 Lacy Road, Fitchburg, WI.</big><span style="font-weight: bold;">&nbsp; <br>
<!-- To Be Announced
The
next SWBA meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 27, at 7:00 p.m., in
the meeting room of the Fitchburg Public Library, 5530 Lacy Road,
Fitchburg, WI. (Mark your calendar!)</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><big
style="font-weight: bold;">Two Public Programs:</big><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <big style="font-weight: bold;">1)&nbsp;&nbsp;
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aldo
Leopold's Land Ethic and the Fate of the</span>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span
style="text-decoration: underline;">Monarch&nbsp;</span><span
style="text-decoration: underline;">Butterfly</span></big><span
style="font-weight: bold;">&nbsp; </span><br>
The
Monarch Butterfly has declined by &gt;90% over the last decade, and
its
future depends crucially on management practices on privately owned
lands in the Midwest. Aldo Leopold's "land ethic" highlights the
responsibilities of private landowners to care for the other species
that live on their property, not because they are forced to do so by
regulations or coerced to do so with subsidies, but because it is
simply the right thing to do. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Professor
Stanley Temple</span> will review <br>
the Monarch situation and explain how Leopold's land ethic will play a
role in the butterfly's future.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Professor Stanley
Temple</span>
is recently retired from the academic position at the University of
Wisconsin once held by Aldo Leopold. He is now a Professor Emeritus and
a Senior Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Professor Temple is a
noted authority on conservation issues and Aldo Leopold&#8217;s contributions
to the field.&nbsp;</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<big style="font-weight: bold;">2)&nbsp;&nbsp;
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">2015: The
Year in Butterflies</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; (Mike Reese)</big><br>
Every
butterfly year is different and has its own uniqueness and
idiosyncrasies. It will be good to sit back and take stock of how
butterflies fared this past year. In this 30 minute informative
program, retired educator and butterfly expert, <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Reese</span>,
will show some of the dazzling photos he took, or that have
been&nbsp;
submitted to his award-winning website, wisconsinbutterflies.org, last
year. (It <br>
received more than 7,600 species-reports!)&nbsp; Mike
will talk about the most fascinating and significant butterfly
encounters around the state for 2015. He will explain which butterflies
were up and which were down.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Also
a brief Election of Officers</span><br>
If
you are interested in serving as an officer of SWBA for the next year,
or would like to nominate someone else, contact the Nominating
Committee Chairperson Tod Highsmith at (608) 242-1168 or at <a
href="todhighsmith@me.com">todhighsmith@me.com</a><br>
<big><br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Everyone is invited
to attend this free program.</span></big>
The meeting will last from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.&nbsp; We will
have
displays, books, handouts and plenty of time afterwards to enjoy
delicious snacks and refreshments, and talk with our speaker and other
butterfly enthusiasts.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">DIRECTIONS TO
MEETING:</span><br>
From
the Beltline, take Fish Hatchery Road (= County D) south for about 2.4
miles and turn left (east) at Lacy Rd. After 1 block the library is on
the left, at the intersection of Lacey Rd. and <br>
Research Park
Rd.&nbsp; Continue on Lacy and take the entrance road around the
far
(east) end of The library to access parking near the entrance, (behind
the library).&nbsp; <span style="font-weight: bold;">OR</span>
if you prefer to park <br>
underground, turn left (north) onto Research Park Rd and then turn
right into the ramp leading to the underground parking lot.</font></p>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span
style="font-weight: bold;"><!-- &nbsp;Details soon!
NEXT SWBA MEETING - ON&nbsp; THURSDAY,&nbsp; September 24, 2015<br>
<br>
At 7:00 p.m., in the meeting room of the Fitchburg Public Library, 5530
Lacy Road, Fitchburg, WI. (Mark your calendar!)<br>
<br>
Public Programs:<br>
<br>
1)&nbsp;&nbsp; Federally Endangered Species: Karner Blue<br>
<br>
This
45 minute presentation on the recovery of Wisconsin's most beautiful
resident "blue", will be given by Bob Hess, the coordinator of the
Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Program for the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources. <br>
<br>
The Karner Blue has dissappeared from much
of its former range in eastern North America. Today, Wisconsin has the
largest remaining population of Karner Blues and they are Federally
listed and protected as Endangered.&nbsp; Bob will discuss Karner
range, life cycle, habitat requirements, population trends, climate
change impacts and future plans for the Karner recovery program.<br>
<br>
2)&nbsp;&nbsp; The Butterflies of Texas: Lower Rio Grande
Valley and the upcoming Texas Butterfly Festival 2015.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;This
is a 30 minute presentation on some of the common and fascinating
butterflies of this unique region. Karl and&nbsp;Dorothy Legler
spend
time in Texas each year and will participate in this year's Butterfly
Festival (Oct 31-Nov 3).<br>
<br>
Everyone is invited to attend this free
program. The meeting will last from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.&nbsp; We
will have displays,&nbsp;books, handouts and plenty of time
afterwards
to enjoy delicious snacks and refreshments, and talk with our speaker
and other butterfly enthusiasts.<br>
<br>
DIRECTIONS TO MEETING:<br>
<br>
From
the Beltline, take Fish Hatchery Road (= County D) south for about 2.4
miles and turn left (east) at Lacy Rd. After 1 block the library is on
the left, at the intersection of Lacey Rd. and Research Park
Rd.&nbsp;
Continue on Lacy and take the entrance road around the<br>
far (east) end of the library to access parking near the entrance,
(behind the library).<br>
<br>
OR if you prefer to park underground, turn left (north) onto Research
Park Rd and then turn right into the ramp leading to the<br>
underground parking lot.</span></span><br>
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