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Pictures! Another fun and informative evening with Titus Seilheimer, PhD Fisheries Specialist, Wisconsin Sea Grant. Attendees learned how Lake Trout, Whitefish and other species got to Lake Superior in the first place, how and why species and populations have changed over time, and what’s been happening lately.
Read MorePictures! Julia Noordyk, of University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, gave a very informative presentation to a full house at last Wednesday night’s lecture. Here are pictures with some of Julia’s slides to show how great it was! And of course there was a beautiful sunset at the end of the evening.
Read MorePictures! Bob Mackreth, Apostle Islands Historian shared some very entertaining and enlightening stories about how Prohibition played out on the south shore of Lake Superior at our latest Wednesday evening lecture.
Read MorePictures! We had another great turnout for our latest Wednesday Evening Lecture: Reading the Water: A Lake Superior Literary Sampler, with Dr. Alan Brew, Executive Director, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute & Professor of English, Northland College.
Read MorePictures! Life On the Soggy Edges: Two Ecologists Describe the Importance and Vulnerability of the Apostle Islands’ Coastal Wetlands.
Read MoreMadeline Island Wilderness Preserve was proud to present a speaker of his caliber and knowledge of Lake Superior ecology — he was simply outstanding!
Read MoreWe had a another full house for a Wednesday lecture at Madeline Island Museum with Carol Christenson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service!
Read MoreMadeline Island Wilderness Preserve members enjoyed a gathering at the home of Pixie Martin and Jay Erstling to welcome Melanie McManus before her talk at Madeline Island Museum on Saturday, August 19th. Thanks Pixie and Jay! Great fun!
Read MoreThe hike, held the morning of August 25, was a followup to John Bate's August 24 Wednesday Evening Lecture: The Phenology of Mammals, Birds and other Creatures of the North Country.
Read MoreOur Wednesday evening lectures at the Madeline Island Museum are always well-attended. Last night this was especially true as Tom Fitz, Associate Professor of Geoscience at Northland College, spoke to a record-breaking crowd about Geologic Time in the Islands!
Read MoreThe Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve is a non-profit land trust dedicated to the protection and preservation of natural areas on Madeline Island. The nature preserve lands are open to the public for hiking, skiing, berry-picking and hunting. MIWP is committed to education and advocacy — each summer we sponsor field trips and evening programs. Madeline Island is adjacent to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on the South Shore of Lake Superior in Wisconsin.
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