This fiction book is about a veteran journalist who tires of the hype and spin of modern media and decides to seek something truthful in the wilds of Tasmania. Two chapters also are set in the Driftless area of Wisconsin. Available via www.iUniverse.com, www.amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Or: Order here.
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Valley Stewardship Network
Our Mission:
Valley Stewardship Network encourages, promotes and helps create opportunities for pro-active stewardship efforts in the Kickapoo River Watershed through education and awareness efforts and by promoting community pride, positive land use, compatible development and communication and coordination among groups in the watershed.
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Welcome to the Kickapoo Valley Reserve:
A Unique Project from All Vantage Points
The Kickapoo Valley Reserve is an 8,569 acre tract of land located between the villages of La Farge and Ontario in southwestern Wisconsin. Its history, resources, administration, and recreational diversity make it unique - a place like no other.
We invite you to come see for yourself the many wonders of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve. Here sandstone outcroppings tower over the Kickapoo River as you paddle its quiet waters, and native plants and animals abound in all seasons. Whether you'd like to join us for a scheduled interpretive hike, adventure into the back country on your own, or simply stop and admire the beauty, the Kickapoo Valley Reserve welcomes you! Click here for more.
A tired participant takes a nap after competing in a dog sled weight pull at the KVR winter festival
Driftless Images
In Pixels and Prose
Welcome to Driftless Images, a site that morphed out of the Driftless Writers Blog. into Driftless and now to its present format .The site still serves as a forum for folks who love the creativity and challenge of using the language in written form.
It doesn't matter whether you are a student, hobby writer or a pro -- or whether you write prose or poems -- you can post your work here. Just use the Driftless Writes Blog Message Board below.
You won't be paid for your writing. Any obscene or libelous/slanderous posts will be removed by the publisher. But, if you can live with those rules, you can use this as a forum to see your work in "print" in cyberspace.
Driftless Images also is the home for The Driftless Area Creative Maps Project, an attempt by this writer/photographer -- Gregg Hoffmann -- to document one of the unique areas of the world in images and words -- thus pixels and prose.
Over the next few years, I plan on writing about the people, places and things that make the Driftless area unique. Some of the stories I have done already are on the Message Board.
The Driftless Area is a relative well-kept secret in the southwest corner of Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and northwest Illinois.
Its karst geology makes it unique, gives it beauty and also makes it an environmentally fragile area.
We'll document that as well as the characters who inhabit the area and some of the communities and places that give it further identity. We'll also try to capture some of the beauty of the area in online photos.
You also can give us your opinion, or write about your favorite place or person too by using the Driftless Writers Blog message board below.
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Post your writing by clicking below
You can write your piece right on the blog, but it usually is better to copy and paste it into the site from your own computer. All works on this site are copyright protected and cannot be used again without permission from the authors.
Gregg Hoffmann also posts his Almost Weekly Blog on issues, in this section. Feel free to post notices and opinions about community issues.
Driftless Writers Blog
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The Westby Ski Jump at Snowflake held its first night jump in the 87 year history of the event Friday, Feb. 5. Check out some videos of it by clicking here. For a Shutterfly.com gallery of ski jump photos, click here.
Jumpers from a half dozen nations competed. Hakon Helgesen of Norway won the Super Tour competition over the weekend, with Borge Blikeng of Norway finishing second and Mika Kumala of Finland third.
Local Food Initiative Gets $40,000
The area Local Food Initiative received a big boost Tuesday, Jan. 19, when state Secretary of Agriculture Rod Nilsestuen announced it has received a $40,000 grant, the largest of nine given to initiatives around the state.
Nilsestuen made the announcement while cutting the ribbon at Premier Meats, a new meat processing company between Viroqua and Westby.
The grant will impact Vernon, Crawford, Richland, Monroe and La Crosse counties. VEDA will coordinate the effort designed to increase the purchase of local food by providing coordination through a multi-stakeholder cooperative to be used by producers, processors and institutions in western Wisconsin.
For more, see the full story on this site's Message Board. For a related story, click here. For a story on the VEDA site, click here.
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