Dec
7
10:00 AM10:00

Milwaukee Audubon Society Annual Meeting and HORICON ESCARPMENT EVENT

  • N7725 Wisconsin 28 Horicon, WI, 53032 United States (map)
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Hosted by NERN and Milwaukee Audubon Society

Horicon Marsh Education Center  N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI 53032 -- lower auditorium. 

Milwaukee Audubon Society Annual Meeting

Milwaukee Audubon Society will host its 2024 annual meeting from 10 to noon with an update on MAS program focus areas and a presentation by distinguished speakers Dr. Don Mikulic, Emeritis, Illinois Geologic Survey, representing the Weis Earth Science Museum, and Randy Powers, Senior Botanist and Ecologist for Milwaukee Audubon Society and the Wisconsin Audubon Education program explaining some of the unique characteristics of the Horicon-Headwaters-Divide Unit of the Niagara Escarpment at Milwaukee Audubon Society’s Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Afternoon Walk at Horicon Marsh Site

At noon we break for lunch. Followed by a cuesta walk on that site from 1 to 3 PM, weather and conditions permitting,  reservations requested by contacting the MAS Conservation Chair  j.uhrinak@gmail.com

Space for MAS members is limited as we will be joining NERN (Niagara Escarpment Resource Network) members.

  • Dress appropriately for the cold weather and bring a walking stick if temperatures are below freezing. Feel free to enjoy the Marsh for those who find a 2 hour winter walk challenging.

  • Walk participants should also bring a bag lunch as there may not be enough time to head back to Horicon for lunch.

The following is a map of how to navigate from the Horicon March Center to the location of the start of the hike.

PLEASE NOTE: This is the Wisconsin DNR Center at the south end of the marsh and NOT the National WLR Headquarters.

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - October
Oct
20
4:45 PM16:45
Buffalo Speaks Reserve, Events, Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - October

  • 3921 Point RoadBrownsville, WI, 53006 (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Bring your own drinking water, small energy rich snacks, bug spray and leather gloves. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. Weeding tools and accessories will be provided.

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - September
Sep
22
5:00 PM17:00
Buffalo Speaks Reserve, Events, Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - September

  • 3921 Point RoadBrownsville, WI, 53006 (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Bring your own drinking water, small energy rich snacks, bug spray and leather gloves. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. Weeding tools and accessories will be provided.

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - August
Aug
18
5:30 PM17:30
Buffalo Speaks Reserve, Events, Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - August

  • 3921 Point RoadBrownsville, WI, 53006 (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Bring your own drinking water, small energy rich snacks, bug spray and leather gloves. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. Weeding tools and accessories will be provided.

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - July
Jul
21
5:30 PM17:30
Buffalo Speaks Reserve, Events, Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - July

  • 3921 Point RoadBrownsville, WI, 53006 (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Bring your own drinking water, small energy rich snacks, bug spray and leather gloves. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. Weeding tools and accessories will be provided.

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - June
Jun
23
5:30 PM17:30
Buffalo Speaks Reserve, Events, Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve - June

  • 3921 Point RoadBrownsville, WI, 53006 (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Bring your own drinking water, small energy rich snacks, bug spray and leather gloves. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. Weeding tools and accessories will be provided.

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve
May
19
5:30 PM17:30
Buffalo Speaks Reserve, Events, Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

  • 3921 Point RoadBrownsville, WI, 53006 (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: Area #3 Buffalo Speaks Meadow Restoration Area. PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Bring your own drinking water, small energy rich snacks, bug spray and leather gloves. Remember to dress appropriately for the weather conditions. Weeding tools and accessories will be provided.

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Prescribed Burn at Buffalo Speaks Reserve
Nov
12
11:00 AM11:00
Buffalo Speaks Reserve

Prescribed Burn at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

MAS welcomes any volunteers able to join us for another prescribed burn at the Buffalo Speaks Reserve - Area #1 Kolterman. PDF Map of Buffalo Speaks.

Please email info@milwaukeeaudubon.org so you have 24-hr notice of the burn, the date and timing may change due to weather and other potential conflicts.

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Penokee Mountains Field Trip - CANCELLED for 2020
Sep
30
to Oct 2
Events

Penokee Mountains Field Trip - CANCELLED for 2020

The challenge of gathering safely during this time has lead us to cancel this years trip to the Penokee’s. We hope to return to the Annual Trip in 2021.

For more information on the importance of the Penokee area please watch this presentation given by MAS board member Jim Urhinak from 2013:

The Natural History, Geography and Unique Conditions of the Penokee Hills & Mining Impacts by Jim Uhrinak

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Prescribed Burn at Buffalo Speaks Reserve
Sep
16
10:00 AM10:00
Buffalo Speaks Reserve

Prescribed Burn at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

MAS welcomes any volunteers able to join us for a prescribed burn at the Buffalo Speaks Reserve - Kolterman field site. Volunteers will be assigned to roles that are suitable to the individual. There are opportunities for folks to be on the burn crew, the road patrol, or to be spectators and photographers. No one needs to be closer to the burn than they feel comfortable with, it can be interesting to watch even from a good distance!

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Madison Audubon's: A Swift Night Out Wisconsin
Sep
1
to Sep 30
Volunteering

Madison Audubon's: A Swift Night Out Wisconsin

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Chimney swifts are on the move! Madison Audubon and the Wisconsin Chimney Swift Working Group are partnering up with Wisconsinites for the entire month of September for a statewide, online citizen science event that you can get involved with. "A Swift Night Out Wisconsin" asks community members all over the state to report, track, and observe these native birds descending into their roosting sites each evening this September. No experience is necessary!

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Last Minute Call for Volunteers!
Aug
17
12:00 PM12:00
Volunteering

Last Minute Call for Volunteers!

  • 3921 Point Road Brownsville, WI, 53006 United States (map)
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Now is the time to strike to get rid of the burdock at Buffalo Speaks Reserve!
The eradication of this intrusive invasive will be at the Northern Prairie planting on the wooded edge.

We need YOU, our dedicated volunteers, THIS MONDAY, to help with the burdock removal for the future health and wellness of the Buffalo Speaks Reserve. We hope you can join us, the more us to help the easier the work.

The area should be shaded by noon so you’ll be safe from the sun. Jim will be there with the truck to collect the the bothersome burdock, no lugging weed bags around. If you make it to the end of the removal you may be treated to a burdock bonfire!

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve
Aug
13
6:30 PM18:30
Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

  • 3921 Point Rd Brownsville, WI, 53006 United States (map)
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Join MAS to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve: Prairie Site

RSVP to Randy via email pfsco@wi.rr.com to attend.

As you enter the drive look for red flagging on the lawn to the left of the drive, these will guide you to the planting area in the back where the cars can park next to the planting. 

If you find yourself a little lost please contact Randy on his cell phone to guide you to the site: 715 820-2721.

Bring your own drinking water and bug spray.

Randy also provides an educational component to the evening the directly relates to the work being done at the site. Often he features photos from the previous weed-outs including, photo plates of wildlife, bugs and plants that are unusual or have significance to MAS’s projects.

We hope you can join us!

If you can't labor, bring a folding chair and visit! Any support is welcome.

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Volunteer to Help Regrade Kolterman Field
Aug
6
9:30 AM09:30
Volunteering

Volunteer to Help Regrade Kolterman Field

MAS needs your help for the regrading project at Kolterman Field. Google Maps Link to Location

Our farmer, Scott Franke, will use his backhoe to begin decommissioning agricultural drain tile and pull up the lower terrace soil. There will be work picking up pieces of tile and throwing them into a wagon.

We will also need grading spotters to keep an eye out for Indian artifacts on the surface of any spread of soil. By mid-day we expect to begin digging the lower terrace. We will need more spotters by then and would be grateful for your help.

Please feel free to drop in at whatever time you can from 9:30A - 5:00P. Any help or time you can give is greatly appreciated!

If you are unable to work, or are simply out to take pictures, a lawn chair makes sense to be comfortable. You could be lucky enough to spot one of the neighborhood whoopers.

Bring plenty of drinking water and a hard garden rake, if you have one available to help with tile removal .

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Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve
Jul
9
6:00 PM18:00
Volunteering

Weeding Volunteer Day at Buffalo Speaks Reserve

Join us to help weed at Buffalo Speaks Reserve.

Contact Randy at 715 820-2721 to attend. He will provide you with details on how to access the site.

If you can't labor, bring a folding chair and visit with Martha. She is planning to bring some wrapped snacks. Your presence is appreciated!

Bring your own drinking water and bug spray.

Watch for whooping cranes west of the Kolterman field and pink flagging along North Point Road.

We look forward to seeing you!

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Apr
18
to Apr 19

Cougar Ecology & Verification Course

A 15-hour certification course by Dr. Jim Halfpenny of the Track Education Center.

Click here for more information including registration, map and to download a PDF!

Confirmed mountain lion sightings and signs within Milwaukee Audubon’s membership territory of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha, and Dodge Counties since 2016, and our last workshop, make this indoor tracking workshop for several predator species very timely.

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BONUS PROGRAM

Wolverine: Fact & Fiction

When: Friday evening, April 17th at 7 PM. Free to cougar workshop registrants; $5 for non-registrant visitors.

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Mar
14
6:30 AM06:30

Buffalo Speaks Volunteer Opportunity Saturday, March 14th, 6:30AM

After perfect conditions on Saturday March 7, the following morning Nick Dobbert reported that we lost our frozen-ground window to complete compost pot delivery to our spring savanna planting area. We still have 80 pots to move.

Predictions are that we now have four days of thawing. Then, there is a short cool-down period with a predicted low of 24 on Friday night.

If this forecast holds, Mark Olsen and I intend to be at Kolterman with our plastic sleds at 6:30 AM Saturday morning March 14th and would welcome any help. If we have a frozen or crusty ground surface, it will not last long. I’d be surprised if it holds up for more than three hours.

I can assure you that sledding the pots over frozen soil and leaves will be far preferable to hand carrying fifty-pound pots through sloppy mud. Also, the freeze down will help hold the compost in the pots. Otherwise it spills out like water. If you are hale and heroic, that morning’s effort will be well spent.

Changes in the weather forecast may revise our schedule.
Call Jim for the latest plan at 414-791-0869.

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