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Neenah outlines 5-year plan for Carpenter Preserve, schedules volunteer tree-planting and sheep grazing
Summary
City staff presented a revised master plan for Carpenter Preserve, outlined a 2025 work program and budget request, and announced volunteer events including a May 3 tree-planting for 1,100 trees and rotational sheep grazing on about 6 acres.
The City of Neenah’s parks director presented a revised master plan for Carpenter Preserve on April 2, detailing a phased five-year implementation schedule, a $100,000 budget request for 2025, and community volunteer events to support restoration work.
Michael Kading, Neenah director of parks and recreation, told the Common Council the revised plan follows a wetland delineation submitted to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in June 2024 and public input in 2023. Kading said the plan breaks projects into year-by-year phases and “that’s the game plan we needed to get to.”
The plan covers work across the preserve’s roughly 103 acres, noting that 30 acres were first purchased in 1996 and 71 acres in 1999. Kading described the project as a multi-year effort to remove invasive species, replant native trees and build a connected trail between…
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