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Watch
In Wisconsin's Land Trust Stories
Gathering Waters Conservancy recently worked with Wisconsin Public
Television to develop a series of television segments on land trusts.
Featured on the television show In
Wisconsin, which airs on WPT Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and
Sundays at noon, the segments are also available for viewing online. Watch these stories »
Gathering Waters Welcomes
New Excutive Director
Gathering Waters Conservancy is thrilled to welcome Michael Strigel
as our new Executive Director in February. Michael comes to us most
recently from eight years at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,
Arts, and Letters, where he served as Executive Director since 2003.
Read more»
Who are Gathering
Waters Conservancy's Members?
If you are a member, or are considering joining, we have some
information about the great group of conservation advocates who
already support Gathering Waters’ programs. In 2006 we conducted a survey
of our members. Responses have and will continue to help us design
our programs and target work that’s clearly important to
conservation supporters. Our members are an astute active group
of people committed to Wisconsin’s great places. Read
more about Gathering Waters' members »
GWC's Executive Director
Steps Aside
Gathering Waters Conservancy’s Executive Director, Vicki
Elkin, has stepped down to take on a new role as director of the
organization’s campaign to reauthorize the Knowles-Nelson
Stewardship Fund. Read more from
Vicki about her new role »
Exploring with the
Mississippi Valley Conservancy
The Mississippi Valley Conservancy launched an innovative media
campaign, producing video podcasts called MVC Explores. The
recordings tell “unexpected and interesting tales of people's
connections with the natural environment.” Read
more about South Central & Southwestern Wisconsin Land Trust
Program successes »
Estate Planning Advisors
Workshop
In response to the requests
of several land trusts, we are reaching out to the tax advisors
who work with area landowners – attorneys, accountants and
others. We are launching this training effort by co-sponsoring
an estate-planning workshop in West Bend with the Ozaukee Washington
Land Trust. The event will be held on October 27th at West
Bend Mutual Insurance Company. After this workshop, we plan
to take the estate planning curriculum on the road for a series
of smaller workshops in rural areas of southern Wisconsin to reach
a broader spectrum of landowner advisors. Read
more about Lake Michigan Basin Land Trust
Program successes »
Conservation Success along the Kinni
The Kinnickinnic River Land Trust has protected two additional
properties in the bluffs and ravines of the “Kinni River
Canyon,” creating a 490 acre contiguous block of protected
lands in this scenic resource. Read
more about Northern Wisconsin Land Trust Program successes»
Improving the Assessor’s
manual
Current law requires assessors to “consider” the effect of a conservation
easement when assessing property. Our research has shown that this relatively
ambiguous language leaves assessors without any clear direction about how to
actually value the property subject to the easement. This spring and summer,
Gathering Waters Conservancy has been working with the Department of Revenue
to provide assessors with more direction about how to assess land covered by
a conservation easement. As the Department of Revenue updates their assessor’s
manual, we hope the information we share will increase the consistency of conservation
easements assessments. Read
more about Policy successes »
 Sharing
Stories of Stewardship
This booklet will be modeled after our highly successful In Their Own Words publication. Our
summer interns took hundreds of photos and collected over 20 stories from people
who love lands that were saved by Stewardship dollars—folks who hike and
fish and hunt and stroll in these places. Every Stewardship property has
a unique and inspirational story, and we are working to bring these stories to
a broad audience. The story editing will wrap up in October, the booklet
will be designed over the fall, and we plan to begin disseminating it in early
2007. Read
more about Outreach successes »
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