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July 2018
Roger Kuhns: “The Last Drink of Water,” a Hike and Monologue
Join Roger Kuhns, geologist and film producer of Escarpment, Natural history and adventures along the Niagara Escarpment on a geological journey back in time as you hike through the forests and escarpment of the Door County Land Trust’s Lautenbach Woods Nature Preserve. The great arc of Niagara Escarpment, stretching from Wisconsin to Niagara Falls, is the backbone of Door County’s celebrated landscape. This karst landscape of thin soils, underlain by fractured dolomite, means rain water moves very quickly down to the aquifer…
Find out more »August 2018
Grand View Wetlands Restoration Discovery Tour
Grand View Scenic Overlook and Park in Ellison Bay is going “wild” with a native habitat restoration project on the lower 2 acres around the ponds. Though most famous for its scenic overlook atop the Niagara Escarpment, the wetlands below are providing great habitat for waterfowl, songbirds, frogs, toads, dragonflies, butterflies, insects and panfish. We’ll hike down the hill to the prairie and wetlands below. Using insect sweep nets, aquatic sampling equipment and wildflower field guides we'll discover what is…
Find out more »September 2018
Volunteer Work Day at Oak Road Nature Preserve
Join the Door County Land Trust for a morning of work at Oak Road Nature Preserve. We will be enhancing restoration efforts by continuing the control of non-native honeysuckle and autumn olive. Please meet at the Oak Road Nature Preserve parking area located at 6391 Oak Road at 9:00 am. We will begin the work day in the prairie on the east side of Oak Road to control honeysuckle and autumn olive. Then we will work towards the forested trail…
Find out more »October 2018
Strawberry Creek Chinook Salmon Facility Tour
Join DNR Fishery Biologist Nick Legler for a hands-on tour of Wisconsin’s largest Chinook Salmon egg collecting facility at Strawberry Creek, adjacent to the Door County Land Trust’s Ship Canal Nature Preserve. Every October mature Chinook salmon swim up Strawberry Creek to spawn. Their eggs are collected, fertilized and then transferred to fish hatcheries to be reared to fingerlings. Each spring a pond at Strawberry Creek is re-stocked with over 120,000 salmon fingerlings so they will imprint on the creek…
Find out more »Calling All Volunteers!
Looking to stay active this fall? We’ve got the solution! Join us for a work day at our beautiful Heins Creek Nature Preserve. First-time volunteers are welcome! The Door County Land Trust is hosting a Door Stewardship Alliance work day at Heins Creek Nature Preserve on Tuesday, October 30th from 9:00am to 12:00pm. We will be removing the existing posts around the parking area and removing brush to prepare for some much needed parking area improvements. Heins Creek Nature Preserve…
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