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Community Spotlight: Sheboygan County’s Wade House Planting Project

By Tracy Folz, Sheboygan Sun Reporter

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The Sheboygan Rotary Club’s Restoration of Our Trees Sheboygan initiative, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Urban Forestry Team, Wade House Historic Site and a team of people from Johnsonville and Kohler planted a mixture of 59 trees during United Way’s Day of Caring on Thursday, Sept. 24 at the Wade House.

DNR Urban Forestry Coordinator Olivia Witthun and two DNR college summer interns, Emma Kimball and Casey Czerwonka, created a planting plan listing the types of trees to be planted and the location where the trees should be planted. The interns are studying environmental science. Kimball is a junior at Marquette University, and Czerwonka is a senior at UW-Milwaukee. Continue reading “Community Spotlight: Sheboygan County’s Wade House Planting Project” →