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Dear Wildwoods Friends and Family,
2025 seems like a long time ago already! We admitted 1,295 animals representing 128 species and provided support to 2,245 people. The Winter 2024-2025 owl irruption brought in a record number of Boreal Owls (11) and Great Gray Owls (20) to Wildwoods. An extended baby season, which is becoming the norm in the wildlife rehabilitation field, resulted in an increase in orphaned admits.
2025 will hold a special place in our hearts for years to come. Our Wildwoods’ community of supporters grew in numbers that we weren’t expecting, our foundation support doubled, and we raised more funds for this work than we ever have.
In the midst of this, our founders, Peggy Naylor and Farzad Farr, generously donated the land on which we sit to Wildwoods. There is no greater testament to the work we have done than to have their trust in us. This gift will help to ensure that animals in need will have a place to go for years to come.
Other highlights in the past year include:
- We installed point-to-point technology, giving us internet access in our nursery, thereby allowing us to add wi-fi cameras to our enclosures. These cameras help us to monitor animals’ progress outside of human presence.
- We remodeled our lab area and are engaged in a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza surveillance project with the Minnesota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
- We installed high-grade air exchangers in our clinic and quarantine rooms to improve air quality, and installed climate control in our nursery!
I’ve already mentioned that an extended baby season is quickly becoming the norm, and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is unfortunately also becoming the norm for us. These past several years have shown us that with consistency, dedication, and the faith of our community, we can adjust to these new norms and still move forward in our work. On page 3, you can see some of what we are working on this year!
We can’t do this without you. We have more than 40 volunteers who donated thousands of hours last year to transport sick animals to the Twin Cities, pick up animals trying to hitch a ride to us, care for and feed hungry babies, help us to improve our outdoor enclosures, take down our dead trees that endanger our buildings, build nest boxes for our squirrels, and answer my questions about electricity and plumbing and holding tanks and, and, and… Well, you get the picture. We can’t do this alone!
Please look at our financials in this report to see just how you fit in. Individual donors are responsible for 69 percent of our revenue. Each dollar that you put into an envelope, leave in our mailbox, or donate online makes up a portion of that 69 percent. Your dollars, words of encouragement, volunteer hours, care for the animals, and spreading the word on how to share space with nature and her wildlife are inextricably linked to our successes here at Wildwoods. Thank you for being a part of this journey!
Please support us in our efforts so that we can continue to be here for you, and for the animals that enrich our lives.
Kind regards,
Jessica LaBubard
Executive Director
Read our full Annual Report here.