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2009
November 18
August 7
August 5
Outdoor fireplace at Frautschi Point restored
Repairs to the old fireplace at Frautschi Point have been completed. This restoration was made possible by a generous gift from the Walter A. and Dorothy Jones Frautschi Trust. Learn more about this old fireplace and the nearby duck blind. (8/5)
July 14
New geocache policy
Geocaching is the outdoor sport of locating hidden treasures (caches) with the use of a GPS unit to navigate. We now require a permit application prior to placement of caches within the Preserve. Read the policy... (7/14)
July 9
UW Cultural Landscape video broadcast
For more than 12,000 years, American Indians have had a profound relationship with the lands that now form the UW-Madison campus. A new video, "UW Madison Cultural Landscape: First Nations," explores this history from ancient mound builders to present day students, staff and faculty. The video includes several scenes of the Preserve.
Broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television:
July 9 (Thurs) 7 PM
July 10 (Fri) noon
July 13 (Mon) 6 AM
June 9
Improvements to the tip of Picnic Point
On June 9, 2009 a public meeting was held to introduce the preliminary designs for improvements to the end of Picnic Point. Learn more about this planning process.
April 21
Spring 2009 Preserve E-Newsletter
February 5
It’s wonderful having such good Friends!
The Preserve recently received gifts totaling more than $16,000 from the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve. The donation includes funds to help cover the costs of native plants, tools and invasive plant control. The gift also includes sponsorship of Audubon interns--a program that provides a team of undergraduates who work at the Preserve one day per week (and other sites the other four) during our summer field season. View the Friends website for more information on how you can get involved. Thank you, Friends!
January 30
NEW Preserve on-line "Discussion List"
Its easy to join the conversation about issues, activities, and opportunities in the Preserve. Check the FAQ for subscription instructions.
2008
November 10
Campus cultural landscapes and Native American effigy mounds featured in Wisconsin Week article.
July 7
The Preserve formally accepted a new SUV (Solar Utility Vehicle) from BP America (Beyond Petroleum) today at a gathering at Picnic Point today. The vehicle will be used to move staff and equipment around the Preserve--quietly and with a minimal environmental impact. Thank you BP, for the generous gift! Article...
May 22
Early this morning portions of the Preserve, main campus and the Arboretum were sprayed with the pesticide Btk to combat gypsy moth caterpillars. Field monitors, from the UW grounds crew, assisted with the coordination of the low-flying plane that applied the pesticide. We will continue to monitor for infestations of this arboreal invader. Article.
May 2
January 9
Willow Creek Woods vegetation management
Work begins on removal of invasive shrubs and early successional trees that have become established in the understory beneath the dominant white and bur oaks at this half-acre site north of the Natatorium. Seeding with grasses and native plants will occur in the spring. A project summary of the initial phase provides more details.
2007
June 29
Summer 2007 Preserve E-newsletter
June 29
Garlic Mustard season over: Field Manager Cathie Bruner says: "The Lakeshore Nature Preserve garlic mustard pulling season ended on June 29 when Preserve stewards reported that the seeds had reached the shatter stage. We welcome hearing from you if you wish to be included in the fall garlic mustard mapping and management efforts."
June 14
Paddle To Work Day: Take a Stake in the Lake
Paddle to campus and store your boat for the day at Willow Beach in the Preserve. Learn more about this fun way to get to work!
April 25
Preserve website wins international 2007
award from Association of American Geographers
The Lakeshore Nature Preserve website has been awarded "2007 Best
Web Site" by
PlacesOnLine.org and the Assocation of American
Geographers, an international
professional organization for geographers.
Read UW news story >
PlacesOnLine.org is
a collection of quality Web sites that analyze or describe places. "We
believe that your site is an outstanding example of sites that meet our criteria
for inclusion," wrote co-editor Curtis Roseman, which include
original quality content, focus on a specific place, a user-friendly
format, and providing the user a place-based exeperience with an emphasis
on photographs and maps.
April 10
Garlic Mustard Work Parties Spring 2007
Help restore the Preserve by pulling the invasive garlic
mustard plant. We supply all the tools (you may want to
bring gloves). Check
out the schedule
for the next work party in this flyer...
For the latest information on
weather cancellations and schedules: call Cathie Bruner at 265-9275 (recording).
 Learn more about stewardship opportunities in the Preserve.
March 12
Preserve map wins state award
Read
full story The Lakeshore Nature Preserve interactive map
won a first place award for Best Animated
Map from the Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA). Rob Roth
shared this honor with other students and faculty on the Lakeshore
Map design team: Mark Harrower (faculty), Joel Przybylowski, Andy Woodruff,
and Melanie McCalmont.
March 7
Online lakeshore map wins national award
Read
full story "An online, interactive Web site that helps decipher
the Lakeshore Nature Preserve has won an award that puts the University
of Wisconsin-Madison student-driven project at the forefront of map
design in the United States. The award, for "Best Interactive Digital
Map" in the professional
category in the 2006 American Congress for Survey and Mapping's Cartography
and Geographical Information Systems Map Design Competition, was awarded
to the UW-Madison
Cartography Lab ."
2006
November 19
This website has just been launched, so the
quick answer to this question is—everything is
new. But
please do check out these especially cool new features….
Interested in finding out basic facts about the Preserve? Check
out our new Quick Facts section.
Check out the slide show on our new home page! You can CLICK ON A PICTURE to see more about that place or activity. Try it!
Learn about Phenology—the easy and fascinating science of seasonal change that anyone can practice.
Learn how a group of prominent Madisonians in the 1890s laid out a remarkable series of carriage roads and “pleasure drives” that today form the spine of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.
Sign up for the Preserve's new email newsletter and let us keep you posted about what's going on!
Trace the history of the Preserve through our new on-line library of benchmark documents.
Learn about our commitment to stewardship.
Try out our new tool for making on-line contributions to the Preserve Stewardship Fund!
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