Campus Natural Areas guidelines to be presented Sept. 29

Guidelines for the use and management of the Campus Natural Areas will be presented during a public forum Wednesday, Sept. 29. The forum begins at 7 p.m. in the On Wisconsin Room of the Red Gym, 716 Langdon St.

The Campus Natural Areas Committee will present its draft of operating principles for preserving, managing, using and overseeing the 325 acres that comprise the Campus Natural Areas. The draft states that maintaining the natural plant and animal communities is of primary importance, followed by the use of the Campus Natural Areas for teaching and research.

Taking up almost one-third of campus, the natural areas are a combination of woods, restored prairie and wetlands located mostly along the shore of Lake Mendota. Well-known locations include Eagle Heights Woods, Frautschi Point, Howard Temin Lakeshore Path and Picnic Point.

For more information, contact Cathie Bruner, the Campus Natural Areas field manager, at (608) 265-9275 or catherine.bruner@ccmail.adp.wisc.edu; or Robert Ray, chair of the Campus Natural Areas Committee, (608) 262-3148; e-mail: roray@facstaff.wisc.edu.