Tag Arboretum
Madison Reads Leopold set for Saturday at UW Arboretum
The UW–Madison Arboretum — where Aldo Leopold helped establish a pioneering experiment in ecological restoration — will host Madison Reads Leopold, a public reading from Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” on Saturday, March 3, in celebration of Aldo Leopold Weekend. Read More
Arboretum director to return to teaching
Kevin McSweeney, a University of Wisconsin–Madison soil scientist who has directed the university's internationally famous Arboretum since 2004, announced this week that he is relinquishing that administrative post and returning to the faculty. Read More
Arboretum Local Products Expo encourages shopping green and local
Holiday shopping takes on a local, sustainable twist at the Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Expo Sunday at the UW Arboretum. Read More
New pond will protect Arboretum, Lake Wingra from stormwater influx
There's nothing secret about the Secret Pond restoration project at Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. Any time trees fall and bulldozers roll at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, people take notice. Read More
“Plants of the Arboretum” program set Sunday
The UW Arboretum is inviting families to enjoy springtime blooms while learning about ecological invaders through naturalist-led activities and games Sunday, May 22 starting… Read More
April’s Spring Sprint benefits UW Arboretum
Hot on spring's heels comes the second annual Spring Sprint for the Arb presented by Nakoma Dental. Read More
Online map allows visitors, naturalists to share Arboretum experience
If the UW Arboretum were just a pretty place to take a walk, its new Interactive Map wouldn't need much more than crisscrossing trails, grey blobs for parking lots and symbols marking the restrooms. Read More
Recent sightings: Blooming crabapples
A golden sun sets behind a bouquet of blooms on a Rosseau flowering crabapple tree at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum on April… Read More
Arboretum prairie burn underway
A controlled burn at the UW–Madison Arboretum began late this morning, Thursday, April 1, and will last several hours. East Curtis Prairie is being… Read More
Come out and play at the Arboretum
Snirts (those disgusting piles of snow and dirt) have receded, birds are returning from the south, backyard grills are fired up and people are busting… Read More
Public invited to learn about Wisconsin’s wetlands
Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, the public is invited to join hundreds of wetland scientists and advocates next week during the joint meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Wisconsin Wetlands Association and Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium. Read More
Birthplace of ecological restoration celebrates 75 years
During the Great Depression, a group of University of Wisconsin–Madison scientists looked over several hundred acres of eroded farmland on the outskirts of Madison and envisioned its rebirth. To Aldo Leopold, the pioneering wildlife ecologist and conservation sage, the beat-up farmland offered an opportunity to restore nature in a way that had never been done before. Read More
Recent sightings: Turkey trot
Photos: Bryce Richter A gang of turkeys crosses a path at Curtis Prairie in the UW Arboretum on Nov. 21, 2008. Read More
Ancient mounds make UW–Madison a unique landscape
The UW–Madison campus includes 38 effigy and burial mounds in six groupings. Read More
Restoring order: UW Arboretum runoff solutions combine ecology and engineering
In spring 2008, a class of undergraduate and graduate engineering students studied a section of Wingra Marsh to learn more about the hydroecologic effects of the massive stormwater inflow. "Stormwater management infrastructure throughout the Arboretum is failing due to age and increased flows of runoff from the surrounding watershed," says David Liebl, a UW–Madison engineering professional development faculty associate who chairs the Arboretum stormwater committee. Read More
New projects take aim at Arboretum stormwater problems
Even after the most violent rains, stormwater usually recedes from city streets within hours. But in the downstream places where this water collects, the impact can be lasting, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum. Read More
Recent sightings: Up for air
A baby painted turtle — about the size of a quarter — rises between tiny blades of grass from a shallow puddle… Read More
Recent sightings: Winter solitude
A lone cross-country skier passes by as nighttime falls over a snow-covered oak savanna at the UW Arboretum’s Curtis Prairie New… Read More
Fight to save celebrated prairie continues
Students from UW–Madison’s general ecology class have joined Arboretum researchers and land managers in an ambitious five-year plan to subdue the spread of invasive reed canary grass in the UW Arboretum’s Greene Prairie. Read More