North End Trails Hike led by Ned Hancock
/Ned Hancock, MIWP board member, led another great hike on Saturday, September 17th!
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Ned Hancock, MIWP board member, led another great hike on Saturday, September 17th!
Read MoreSaturday, September 3rd was a beautiful day for a hike on the North End Trails! We had a great turnout, and there was lots to see, especially the mushrooms!
Read MoreOn a recent hike on the North East Trail, MIWP board member Bonnie Matuseski encountered and photographed an amazing variety of mushrooms. The Preserve is full of wonderful surprises year round!
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 hike, held the morning of July 14, was a followup to John's July 13 Wednesday Evening Lecture: Timing Is Everything, the Phenology of Plants.
Don't miss John's next Lecture/Hike on August 24/25: The Phenology of Mammals, Birds and Other Creatures of the North Country!
Read MoreFor 2016, the MIWP took on the poignant saga of the decline of the Monarch butterfly, and did it in style, as usual!
Read MoreJeff Richter, an award-winning nationally-published nature photographer, speaks to an attentive crowd at the Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve 2016 Annual Meeting held at Madeline Island Museum on May 28th. Jeff's subject was "Love Letter to Lake Superior".
Read MoreThere were twenty-seven people on the September 19 hike on the North End Trail. There were people from the Bayfield Regional Conservancy, as well as MIWP members, family and friends. It was a beautiful day and lots of fun!
Read MoreOn August 19 Erik Olson, Assistant Professor of Natural Resources at Northland College, in his lecture Tug of War Over Wolves, spoke to a packed room about his research concerning the effects of the constantly-changing status of wolves as an endangered species.
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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