Greenfield named head of Root-Pike WIN

Susan Greenfield, former chairwoman of Caledonia, is the new head of a local environmental group committed to protecting and storing the Root and Pike rivers in southeastern Wisconsin.

Greenfield is an award-winning environmentalist who served on the Caledonia Town Board for eight years. As chairwoman, she lead Caledonia's adoption of one of the state's first conservation subdivision ordinances.

Greenfield is a Horlick High School graduate with a master's degree from Marquette University.She is married to Jerry Greenfield, Interim Provost at UW-Parkside, and they have three grown children and two grandchildren.

The Root-Pike watershed encompasses parts of Kenosha, Racine, Milwaukee and Waukesha counties, where the organization and volunteers work to protect, restore, and sustain the ecosystem through grant funding of locally initiated projects. Since 2001 the organization has awarded $297,560 in 68 watershed projects. The Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network grew out of a group convened in 1998 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to identify critical natural resource issues in the Root River and Pike River watersheds.