Chapters in Wisconsin

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Feb-April zoom classes to get certified as a POLLINATOR STEWARD:

Make a positive difference for pollinators, people, and the planet. 

 Topics include an introduction to the world of pollinators, how they live and thrive, threats to pollinators, and how we all can help. Details will be provided on habitat creation for pollinators in many landscapes including home gardens, parks, rights-of-way, and agricultural landscapes. Additional information on pollinator identification and how to share your knowledge through community outreach will be provided. 

 This course is ideal for home gardeners, land managers (large and small), farmers, organizations, government departments, and anyone who wants to do more to support pollinators. Join the growing community of Certified Pollinator Stewards!

The presenter will discuss shrubs and trees available at the Wild Ones Root River chapter's plant sale.  The benefits and challenges of different shrubs and trees for native landscaping will be discussed.  Our chapter's quarterly board meeting will follow the presentation.

5th Annual Washburn Library Seed Exchange - get ready for spring and catch up with neighbors at the seed exchange! Featuring plenty of native wildflower seeds to attract and support pollinators, along with garden veggie, fruit and herb seeds. Bring your extras if you have some to share and/or bring envelopes to take seeds home.

As we seek to restore habitat with less lawn and more native plantings, we rejoice in the return of the insects and animals that so desperately need these spaces. Join us along with Dr. David Drake, who heads up the UW Urban Canid Project, to learn more about how foxes and coyotes use the urban landscape and how their life histories and behaviors change as a result of their interactions with humans. The UWUCP aims to better understand these urban adapters so that citizens and wildlife managers alike can be more proactive in how they respond to these animals. More knowledge and understanding will lead to less conflicts.

In many ways, our modern Homo sapiens brains are nothing more than “Caveman brains in a modern world.”

Join us and guest expert, Nick Coley, Native Plant Nursery Owner and Consultant, to explore how we can craft better gardens through understanding our biological selves and our evolutionary past.

We invite you to come with your own thoughts and answers to these questions: 

How would you describe “Us”? What kind of habitat do WE need as the species Homo sapiens?And what do our brains really want out of a native garden?

This meeting is free and open to the public; just let the front gate attendant know that you are there for Wild Ones.

We will be in a classroom on the first floor of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center (past the lobby desk down the hallway to the left).