Brian Heeringa spoke to an engaged audience. A special hit was a close up introduction to Echo the bat! View pictures of the event and Brian’s slideshow…

Everyone enjoyed the presentation and learned some things they didn’t know about bears. Jane Weber’s talks are always informative and a lot of fun!

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Dr. Tom Fitz as always was delightfully informative at this Wednesday evening lecture at the museum sponsored by MIWP!

Click here to download/print the study article: Factors influencing the evolution of sandstone sea caves: A case study from the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (Lake Superior, USA).

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Our Wednesday Evening Lecture at the Museum — Coastal Dynamics of Madeline Island — was very well attended and very informative! Click Read More to see pictures of some of the slides from the presentation...

We followed Florantha from a New England childhood, to early La Pointe missionary’s wife, around Cape Horn to gold rush California and the peaks of the Sierra Nevada., to Italy, etc. etc… We learned about the adventures of her children, and several other notorious and/or talented descendants, including a Nobel Prize winner! Another great Mackreth presentation! Click Read More to see pictures and short video clips for a taste of the fun!

What a fun presentation! We learned a lot about foxes, coyotes and wolves from the delightful Jane Weber!
Photo: Holding up cutouts to show relative sizes of fox, coyote and wolf.

Click image to view lecture slides. Speaker: Bob Boucher, advisor to the Beaver Institute and board member of Superior Bio-conservancy. If you are interested in learning more, you might want to sign up for the Virtual Midwest Beaver Summit 2023, presented by the Superior Bio-Conservancy. Also, after learning more you may want to contact the Wisconsin DNR and Wisconsin governor Tony Evers about the WDNR’s harmful practices regarding Beavers.

Attendees at this evening lecture at the museum learned some very interesting facts about the dangers to Chequamegon Bay birds, and how we can help. Click image to see lecture slides…

Samantha Dobson, our island mushroom expert covered mushrooms found on Madeline Island, and talked about how to use them.

Plan to join Samantha on a mushroom walk on the north trails on Saturday, September 9th at 10am. Meet at the Schoolhouse Road Trailhead parking lot.

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Bob Mackreth, Apostle Islands Historian, entertained his audience with delightful and sometimes surprising stories about the women who lived at the lighthouses of the Apostle Islands.