The growing season is an exercise in controlled chaos. There is too much to do and so much to learn, and decisions must be made about where to put effort when it’s all happening everywhere …
Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Bird-Safe Glass Partnerships Take Flight
There’s a certain magic to Madison in May. Campus exhales, nature shows off, and for a few weeks, the whole city seems to shift. It’s graduation season, and peak spring migration. And while the spotlight …
A Decade of Stewardship: Laura Wyatt’s Legacy in the Lakeshore Nature Preserve
This article, by Yara Al-Rayyan, was originally published in the Friends of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve newsletter. After a decade of dedicated service, Laura Wyatt, Interim Director of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, is retiring. I …
Lakeshore Nature Preserve welcomes new director
Brad Herrick, who has been selected as the new director of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, wants to change perceptions about the Preserve. Herrick, who will begin his new role in October, most recently served as …
UW–Madison Recertified by Bee Campus USA
A look into the “amazing,” “exciting,” and “hopeful” cross-campus collaboration leading to Bee Campus
Igniting Fire Culture on Campus
The hottest course on campus, Landscape Architecture 581: Prescribed Fire Ecology & Implementation, has wrapped up its sixth year as a spring semester offering. Led by Jeb Barzen and a cadre of supporting organizations and …
UW 175 concludes with interactive, informative sustainability events at the Community Open House
Biking and walking tours, hands-on experiments, interactive activities at the Lakeshore Preserve and Arboretum, a First Nations history walking tour, and more programs headline sustainability events at this April’s Community Open House.
New Sustainable Visitor and Education Center to Transform Picnic Point, Lakeshore Nature Preserve
Land Acknowledgements and Environmental Access: Recapping the Social Sustainability Coalition’s fall events
The Social Sustainability Coalition (SSC), composed of interns within the Office of Sustainability, saw a successful fall semester, hosting both the “Perspectives on Indigenous Land Acknowledgements” panel discussion and the “Access to the Environment” informational …
Tending to the heart of campus
A deeper look into the staff who manage the 300-acre Lakeshore Nature Preserve—and the history and future of the Preserve. In May of 2023, UW–Madison published the final draft of a Master Plan for the …