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While a school group was walking through the marsh, one student looked at the burnt ground and said, “Whoa! Who set the marsh on fire?” I laughed and said, “We did! It might look bleak and barren now, but this fire actually helps the wetland stay healthy.” If you’ve been by the marsh and have seen the burned areas or maybe even saw the smoke rising from Eagle Marsh last week, you are not alone. Our recent prescribed burn brought a lot of attention, along with questions and mi

This summer, we partnered up with the Anthony Wayne Area Council to bring their scouts out for a service project at Eagle Marsh. Their goal was helping us install a drainage system under Trail 1, in an area which would frequently flood with runoff from the interstate. Previously, scouts had installed boardwalks in this area, but over the years, constant flooding and poor drainage left them completely embedded in the mud. It took a team of 6 scouts heaving and ho’ing to pop th

This photo taken at Fox Island County Park during a recent winter shows a normal-colored female cardinal and a female cardinal with leucism, a lack of color pigment in some of her feathers. (From Cynthia Powers)   Volunteers go out on a day between Dec. 14 and Jan. 5 to count and identify all of the bird species they see and hear. The count has been taking place annually since 1900.   “The data collected by the CBC (Christmas Bird Count) participants over the past century ha