By Jane Fyksen
Since the mid-1990s, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students in the College of Natural Resources have attended pasture walks as part of their required summer-school program at Treehaven. Treehaven is a natural-resources education, conference and research center between Tomahawk and Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Students from Treehaven visited Twin Creeks Cattle Company Aug. 12; the company is a managed-grazing beef farm operated by Tom and Linda Daigle and their son, Ben Daigle.
Tom Daigle’s brother, Paul Daigle, is director of the Land and Water Program of the Marathon County Conservation, Planning and Zoning Department in Wausau, Wisconsin. Paul Daigle is one of Wisconsin’s leading technical advisors in managed grazing and a long-time advocate of the practice. The brothers teamed up to lead the pasture walk at Twin Creeks Cattle Company, which is east of Tomahawk.
“By my estimate, over 4,000 natural-resources students have been introduced to conservation on the farm, and the use of managed grazing as a tool to have profitable farmers, while protecting and enhancing soil health and improving water quality,” Paul Daigle said of the pasture walks for UW-Stevens Point students attending the Treehaven program during the summer.
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