The electronic newsletter is published three times a year. It details news about the Lakeshore Nature Preserve including research projects, educational uses, land stewardship and restoration efforts, and fundraising successes. It also provides a place to feature the names of our volunteers once a year in recognition for their contributions to the Preserve. To subscribe please send an email to lakeshorepreserve@fpm.wisc.edu with “subscribe newsletter” in the subject line.
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September 2024 E-Newsletter | Brad Herrick new director, Frautschi Center update, land management update, campus sustainability, biodiversity assessment, fall field trips, Preserve closing hours |
July 2024 E-Newsletter | Storm damage, meet the Preserve interns, Student Engagement Grant awardees, Picnic Point bat house, no swimming in Preserve |
May 2024 E-Newsletter | Prescribed fire class, Landscape Architecture 581, student volunteers, interns, spongy moth, fields trips, Madison Water Utility Well 19, Be a Preserve Partner |
March 2024 E-Newsletter | Frautschi Center and Frautschi Center Fund for the Future, 175th Anniversary Community Open House and Science Expeditions, celebrating Preserve volunteers and donors, debris disposal, Student Engagement Grants, Nurturing in Nature series, Multicultural Student Center, Summer Community Science series, Insect Ambassadors, seeking director, safety, Day of the Badger, Friends of the Preserve annual meeting with guest speaker Dr Jessica Hua |
February 2024 E-Newsletter | Picnic Point firewood racks, student engagement grants, land management notes, 2023 Summary of Birding (eBird) Activity, seed collection bags |
Fall 2023 E-Newsletter | student engagement grants, tree swallows, Audubon Society at UW-Madison, bumble bee foraging, pollination, Preserve as a place of respite and well-being, poetry audio trail, Prairie Partners interns, land management notes |
Spring Summer 2023 E-Newsletter |
master plan, outreach center, recognizing volunteers and donors, dormant season land management, Natural Area Assistants, human-coyote interactions, Wisconsin Master Naturalist training, self-guided campus walking tour, Student Engagement Grants, Friends field trips, Insect Ambassadors, Insect Community Series |
Fall 2022 E-Newsletter | annual appeal, Our Shared Future: Ho-Chunk blessing, master plan update, outreach center planning, Student Engagement Grants, Hoofers Ambassadors, drone policy, Connor Kotte, Emily Jorgensen, Earth Partnership FIG, Fill the Hill results, planning for change, Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee |
2022 Summer E-Newsletter | Master plan update, outreach center planning, meet the students working in the Preserve, Student Engagement Grant awards, Central Bill’s Woods management spotlight, ticks and Lyme Disease, soil conservation structure, bluebird trail, Heidi Dvinge memorial bench, storm damage, water safety, Day of the Badger thank you |
Spring 2022 E-Newsletter | volunteers and donors make it possible, master plan update, insect pests, emerald ash borer, spongy moth, bat monitoring, land management, burial mounds, seeds, birds, birding, field trips, volunteering, Friends annual meeting, fire circles, Preserve hours, Day of the Badger |
2022 Winter E-Newsletter | teaching and research, student engagement grant projects, actinobacteria and honey bees, storm water and green infrastructure, F.H. King composting, wild and domestic canids, beginning birdwatching with Audubon at UW-Madison, fungi brochure, Master Naturalist training, dog walking on leash, volunteering |
2021 Summer E-Newsletter | Preserve staff teamwork award, Master Plan update, prescribed fire, student team members, Prairie Partners interns, Preserve Committee members recognized, Tom Brock, Stephen Sentoff, Purple Martins, Hasler Limnology Garden, volunteering, field trips, Day of the Badger results |
2021 Spring E-Newsletter | volunteers step up for scaled back program, tree removals, Day of the Badger, volunteer photo essay by Ginny Jackson, volunteer profile: Roma Lenehan, Arlene Koziol photos, visitor counter, turkeys, Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve annual meeting, Science Expeditions, undergraduate research grant awardees, Emerald Ash Borer |
2020 Fall E-Newsletter | student engagement grants, F.H. King bee hive, land management project updates, Impatiens (jewelweed) research, new bench honors ancestors, when to call UWPD, explore the Audio Trail, Stakeholder Meeting, Fill the Hill fundraising results |
2020 Summer E-Newsletter | garlic mustard volunteers, Suzy Will-Wolf, Friends of the Preserve citizen science projects, purple martins, bluebirds, UWPD activity in Preserve, National Atmospheric Deposition Program precipitation monitoring, bird observations, seasonal staff, Michal Michiels |
2020 Spring E-Newsletter | volunteers and donors make the difference, way-finding in natural areas, oak woodland restoration, Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory |
2019 Fall E-Newsletter | Badger Volunteers, oak tree management, bat research, UW Lot 130, seasonal staff, Hoofers Ambassadors, fire circles, field trips, volunteer events, children’s book supports wetland appreciation and conservation |
2019 Summer E-Newsletter | Snapshot Wisconsin, AmeriCorps NCCC, student engagement grant project, forming connections using sweet potatoes, Prairie Partners interns, field trips, volunteer events, seasonal staff, tracking tree growth, changes to lots 129 and 130, volunteers explore poetry of Mary Oliver |
2019 Spring E-Newsletter | appreciation for donors and volunteers, strategic planning process, on letting nature takes its course, UWPD liaison officer, bat monitoring, student engagement grant awards, Eagle Heights Woods, volunteer stewards, field trips, changes to lots 129 and 130 |
2018 Fall E-Newsletter | jumping worms, fungi, Picnic Point homecoming celebration, Badger Volunteers, prescribed fire, President’s Oak, witness trees, field trips, volunteer stewards, iNaturalist, canids, Instagram |
2018 Summer E-Newsletter | student journaling, 2018 student engagement grants, Prairie Partners interns, Muir Knoll dedication centennial, field trips, seasonal staff, Friends of the Preserve, spring planting, Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge outing, remembrance tree, west campus stormwater project, blue-green algae |
2018 Spring E-Newsletter | recognizing donors and volunteers, prescribed burns, Biocore birthday party, Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory, Friends of the Preserve, vegetation survey, Wally Bauman Woods, Groundswell Conservancy, volunteer spotlight, Raymer’s Cove sign |
2017 Fall E-Newsletter | Ecology 460, bats, white-nose syndrome, bench, gifts to the Preserve, volunteer spotlight, on-going volunteers, Friends of the Preserve, citizen science, field trips, Eagle Heights Woods, Quercus species, Willow Creek Woods, seasonal staff |
2017 Summer E-Newsletter | legacy giving, Biocore Prairie Bird Observatory, field trips, volunteer spotlight, on-going volunteers, AmeriCorps NCCC Crew, Prairie Partners interns, Eagle Heights Woods, Willow Creek Woods, jumping worms, student engagement grants, seasonal staff |
2017 Spring E-Newsletter | recognizing our donors and volunteers, Eagle Heights Woods, volunteer greeters needed, student engagement grant study, volunteer spotlight, field trips, fig buttercup |
2016 Fall E-Newsletter | Picnic Point kiosk, Eagle Heights Woods update, MBAs with a heart, student engagement grant, on-going volunteers, field trips, leaf-cutter ants, Students for the Preserve, volunteer opportunities, Biocore Prairie, Naval ROTC, Ecology 460, monarch butterfly conservation studies |
2016 Summer E-Newsletter | invasive plant monitoring and control program, Eagle Heights Woods update, student engagement grants, Arbor Day observance, Prairie Partners Interns, slackline/hammock/rope swing policy, Friends of the Preserve, volunteer opportunities, narrow-leaf bittercress, reserve fire circles online, Preserve Committee |
2016 Spring E-Newsletter | volunteers support Preserve, Four Lakes Wildlife Center, mound complex on National Register of Historic Places, F.H. King beehives, Officer Van Den Bogart, Eagle Heights Woods update, gifts support Preserve, new volunteer initiative, prescribed fire, field trips, volunteer opportunities |
2015 Fall E-Newsletter | Students for the Preserve, UW Urban Canid Project, Eagle Heights Woods update, new Picnic Point entrance, Mara McDonald, Pollinator Project, student engagement grants, gifts support Preserve, 4th Sunday walks, campus master plan update, volunteer opportunities |
2015 Summer E-Newsletter | Preserve a-buzz with research, Prairie Partners interns, phenology, annual giving, field trips, dogs on leash, Eagle Heights Woods update, bluebird trail, volunteer opportunities |
2015 Spring E-Newsletter | thank you volunteers, dogs on leash, spring burns planned, Friends fund Eagle Heights Woods project, in memory, west campus stormwater project, canid research, Preserve permits, 2014 volunteers |
2014 Fall E-Newsletter | Biocore Prairie, Laura Wyatt, time for thanksgiving, Quentin Carpenter, undergrad research, Students for the Preserve, Eagle Heights Gardens applications, Preserve Committee |
2014 Summer E-Newsletter | Prairie Partners interns, student engagement grants, Cathie Bruner, breeding bird survey, bird and nature walks, Students for the Preserve, 5 questions with a volunteer, west campus stormwater project update, turtles, Friends of the Preserve |
2014 Spring E-Newsletter | fox and coyote research, student engagement grants, thank you volunteers, saving butternut trees, breeding bird survey, 5 questions with a volunteer, Eagle Heights Woods |
2013 Fall E-Newsletter | Society for Ecological Restoration volunteers, Preserve as outdoor lab, autumn leaf color, Calvatia gigantea, west campus stormwater project update, Party on the Path |
2013 Summer E-Newsletter | summer students in the Preserve, Prairie Partners interns, 2013 project updates, new invader–Japanese hedgeparsley, growing season prescribed burns, dogs in the Preserve |
2013 Spring E-Newsletter | thanks 2012 volunteers, planting vs seeding, 2013 project preview, academics in the Preserve, culinary control of garlic mustard |
2012 Fall E-Newsletter | autumnal fire, First-Year Interest Group, Wally Bauman Woods, Emerald ash borer, stormwater, volunteers, biomass, new trailhead signs |
2012 Summer E-Newsletter | interns, audio trail, new planting, new fire circle reservation system, ticks, research, tractor, project updates, volunteers, staff changes |
2012 Spring E-Newsletter | 2012 Garlic Mustard Challenge!, bumblebee ecology, burn season, invasives, Picnic Point improvement |
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