The Older Wiser Land Stewards (OWLS) is an informal group of private landowners within or bordering the "Driftless Area" of SW & SC Wisconsin. Older Wiser Land Stewards (OWLS) promotes native "indigenous" landscape restoration on private acreages and homesteads through a reciprocal form of cooperative landowner assistance. The OWLS encourage fellowship through member-hosted social events, shared labor, landowner tours of restored acreages, and educational programs. The OWLS has its roots in the Sustainable Woods Cooperative (SWC), a forest management and value-added processing and marketing co-op, that marketed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood products.
The OWLS cooperatively assist fellow landowners in the restoration or complete reconstruction of native prairie, oak savanna, oak woodland, and wetland habitats on their private acreages through the sharing of knowledge, cooperative hands-on assistance, tools, and reciprocal labor. Gatherings of OWLS can often be found assisting each other in prescribed burns to foster the rehabilitation of their native oak woodland and prairie habitats. It is always easier to ask a friend for help than a stranger.
This website is a link for interested landowners in South Central and SW Wisconsin to establish new friendships and ties for the cooperative goals of reestablishing native "indigenous" flora and fauna to our private lands with the added benefit of improving water quality via restoring native landscapes within our shared watersheds.
Please view our website via the tabs and pull-down list above. A slide show, gallery, restoration tools, and links to native prairie seeding plans are among the many items of interest on our website. Enjoy and Share!!
The Older Wiser Land Stewards (OWLS) is an informal group of private landowners within or bordering the "Driftless Area" of SW & SC Wisconsin. Older Wiser Land Stewards (OWLS) promotes native "indigenous" landscape restoration on private acreages and homesteads through a reciprocal form of cooperative landowner assistance. The OWLS encourage fellowship through member-hosted social events, shared labor, landowner tours of restored acreages, and educational programs. The OWLS has its roots in the Sustainable Woods Cooperative (SWC), a forest management and value-added processing and marketing co-op, that marketed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood products.
The OWLS cooperatively assist fellow landowners in the restoration or complete reconstruction of native prairie, oak savanna, oak woodland, and wetland habitats on their private acreages through the sharing of knowledge, cooperative hands-on assistance, tools, and reciprocal labor. Gatherings of OWLS can often be found assisting each other in prescribed burns to foster the rehabilitation of their native oak woodland and prairie habitats. It is always easier to ask a friend for help than a stranger.
This website is a link for interested landowners in South Central and SW Wisconsin to establish new friendships and ties for the cooperative goals of reestablishing native "indigenous" flora and fauna to our private lands with the added benefit of improving water quality via restoring native landscapes within our shared watersheds.
Please view our website via the tabs and pull-down list above. A slide show, gallery, restoration tools, and links to native prairie seeding plans are among the many items of interest on our website. Enjoy and Share!!
A Group of OWLS Gathered for a "walk-about" on a fellow landowners rural homestead acreage. Tours highlight identification and flowering of native prairie and woodland plants, restoration strategies, and updating fellow landowners on the results of prescribed burns, inter-seeding strategies, prairie/savanna restorations and complete native habitat reconstructions.
OWLS in Action!! Finishing a prescribed burn on a diverse reconstructed prairie.
