Mush-Ko-Se-Day Park Photos

Volunteering is Fun!

Come for a few hours the first and third Saturday mornings of each month to help make our park beautiful. We start at 9:00 am. For more info call Carol Clavey at 920-563-6406.  


Park entrance sign on a day in early spring when green was just peeking out.

The entrance to the park from Aspen Road, with the green of Spring just peeking out.

Volunteers working on installation of a pier overlooking one of the ponds.

Wanie's Overlook is put in place.

Pier volunteer team consisting of 8 men.

The installation team.

An informational kiosk near completion in the park's parking lot.

Next to the parking lot an informational kiosk nears completion.

Handmade sign at entrance to park under a large oak tree in early spring.

A grand oak at the park's entrance with the finished kiosk in the background.

Hundreds of native shrubs were planted and mulched by town residents.

Hundreds of native shrubs were planted, mulched, and marked with flags. They will provide excellent habitat for birds, wind protection and other elements conducive to wildlife.

Three Project Lead members levelling one of the holders of the interpretive signs.

The Fort Atkinson Area Chamber of Commerce's Project Lead participants raised money and donated time to design, build and install four interpretive signs around the park.

Numerous volunteers around two interpretive sign laid on the ground, almost ready for installation.

The posts for the signs are made from black locust trees, a wood with an inherant resistence to decay.

An interpretive sign at the pier overlooking the pond.

A finished interpretive sign at Wanie's Overlook in the deep green of deep summer.

The short grass prairie beginning to bloom.

The second summer in the restored short grass prairie-- it is still in its infancy.

A single tuft of Correopsis in bloom.

Correopsis-- just one of many flowering plants (forbes) in the short grass prairie.

A single Large Flowered Beardtongue

Large Flowered Beardtongue

A man leaning against a long pole with a large bird house on top.

Jim Varah & Walt Christensen installed a barred owl house, kestrel boxes would soon follow.

A mature gentlemen standing distant in the short grass prairie.

Dick Wanie, in addition to working on various projects at the park, leads a quasi-annual bird walk.

Numerous people look to the sky.

Bird walk participants eye a flying specimen.

Several people gather round to see a small snake in a man's hand.

Jim Varah shares a tiny snake he picked up.

Specimens of birds lade out on a table with onlookers gathered round.

Examples of a variety of regional birds.