Alex from Boy Scout Troop 1 in Appleton and his crew constructed a wonderful observation mound on the WILD Center grounds. Thank you Alex! Continue reading "Newest Additon at the WILD Center"

Join volunteers of “A Day with Eagles Along the Fox River” on November 14th, 2015. The list of viewing spots are: For more information, call the WILD Center at (920) 730-3986 Continue reading "A Day with Eagles Along the Fox River"

Registration is now open for Field Station Natural History Workshops through UW-Milwaukee. Contact UWM for information about registration. Continue reading "Field Station Natural History Workshops"

Halloween is right around the corner, and it wouldn’t be Halloween without bats. The National Wildlife Federation has a fantastic, step-by-step blog piece on how to build a bat house. Bats are important creatures to the ecosystem and are insect-eaters. One pesky insect that bats eat is mosquitoes, and the bat can eat hundreds in […] Continue reading "How to build a bat house"

The fall season is upon us, and many of us will spend a lot of weekends raking and dumping leaves onto the street for pickup. Instead of going through all that effort, why not try leaving them where they fall?  Many insects winter over in the fallen leaves.  As they break down over the course of […] Continue reading "Leave your leaves"

Pictures of trees changing on the WILD Center grounds. The fall season is upon us! Continue reading "The leaves are a changin’"