Lakeshore Nature Preserve – Division of Facilities Planning & Management – UW–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

During a winter morning on Jan. 23, 2015, from left, graduate student Marcus Mueller prepares a radio collar as Michael Maroney, a veterinarian with the Research Animal Resources Center, monitors a sedated-fox caught on campus near the Lakeshore Nature Preserve at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of a research effort to study the behavior of growing fox and coyote populations in the city of Madison.

Proposals for Student Engagement Grants (up to $1000 for undergraduate teaching and research) are due March 1, 2018.

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White tundra swans flying over University Bay Drive with Picnic Point in background.

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve is a Wisconsin Important Bird Area.

Get a bird checklist for the Preserve.

A large group of volunteers pose for a photo holding rakes and other tools.

Over 600 volunteers helped support the mission of the Preserve in 2017.

See how you can get involved.

A dusting of snow covers the trees as a man walks by a stone wall entrance to Picnic Point.

The diversity of rock specimens in the stone wall at Picnic Point makes it an ideal teaching aid for geology students.

Check out the new Key to the Glacial Erratics.

Dark straight-trunked trees stand out in snowy landscape.

Prescribed fire crew burning Biocore Prairie.

Prescribed fire improves wildlife habitat and provides valuable training and research opportunities.
Photo by Lina Ekholm.

A sparrow sits on a Compass Plant stalk.

Over 255 bird species have been observed in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve.

Woodland meets prairie with both in fall colors of red, orange, and yellow.

Oak, hickory, poplar, and sumac color the Preserve's Second Point Woods.

Four students taking measurements in Biocore Prairie.

Biocore Prairie is a teaching and research field site for two Biocore lab courses.

Pedestrians ride their bicycles and walk on a colorful tree-lined path at the Howard Temin Lakeshore Path during fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Nov. 4, 2016.

The Howard Temin Lakeshore Path is popular with runners, bikers, and walkers.
Photo by Bryce Richter/UW-Madison.

News

Biocore Prairie 20th Birthday Celebration
May 14, 2018 from 3:00–5:00 p.m. at the Biocore Prairie. Along with the Biocore program’s 50th anniversary, the Biocore Prairie turns 20 this year! Come out to the Biocore Prairie to see how it has …
April 19, 2018
Spring Is Prescribed Fire Season
The spring prescribed fire season is getting underway at the UW–Madison Arboretum and Lakeshore Nature Preserve. Both manage many acres of remnant and restored prairies, oak savannas, and woodlands—native Wisconsin ecosystems that are fire dependent. …
March 23, 2018
Spring 2018 Newsletter
Read the latest about the Preserve in the Spring 2018 Lakeshore Nature Preserve E-Newsletter. Our spring issue is dedicated to the donors and volunteers who give their time and resources to support the Preserve–the name …
March 19, 2018
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