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Lots of beautiful images and discussion of humans’ ongoing fascination with the stars — and important, useful information about the International Dark Sky Movement. If you missed it, you can still stream the documentary on PBS. Click image to view photos…
Read MoreMarina’s talk was fabulous and inspiring! Now to choose seven plants: if every person learned seven plants, their life cycles and stories, their uses and medicine, then the knowledge of their gifts to us would be retained in the world.
Read MoreA very informative evening! Here are some slides of the lecture, and an information resource handout. Contact Bonnie Matuseski on the island for additional resource handouts from Adam Bechle and Wisconsin Sea Grant. Click to see photos and video…
Read MoreWhat an interesting and fun presentation on August 17th! We all learned something new and were invited to see the estuaries joined to the lake, and the lake itself, in very different ways!
Read MoreWe were pleased to have our own island Dr. Margie Fredrickson join Benjamin Clarke, PHD, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus on August 10th to share information about ticks and the diseases they can cause.
Read MoreWe had a great turnout for Peter Annin’s Wednesday Evening Lecture at the Museum! Peter talked about water issues around the world as well as those relevant to our area. Watch for his next book, which will view water issues from a different perspective.
Read MorePeggy Burkman and Neil Howk shared up to date information about birds of the Apostle Islands. Click Read More to see pictures.
Read MorePictures of Tavis Lynch presentation and a mushroom foraging and ID hike on the Capser and Nucy Meech Trails in the Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve.
Read MorePictures! Great discussion at August 21st Evening Lecture with Dr. Tom Fitz, Professor of Geosciences at Northland College: “Facing the Challenges of Mining, Resource Supply and Environmental Stewardship in a Changing World”.
Read MorePictures! 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 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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