Past Projects

The Ulao Creek Partnership had an Open Houses on Thursday evening, May 31, 2001 at Grafton Town Hall opened to welcome more than 100 guests to the Ulao Creek Partnership Open House. Volunteers greeted many local area families, including land owners, city and town officials and visitors who wanted to know “what was going on at ULAO CREEK?”

A partnership of local landowners and county and state agencies hired the researchers to complete a plant inventory in the swamp as part of a restoration project for the Ulao Creek watershed in eastern Ozaukee County. The swamp protects the headwaters of the stream.  

The reforestation of the Ulao Creek Swamp to native Tamarack and Cedar trees started in April of 1999.  The swamp was once a forest, filled with trees adapted to wetland areas.  In the early 1900's the swamp began to dry out and eventually was completely drained to allow for farming.  Hardwoods took the place of its native trees.  Now, the groundwater has naturally begun to shift, the swamp started to come back and the hardwoods are dying.  Nine hundred tamarack seedlings were purchased and on April 10, 1999 the UCP held its first tree planting.  Five hundred Tamarack were planted on April 29, 2000 and on April 18, 2001 approximately 2000 trees were planted.

Herpes Studies

An amphibian and reptile search, known as a herptile inventory, is part of an ongoing Ulao Creek restoration and management project. The local landowners, county and state agencies, and researchers participating in the partnership expect to prepare a watershed land-use plan in a few years.

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