DNR Should Keep Its Promise

DNR Should Keep Its Promise

Imagine a quiet landscape at the base of the Baraboo Hills where you can hear the rare song of the Henslow’s sparrow, view an eagle soaring overhead, and listen to the rustle of thousands of acres of prairie grasses. This is the potential for the former Badger Army...
CSWAB Reviews Groundwater Results for Badger Ammo

CSWAB Reviews Groundwater Results for Badger Ammo

Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) has completed a review of recently-released environmental reports by the U.S. Army at Badger Army Ammunition Plant. Army testing indicates that groundwater quality is improving in certain areas in and around the former...
Bluebird Trails at Badger Part of National Conservation Effort

Bluebird Trails at Badger Part of National Conservation Effort

Initially the bluebird trails at Badger Army Ammunition Plant were part of a study assessing risks to wildlife from exposure to residual soil contamination left by the Army. The bluebird trails at Badger are now part of a national effort to monitor and increase the...
Treasures Surface at Badger

Treasures Surface at Badger

By Mimi Wuest More and more treasures are being found on the land at the old Badger Army Plant. Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) has been running a series on their Facebook page of some of the birds that were seen at Badger during the month that it was...
Time to get Batty about Badger

Time to get Batty about Badger

This little guy is a Big Brown bat, one of seven bat species found in Wisconsin. A mobile bat survey conducted in June 2010 at Badger Army Ammunition Plant found four of these bat species – two state Threatened and two Special Concern species. A winter hibernation...
Together, we are making a difference

Together, we are making a difference

Together with other members of the Badger Oversight Management Commission, CSWAB continues to actively support the Badger Reuse Plan – a collaborative community vision for the Badger Army Ammunition Plant lands that is the result of decades of effort by private...