Free and open to the public!
Location: Madeline Island Museum
Cross the moat to discover carnivorous plants, devious orchids, shimmering dragonflies, buried treasure, ripening jewels, and a floating floor. It sounds like fantasy, but it’s all science. Naturalist Emily Stone will give a guided tour of the botany, chemistry, ecology, and mysterious depths of wetlands like those on Madeline Island.
Speaker: Emily Stone, Director, Cable Natural History Museum
Emily Stone is a naturalist by birth, training, profession, and passion. She teaches kids of all ages about nature in beautiful places. She earned a degree in Outdoor Education-Natural History Northland College and a M.S. in the Field Naturalist Program at the University of Vermont. As the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum, Emily writes an award-winning “Natural Connections” column for more than 20 newspapers across 3 states. Her freelance writing has appeared in Northern Wilds Magazine, Lake Superior Magazine, and Silent Sports Magazine. Her second Natural Connections book recently won an Excellence in Craft award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA). Emily is on the Board of Directors of OWAA, and chairs the education committee. She gives workshops, field trips, and lectures, taught WRI 273 Writing the Environmental Essay at Northland College in 2021, and now teaches an annual Natural Connections Writing Workshop.
