It’s difficult now in the wintry landscape to fully take in the project that earned Linda Evans of rural Princeton the title of Outstanding Conservationist of the Year for 2009.

Right now a person can’t see the sedge grasses, elderberry bushes, bloodroot, anemones and other plants like you would in the spring or summer on the 40 acres that Evans shares with husband Mike Floerchinger and their two dogs, in rural Princeton. See more in Joel Stottrup's Princeton Union-Eagle story.

Linda Evans stands at her residence in Bogus Brook Township in rural Princeton last week with the partially frozen Rum River flowing behind her.