Bobolink 

The "Welcome" section welcomes you to the 2011 Prairie Chicken Festival and tells you a little about the many learning opportunities, delights and joys that await you at the festival. It also tells a little about this trail and directs you to it.

From this section you can also access an "Update Bulletin Board" where we can quickly inform you of any last minute planning changes or present new information concerning the festival.

 Dickcissel 

The "Introduction" section introduces and describes the 2011 Prairie Chicken Festival web site. You are now in that section and on a trail that leads you around the site and gives you a brief overview of the layout and content of the site. Following this trail should help assure you that you can find the information you are most interested in and give you a good idea of all of the many interesting and useful subjects that await your exploration.

 Greater Prairie Chicken 

The "Festival Events" section is essential for planning your Festival visits. It gives you the tools and information necessary to make the most of your festival experience. Among other things, it contains an interactive map of Central Wisconsin that will help you become oriented with the six festival locations and acquainted with the nature and timing of the events taking place at each location. It contains guides that will make it easy for you, regardless of whether you like to plan for a particular day or for a particular location.

 Northern Harrier 

This is also a "Must See" section of the site. It tells you a little about why we celebrate the grasslands and how the festival was started to bring awareness to the land and of its value to many species of wildlife, as well as farmers. It describes how wildlife and working lands can co-exist to the benefit of both.

It gives some tips on what type of equipment and clothing you may want to bring along for enjoying the festival and a bit about the entry fee to most locations.

It describes the viewing blinds, booming grounds and the sights you will experience from the viewing blinds. It describes your morning at the blinds and gives tips on proper clothing to wear and equipment you may want to bring with you to the viewing blinds. It tells how you can assist the Department of Natural Resources conduct their census of the Prairie Chicken population.

It describes the festival's History. It's a short history, but we think you will find it extremely interesting and entertaining. You can read about how the festival came about and how various groups rapidly took an interest in the events and lent their support. You can also learn about the early research that led to the concepts the festival celebrates.

You'll also learn about good local lodging facilities where you can relax and contemplate all the day's activities in pleasant and comfortable surroundings

 Eastern Meadowlark 

Many people, organizations and businesses have become involved in the festival undertaking though the years and they make it all possible. We'd like to introduce them to you and we do that in this section of the site. They include the Organizers, Site Hosts, Exhibitors and Vendors, Planning Committee, Partners, Sponsors, Donors and Fundraisers.

 Henslow's Sparrow 

This section tells you how you can easily contact us for whatever reason. We welcome your comments. Contact us to discuss the festival, make a reservation for a viewing blind to watch the Prairie Chickens. Let us know if you want to make a donation, ask a question, offer advice, become a sponsor or vendor, donor, fund raiser or volunteer.

 Brewer's Blackbird 

This section tells about the need to enhance grassland wildlife habitat and discusses programs designed to help property owners protect and conserve their land while enhancing wildlife habitat. It tells what you can do in your backyard and in the country and on the farm to enhance wildlife habitat. This section also presents some observations Aldo Leopold expressed about this great land in "A Sand County Almanac".

 Short-Eared Owl 

In early 2005, agriculture and conservation organizations and private landowners formed the Central Wisconsin Grassland Conservation Area (CWGCA) Partnership. It aims to restore and create new habitat for grassland species, especially the Greater Prairie Chicken (GPC). It promotes a healthy rural economy that provides the open landscape that so many grassland species depend on. The partnership is described in this section of our festival web site, along with a brief history of the Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin.

 Bobolink 

This section displays links to all the sections in the entire Prairie Chicken Festival web site. It can be of help if you are already familiar with our site and want to rapidly find a certain section or page. It may also assist you to quickly search for a specific topic you may be searching for on our web site.

 Sandhill Crane 

This section lists several links to other sites that you may find interesting. It may be helpful if perhaps something in our Prairie Chicken Festival site perked your interest in certain people or places that you'd like to learn more about.

The links relate to sites of some of the people you may have become familiar with in our site, as well as to Festival exhibitors and vendors, food suppliers, hosts, sponsors and some of the lodging facilities available in the area. You will also want to visit Kent Jakucz's web site to view our festival video.

We included all the links in one location at the end of our site so you could easily find all of them. Our feeling is that dispersing such links throughout our site would only confuse you and distract you from your main interests. Often such links distributed throughout a site will result in several web sites being open simultaneously and the viewer lost and not knowing what site he is actually in or not knowing exactly how to get back to the original site he was primarily interested in.