Welcome to the website of the Caledonia Conservancy LTD.

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Mission

The Caledonia Conservancy is committed to preserving the rural character of the Village by acquisition, stewardship and holding conservation easements on the land. The Conservancy works cooperatively with the community, schools, business and government providing public access to equestrian and recreational trails and nature education enhancing the quality of life..

This year, please help us continue with our work by donating to the Caledonia Conservancy

Make a donation to the Caledonia Conservancy to help us preserve our green spaces, our outdoor activities, and continued education in the natural world for children.

Our Latest Accomplishment

The Caledonia Conservancy's School to Nature program received a grant from the Root Pike Watershed Initiative Network. The grant award was for $1,285 and will help us buy more equipment, supplies, pay a part of each of the school buses , bookmarks, and informational signs. Please stop by Tabor Woods in the mornings of May 14-17 and May 21-23 to watch what the program is all about. We will be having 50 sixth graders plus their teachers out each morning from McKInley, Starbuck, and Gilmore Middle Schools. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, contact Sandy DeWalt at sdewalt@wi.rr.com. OUr program has been written up in the Gathering Waters annual report as a program to be proud of.

As of early 2012, the Caledonia Conservancy LTD is now accredited with the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. Please click here for more information.

Equine Land Conservation Resource presents Anson W. Taylor, Jr. Award for leadership in equine land conservation to the Caledonia Conservancy LTD.

To learn more about this gracious award, please click here.

About Us

Would you like to learn more about the Caledonia Conservancy LTD and how you can help preserve the land in your community? Please click here to learn more about us.

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News

Our Annual Poker Ride is coming up!

Every year our Stewardship Committee puts on a great ride featuring the trails of the Caledonia Conservancy. We've got great food, great friends to meet, and a beautiful setting of Neubauer Farm at 5551 Short Rd. in Caledonia as our starting point. Visit our Poker Ride page here for your sign up form and make sure you join us on June 15th!

We've got honeybees!

Kevin and Anne Lampe were nice enough to place hives on some of our properties and we look forward to harvesting honey in the near future. Click here to learn more.

Join Us on May 4th, 2013 for our Annual Bird Walk

This is prime time for neo-tropical birds migrating from their southern hemisphere wintering grounds. Over 200 of these migrants will be breeding in Wisconsin and Canada. Warblers, vireos, flycatchers, tanagers, orioles, hummingbirds and some thrushes can be expected. In addition, many local birds such as cardinals, chickadees, bluebirds and herons may be seen nesting. Red-tailed hawks and turkey vultures may be seen patrolling the skies. This is an exciting time of year for bird watching.

Rick Fare, an... experienced birder and member of Hoy Audubon, leads the bird walk. Caledonia Conservancy host the public to join us for this Bird Walk at our Trout Ponds/Prairie property located at 4819 4 Mile Rd, on the southwest corner of Hwy. 31 and 4 Mile Rd. at 8:00 am. Bring binoculars and wear old shoes – it may be wet! This event is free and open to everyone. Meet at Trout Ponds/Prairie 7:45 a.m. in parking lot.

Spring Flower Walk in Tabor Woods on May 4th, 2013 at 10:00am

Enjoy a morning nature walk in beautiful Tabor Woods, one of Caledonia Conservancy's public access preserved land parcels. The nature walk will be led by Kay McClelland.

Tabor Woods is a natural old growth forest rich with spring native flowers like Wild geraniums, Trillium, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, May Apples, Salomon Seal, and endangered species like Blakhaw Viburnum and blue-stemmed Goldenrod.

Expect to also see wildlife, reptiles and animal habitats among the protected old growth American Beech Trees, ma...ples, oaks, hickory and butternut. There are trees in Tabor Woods that are over 300 years old, as it was never farmed or harvested for commercial use.

Sponsored by Caledonia Conservancy, an accredited Land Trust in Caledonia, WI with public access recreational walking and equestrian trails. Familes welcome. Meet at entrance to McCalvy section of Tabor Woods at end of Tabor Road cul-de-sac west of Hwy. 31.

Mark your calendars for a new Geocaching seminar with Dave Janowski. April 20th, 2013 is the date and we'll keep you updated on the location.

We need your photos!

Each year the Caledonia Conservancy creates their equestrian-themed calendar as a fundraiser and we need your photographs to make this happen. If you'd like a picture of your horse to make it into our calendar, please send your photos to Sandy DeWalt at sdewalt@wi.rr.com . Pictures need to be at least 800x1200 pixels in size (camera phone photos really don't work well) and please make sure we have your name, your horse's name and breed attached to the photo.

We've got a new School to Nature program coming up this fall!

Click here to learn more about this wonderful program for kids and how you can get involved.

We're working to make our Conservancy even better!

Click here to see what we've been up to lately..

Our New Website is Online

Information on our organization is now available online.

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