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.

Click to view images of her slideshow…

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.

Erica LeMoine’s lecture about Loons and Loon Watch fascinated kids as well as adults. The faces of the children responding to presentation slides and facts were a joy to behold!

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…

Marina’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.