
Friends of Lizard Mound Park and Milwaukee Audubon Society - Spring Oak Day
Join Us for an Oak Seedling Hunt at Lizard Mound Park!
📍 Meeting Point: Lizard Mound Park parking lot
📅 Date: This Saturday
🚶 Activity: A short, easy walk through the park
This event is a simple yet meaningful effort to support savanna restoration at Lizard Mound Park. We’ll be on foot, searching for around two dozen white-oak-type seedlings hiding in the park’s savanna restoration grasses. No prior tree identification skills are needed—we’ll work together to spot and flag these young oaks with a ribbon for an important follow-up field event in April.
In April, with the guidance of Kettle Moraine State Foresters, we’ll install tree protectors around the flagged seedlings. These young oaks carry invaluable site-genetic information and have the potential to grow into the next generation of open-grown savanna trees.
🌿 Why Join?
This is the perfect season to enjoy the park and Milwaukee Audubon Society’s adjacent Bear’s Head Springs mound site before plant green-up.
Learn about the significance of anthropogenic savanna as habitat gardens on ceremonial sites.
Deepen your understanding of oak species and why site genetics within the larger Lizard Mound Site hold important information relating to understanding the cultural landscape.
Enjoy a rewarding, hands-on conservation experience—bring a friend and be part of something special!
Everyone is welcome, and no special knowledge or equipment is needed. Just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm. See you there!
Terri and Bill Yoho,
Friends of Lizard Mound Park
and
Jim Uhrinak, Martha Bergland, and Randy Powers,
Milwaukee Audubon Conservation Committee