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From the Executive Director I spent my first six months at Gathering Waters Conservancy on tour. I made a pointed effort to meet and sometimes share coffee or a meal with many of the people who have made this organization what it is – board members, founders, long-time supporters, leaders of partner organizations. I asked them why Gathering Waters Conservancy matters. Over and over I heard that we matter because there is no other group working the way we do to help land trusts protect Wisconsin’s special places. On this tour I also discovered, not surprisingly, a great collection of talent among people of all stripes who share one powerful, common Michael Strigel, Executive Director interest. We all care a lot about land in Wisconsin. The power of that passion for Wisconsin’s special places fuels this organization. We have stirred up and captured it from supporters statewide in our Stewardship Campaign. It is the adhesive that brings together our collaborative projects in places like the Lake Michigan Basin and the St. Croix Watershed. Our staff visit land trusts across the state – some run out of dining rooms, others from staffed offices – and come back energized by the commitment of people determined to protect the lands that matter most to their communities. I hope you are impressed, as I am, by this report and by what we’ve done with that collected passion for Wisconsin’s great outdoors. As a member of our organization, your own commitment to conservation has July 1, 2006 -June 30, 2007 powered our work to date. Thank you. This fall, Gathering Waters Conservancy will design a strategic plan for the next three years. We have ambitious goals to meet powered by Wisconsinites’ love for outdoor

2007 places we visit with our families year after year. I’m looking forward to our planning work this fall. As my infinite “tour” of Gathering Waters continues, if you have ideas about why Gathering Waters is valuable, feel free to contact me. I welcome the input. Sincerely,

Michael Strigel at gathering waters conservancy we come to work because... July 1, 2006 -June 30, 2007

There are so many committed people working He and his fellow townspeople own it; school Board of Directors across the state to protect their special places. groups visit regularly; dedicated volunteers Arthur Harrington, Pete Putnam, a retired engineer, assumed the burn, collect seeds, cut brush and welcome President, Milwaukee land across the road from his house would hikers and birders to their 61-acre park. be developed. It was for sale and slated Darrell Bazzell, The constellation of players who saved Vice President, Madison for annexation by the neighboring village the Holland Sand Prairie is unique but not as commercial property. Pete regretted the unparalleled in Wisconsin. Land trusts statewide Chuck Haubrich, inevitable bulldozing—he valued the view. He catalyze community hope to protect the places Treasurer, Burlington and his neighbors walked their dogs there in that make Wisconsin special. Gathering Waters Joy Stieglitz Gottschalk, the evenings. Their daughters prowled the Conservancy works to keep landowners, Secretary, Madison property amassing wildflower collections for communities, land trusts and their funders Bill Berry, biology class. It was home to a fascinating array informed, well equipped and energized. Stevens Point of birds. It was disappointing to think the land Peter Dohr, was destined for strip malls. Our resolute campaign to see the state’s Madison Stewardship Fund reauthorized in the state Alice Godfrey, Pete ventured to a few meetings about the budget is fueled by determination that all Avoca future of the property. He learned that the communities should be able to respond as Shawn Graff, West Bend vacant land was the single remnant of an the Town of Holland did when important ancient prairie that once stretched for miles Tim Jacobson, lands are on the market. We share information La Crosse across western Wisconsin. He learned that the with landowners in every county about their Thomas “Tuck” Mallery, DNR had tried to buy the land but couldn’t conservation options; we reach out to their Mosinee meet the seller’s price. He learned that several lawyers and advisors, as well. Ten years ago Howard Mead, neighbors cared a good deal that the land Madison Gathering Waters’ staff met with committed Bryan Pierce, be protected—though none could afford to citizens in La Crosse intent on forming a land Eagle River purchase it alone. And he learned what an trust. The Mississippi Valley Conservancy is now Lew Posekany, asset he had in his local land trust. one of the largest land trusts in the state. Our Verona Rudy Rasin, The Mississippi Valley Conservancy gave Pete ongoing technical service to Wisconsin land Chicago, IL and his neighbors an opportunity to save their trusts remains the backbone of our mission to Patricia Stocking, prairie. With a grant from the state’s Knowles- help communities protect their woods, farms, Madison Nelson Stewardship Fund and the support prairies and waterways. Joan R. Ziegler, Slinger of their members, the Conservancy offered a To all those who have supported our efforts sizable portion of the asking price. In a landslide in the recent fiscal year, thank you. With your Staff vote, town residents pledged tax money to help, we are working toward a day when make up the rest. Michael Strigel people in every community know that as their Executive Director And Pete, who now knows that development communities grow, they can turn to their strong Karen Bassler of natural areas is not inevitable, is president of local land trust to help safeguard the woods, Conservation Program the Friends of Holland Sand Prairie and does prairies and local swimming holes that make us Director much more than walk his dog on the land. all come home to Wisconsin. Dana Chabot Office Administrator Sara DeKok Member Relations Director Althea Dotzour Outreach & Policy Coordinator Vicki Elkin Stewardship Campaign Director Pam Foster Felt we help people Education & Outreach Coordinator protect the places Liz Walsh Operations & Program that make Coordinator special Kyle Barber Wisconsin Andrea Ward

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In Fiscal Year 2007, Gathering Waters Conservancy... Strengthened our Core We hired Mike Strigel as Executive Director. Rooted in Wisconsin conservation, he brings 8 years experience leading a statewide non- profit; we’re lucky to have him aboard. Advocated for Conservation We campaigned to see the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund reauthorized, blanketed media with pro-Stewardship articles and letters and ushered over 400 people through the Capitol to meet lawmakers directly. We published and distributed over 15,000 copies of Stories of Stewardship, a booklet celebrating places protected with Stewardship funds. Stewardship Matters We supported local and statewide farmland preservation efforts. We worked with the Department of Revenue to revise the 2007 Wisconsin Assessors Manual to include information about Gathering Waters Conservancy is determined to see the broad conservation easements. We spread news of expanded federal public support for conservation of Wisconsin’s special places tax incentives for conservation gifts and continue to lobby our echoed in public policy. So, this year we launched a campaign Washington delegation to make those incentives permanent. on behalf of the state’s Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund. After successfully defending the Stewardship Fund against Shared Expertise attempted cuts in past years, Gathering Waters went on the We spoke to landowners statewide – at least one a week – about offensive. Our goal is to see lawmakers extend the Stewardship their conservation options and educated their financial planners, Fund well beyond its current expiration date of 2010. Thanks attorneys and accountants through accredited trainings about in large part to our efforts, the Legislature is considering a conservation tools and tax law. We addressed over 70 Wisconsin proposal to renew the Stewardship Fund through 2020 and Assessors about evaluating conservation easements. We introduced increase funding so that Stewardship can keep pace with land trusts to new audiences including builders’ associations, rising land values. We plan to continue this campaign past the county conservationists, village boards, lake associations and estate planning councils. current budget negotiations to ensure that the Stewardship Fund is on solid bipartisan ground and off limits to political Wisconsin Land Trusts sparring in the future. Strengthened We connected land trust practitioners to current news, knowledge and trends by co-hosting a seminar by a national tax law expert, Thanks to all the land trusts and individuals who have participated serving on the program committee for the Midwest Regional Land in our campaign for the Stewardship Fund and to the following Trust Conference and by holding the 2007 Wisconsin Land Trust for contributing financially to this multi-year effort. Staff Retreat. We consulted one-on-one with over 15 land trusts and conservation groups. Our staff led a workshop, “Building a Robust Foundations Individuals Membership Program,” and authored resources for land trusts on Brico Fund Johanna & Michael Allex site conservation planning and preparing for accreditation. McKnight Foundation Darrell Bazzell Charles Boardman Conservation Success Organizations Linda Bochert Celebrated Scott Brandt We promoted field trips on protected lands. We honored notable Baraboo Range Presevation Association Bob & Geri Brogan conservation achievements with our annual Land Conservation Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation Julie Gallagher & Ted Rolfs The Conservation Fund Alice Godfrey Leadership Awards. We helped Wisconsin Public Television film Door County Land Trust Joy & Rob Gottschalk a half-hour In Wisconsin special on land trusts and appeared in Friends of Pheasant Branch Art Harrington Wisconsin Trails and Madison Originals magazines, on Wisconsin 2007 Glacial Lakes Conservancy Chuck Haubrich Kenosha Racine Land Trust Harold “Bud” Jordahl Public Radio’s Larry Meiller show and Madison’s WORT radio. Lauderdale Lakes Conservancy Darcy Kind Mississippi Valley Conservancy Margaret A. Kohring Cultivated Collaboration annual report Natural Heritage Land Trust David Ladd Northwoods Land Trust Tuck Mallery We guided the creation of the St. Croix River Watershed Ozaukee Washington Land Trust Walt & Stacey Meanwell Conservation Report, funded staff for the Milwaukee County Trout Unlimited Bryan Pierce Conservation Coalition, represented land trust interests to state Waukesha Land Conservancy Lew & Vicki Posekany West Wisconsin Land Trust Gene & Jean Roark and federal funding programs and continued to convene the Lake Robert Rusch Michigan Shorelands Alliance. Ron Schwartzlow Trish Stocking John & Kine Torinus Encouraged Future Leaders Joan & Peter Ziegler We provided long-term internships in outreach, public policy and membership development.

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Land Legacy Society We are grateful for the grants individuals events investments other leadership of the following $394,562 families $44,106 $30,653 $12,686 contributors: businesses $10,000 and above $178,368 Julie Gallagher & Ted Rolfs Alice Godfrey Terry F. & DiAnne Hatch Jean & Walter A. Meanwell $5,000 - $9,999 Arthur Harrington David Ladd total income Walter E. & Stacey Meanwell Outrider Foundation $660,375 Joan & Peter Ziegler $2,000 - $4,999 Anonymous Francis Beidler III Peter Bemis Linda Bochert Charles Boardman Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Foundation Bob & Geri Brogan total expense Dale Druckrey Tom & Carol Ehrsam $637,611 Jerry Frautschi & Pleasant Rowland Joy & Rob Gottschalk Wendy McCalvy Luigi Mumford Jeff Patterson technical Arline Paunack assistance Margaret Van Alstyne policy & program West Bend Community education Foundation’s Ziegler Family & govt. stewardship develop- & outreach Foundation Fund relations admin. fundraising campaign ment $107,009 Nancy Winter $27,591 $57,424 $83,520 $161,918 $200,149 $1,000 - $1,999 Bruce J. Adreani Darrell Bazzell net income: $22,764 Robert & Anne Bolz John Brogan Peter & Joy Dohr Emily Earley Dan Erdman Kevin & Joan Evanich contributors Scott Froehlke $500 - $999 Brynn Bemis Mike & Linda Slavney Bob & Jacki Bradham John Gehl American Transmission Judi Benade & Bill Grogan Bill & Jacqueline Smith Robert H. Bradner Charles & Jill Haubrich Company Bill & Katherine Biersach David Statz & Denise Wall-Statz Scott Brandt Charlie & Carol James Tom & Shaila Bolger Tom Boelter Gerald Viste Joan Braune & Tod Highsmith Harold “Bud” Jordahl Mary & Charles Kamps Cheryl & Mark Brickman Elaine Burke Bill White & Kathie Nichols Mary Brazeau Brown Geoffrey & Edith Maclay Dana & Patricia Chabot Sherren Clark J.J. & Judge Annette Ziegler Kerry & Cheryl Brimmer Tuck & Peggie Mallery Laurence Compton Willis Brown & Photina Ree Elizabeth Frautschi Howard & Nancy Mead Joan Grootemaat Jim & Nancy Curtes $100 - $249 Fran & Paul Burton Marilynn Myers Melita & Bill Grunow Vicki Elkin & Mike Ivey Tenny Albert & Candace Weber R. David & Vonnie Callsen Bill O’Connor & Krista Roys Rob & Elke Hagge Robert & Eugenie Friedman Kristin & David Alexander Robert Chambers Lorain Olsen Lawrence Hitch Bob Gurda & Betty Craig Todd Ambs Arlen Christenson Charlotte Palmer Phillips Angela James Terry Haller James Arts & Helene Nelson Joan Christopherson-Schmidt Foundation Amy Kaster Alan Jones, Jr. Nancy Aten & Daniel Collins Doug & Kendra Cieslak Bill & Betty Parsons Robert & Susan Kinde Marlen & John Kaiser Anne Bachner Harold Clark, Jr. John Edward Porter Shannon McCarthy Anne & Paul Koeppe Jake & Kristin Barnes Mary Ellen Close Lewis & Vicki Posekany Nancy Nebgen Margaret A. Kohring James & Carol Baumgart Jon Colby Richard Ring Plum Creek Timber Rip & Karen Maclay Thomas Beech Jack Connelly & Terri Connelly Tom & Mary Rolfs Robert Rusch Trish Stocking & Jonathan Ela Shirley Maloney Wendy Bemis Cronk Gerald Scholz Levi & Janet Wood Jon Moffatt Beth Bier Honner & Bob Cooper Eric & Jane Schumann B. C. & Liz Ziegler III Charles and Carolyn Mowbray Virginia & T. Michael Bolger Pat & Dan Cornwell David & Kate Simon R. Douglas & Sharon Ziegler Angie Nash Jack & Marian Bolz Harriett Crosby

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“We’ve never really felt we own the land…it found us and we’re interim caretakers. The conservation easement felt like an obvious, right thing to do for this incredible place.” - Mariana Weinhold

Permanently Protected In 2004 Frank and Mariana Weinhold visited Gathering Waters’ office to learn about conservation options. They owned incredible property on the Wisconsin River. The land, known as Louis’ Bluff, includes over a mile of undeveloped shoreline, a prominent wooded sandstone bluff and a patch of bluff-top prairie. The Weinholds felt compelled to make sure that those natural treasures outlasted their ownership. We explained the legal tools that might keep the property undeveloped and urged them to call the Natural Heritage Land Trust. “The Weinholds came to us very well informed,” explains Natural Heritage Land Trust Executive Director Jim Welsh. And in May 2007, the land trust used a grant from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Fund to purchase a conservation easement protecting Louis’ Bluff forever. Whether in person, on the phone or via our web page, we at Gathering Waters share information about private land conservation with people statewide. When they call us, we introduce them to their local land trusts. All our supporters can be satisfied that our collective efforts help people like the Weinholds protect the places that make Wisconsin special. The Wisconsin River from atop Louis’ Bluff, photo Natural Heritage Land Trust