Gene Weber
Meet the PCA Membership and Marketing Team
Besides our wonderful volunteers that you see weekly working two hours physically beautifying our trail sides, PCA has an equal number of...
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Platteville Community Arboretum
New Volunteer, Peter Wadlund Returns to his Roots in Platteville
New volunteer, Peter Wadlund joined our PCA corps of volunteers earlier this spring and we’re sure glad to have him aboard! Peter decided...
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Sue Leamy Kies
On the Trail with a Super-Volunteer
Bob Gates began working on the Wednesday morning crew last year and soon signed up for the Monday morning crew as well. What a score!...
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Sue Leamy Kies
Plant it and They Will Come!
Carley Borcherding loves “playing in the dirt,” and that’s just what she’d been doing along the Rountree Branch Trail since its...
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Platteville Community Arboretum
PCA Raffle Tickets now Available!
Tickets available for purchase from PCA Board Members or at PCA President, Bob Hundhausen's office. Please get in touch at...
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Platteville Community Arboretum
President's Letter
Greetings from the trail, As we make our way through the bitter cold dog days of winter, PCA is going through a board member change that...
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Sue Leamy Kies
Life and Death on the Trail: Learning From Nature
On this morning’s walk I witnessed something more often seen on the National Geographic Channel or PBS’s Nature. Jojo, my walking...
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Platteville Community Arboretum
Conservation Projects: Milkweed, Monarchs and More
Last spring, Platteville resident and conservationist, Richard (Dick) Weber, sent a letter to the PCA explaining how he was considering...
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Platteville Community Arboretum
Costumed Athletes “Dash” to Support the PCA
We had beautiful weather and a great turnout for the 2021 Monster Dash on October 16, 2021! After a 2020 hiatus, we were excited to...
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Gene Weber
PCA Doubles Garage Size
PCA, UW-Platteville Agriculture Faculty and Students, along with donors collaborated on doubling the size of PCA’s garage during the fall...
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Platteville Community Arboretum
Restoration Project Updates
In the last newsletter we shared our plans on an oak savanna restoration project between the Mineral St. and Keystone Pkwy. trailheads....
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Gene Weber
Editor’s Tribute to Julie Pluemer
Julie and I were charter members of the PCA board when first founded in 2004 and made up the finance committee with David Canny. Julie...
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