VOLUME 21, NUMBER 3, MAY & JUNE 2012

THE NECESSARY REVOLUTION ... AND YOU ARE INVITED! by Ken Leinbach, Executive Director

Below I share a recent email sent to 14 of us from around dialogue because he was convinced that there was no way out the globe who are working together as part of a nascent of humanity’s plight without a fundamental shift in awareness group called the Academy for Systemic Change: that would allow us to actually see that mind and matter arise from a common source and are fundamentally connected. That Hello everyone, which we perceive as our thoughts and emotions or awareness are really our part in a dance with the universe. If we could In response to an inquiry from England, I was re- learn to participate once again in that dance, he believed, reading David Bohm’s classic texts and noticed that it much would change. As Claudia said to me the other day, was exactly 8 years ago that I wrote a foreword to his we do not need to change, we just need to become aware. book On Dialogue when it was being republished. Enjoy the day! While sending this might constitute a nuisance in the midst of your otherwise busy day, I cannot help but notice how Peter prescient Bohm was in articulating the very territory that we are now seeking to bring to a larger scale of awareness. Wow, not just your hum-drum email chit chat ... eh? I share this as I think it provides unique insight David was an eminent quantum theorist, a protégé of Einstein’s into our friend Peter Senge -- ever heard of him? at Princeton. He spent the last years of his life exploring Continued on page 4

ZEN AND THE ART OF BLAZING A PATH OF SUSTAINABILITY BICYCLE TOURING by Beth Fetterley Heller, Senior Director of Education and Strategic Planning by Mike Zang, Community Educator

On May 11th the Urban Ecology One of the most exciting aspects of working at the Center at Washington Park will be Urban Ecology Center is discovering the effect of launching a premiere bicycle touring decisions we made nearly a decade ago. We were blazing series. For three solid days, we a trail of ecological sustainability. But, would anyone will explore various bike trails and follow that trail? A small Milwaukee Journal Sentinel routes of southeastern Wisconsin article about the Clock Shadow building project including two beautiful state parks - triggered a series of events that revealed the answer. Kohler-Andrae and Kettle Moraine. The former, located along the When we designed our Riverside Park facility we had a big crisp shoreline of Lake Michigan, goal: we wanted a building that could act as a role model of boasts one-hundred foot tall sand innovative green design. Our community faces combined dunes, miles of golden beach, sewer overflows, polluting our beloved rivers and lake. To pine groves and an abundance of wildlife. The latter, the reduce our impact we installed a simple, custom-made northern Kettle Moraine unit, is a 30,000 acre woodland area system that catches rain water, cleans it with gravity-fed carved out by ancient glaciers which left behind stupendous series of sieves, holds it in three 350-gallon cisterns, and land formations, known today as kettles and moraines. then, when the time is right, pumps it into our toilets.

When I traveled by bike from Virginia Beach to Oregon in Because rainwater is not considered drinkable and, according 2009, those 80 something days showed me a lot, not just in to the regulations at the time, toilet water is supposed to be terms of outer landscape, but internal clean enough to drink, we were not Continued on page 5 Continued on page 3 2

DROPLETS WISH LIST

River Reflections is created and distributed SPECIAL WISH LIST through a team effort by the following people: FOR OUR MENOMONEE Carijean Buhk, Ginger Duiven, Demetria  There are a lot of new faces at Dunn, Judy Krause, Jeff McAvoy, Pat Mueller, VALLEY BRANCH! Shirley Spelt and a volunteer mailing crew. the Center. We’d like to welcome our new staff members: Nancy Contributing writers: Beth Heller, Ken Leinbach, Regina Miller, Tim Vargo and Mike Zang. Spransy is our new HR Specialist. Below is a partial list of items Nancy volunteered for several we need for our new home in River Reflections is a publication of the Urban Ecology Center, a 501(c)3 nonprofit years on our Human Resources the Menomonee Valley. For a organization. Thanks to the generous committee. She comes to us with complete list, visit our website annual contributions of 215 foundations, extensive experience in both at www.urbanecologycenter. corporations and organizations, over 2700 not-for-profit and manufacturing org. Please contact Glenna member and many in-kind donors the Center serves over 80,000 people per year. settings. Natalie Holoubek is our Holstein at gholstein@ new Executive Assistant to Director urbanecologycenter.org to donate To make a contribution, please see page 14 for the easy to use form, visit our of Finance and Operations. items or for more information. website at www.urbanecologycenter.org Natalie has experience owning or call the Center at (414) 964-8505. her own business, organizing • Kitchenware — we need 168 matching: The Urban Ecology Center fosters ecological a local annual event with the understanding as inspiration for change, focus on buying locally, as well as - 16 oz glasses neighborhood by neighborhood. teaching. Danielle Lennie joined - Bowls Our Environmental Community Centers: our marketing and development - Large plates - Small plates • Provide outdoor science team as a Development Assistant. education for urban youth. - Silverware (forks, Danielle comes to us from Mental spoons, knives • Protect and use public natural areas, Health America of Wisconsin making them safe, accessible and vibrant. where she worked in membership • 2-drawer file cabinets (many!) • Preserve and enhance these natural and donor services, fundraising areas and their surrounding waters. and event planning. Stefan • Dry erase boards • Promote community by offering resources Gendelman has joined our staff on that support learning, volunteerism, a limited term basis as a Facilities • Meeting table and 12 stewardship, recreation, and camaraderie. Caretaker to help us in our matching chairs • Practice and model environmentally facilities maintenance area as we • Mobile/wheeled podium responsible behaviors determine what we need with the • Nice cushioned office chairs Urban Ecology Center expansion of space at Washington Park and the Menomonee Valley. (at least 6 matching) Riverside Park, 1500 E. Park Place Stefan has had his own handyman • Trash can Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 business, which included home (414) 964-8505 Fax: (414) 964-1084 [email protected] and landscaping work. Sam • Wall screen Huenink is our new Community Hours of operation: Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Program Educator. Sam comes Friday & Saturday: 9 a.m - 5 p.m. to us with extensive experience at Sunday: 12 noon - 5 p.m. Maywood Environmental Park in started as a volunteer here this Sheboygan, the Shedd Aquarium fall, and has worked in formal and Washington Park, 1859 N. 40th St., Milwaukee, and Lake Katherine Nature informal education settings, from WI 53208 (Mailing address: 4145 W. Lisbon Ave., Center and Botanic Garden in being an elementary and high Milwaukee, WI 53208) Chicago. Laurel Cutright is our school science teacher to a museum (414) 344-5460 Fax: (414) 344-5462 new Washington Park Educator. educator. She is also in grad school [email protected] Laurel was a summer intern here earning her Masters of Science Hours of operation: in 2007 and has since been doing in Free-choice learning with a Tuesday - Friday: 4 - 7 p.m. a variety of environmental and minor in wildlife science. Michael Saturdays: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. formal and informal education jobs Banks has been hired full time www.UrbanEcologyCenter.org in Minneapolis, including leading (He was here part-time on a limited Find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! high school environmental job term basis.) as Assistant Facilities corps and working with culturally Coordinator to work at Riverside diverse students as a substitute Park. teacher. Kara Baldwin will work We’re happy to have so many at the Riverside Park branch. Kara new talented folks on our team! 3

BLAZING A PATH OF SUSTAINABILITY continued from page 1 up to plumbing code. Even though he introduced himself, I laughed out him what he meant. He explained, the moment water touches the toilet loud and noted that I had a bone “The Urban Ecology Center laid bowl it becomes contaminated, it still to pick with him. Dan shared that the groundwork. We submitted our needed to enter the bowl in a potable the Urban Ecology Center’s design design to the city, they forwarded it state. This regulation launched us helped them plan their rainwater to the state, and it was approved.” into an extremely complex approval catchment system. We exchanged Just like that. What took us years to process that included installing a business cards and soon after that accomplish they were able to do with chlorination system, many days, we met for coffee and explored the just a couple of meetings. Amazing! months and years of meeting, waiting, connections between our two projects. testing, analysis, discussion, more And now Dan is picking up the reins testing and more waiting. Throughout His project, developed by my friend of sustainable building design and this process we entered into a long Juli Kaufmann of Fix Development has identified the next challenge to series of conversations with the city LLC, aimed to construct a commercial the current codes: directing rainwater and then the state. After several years building that reaches beyond current to hose bibs that can be used to of negotiation, regular (sometimes best practices in environmental design. water gardens long after a storm. weekly) water testing and some They found logic in using rain water to extreme patience, we were finally flush toilets. Monique Charlier, of Rivet Although we hoped that our tedious able to turn off the chlorination LLC, who had managed the installation work a decade ago would inspire and have our system approved as it of the Urban Ecology Center’s system, others, we had no way of knowing that was originally intended to function. was on their team. According to Dan, our struggles would make it so much Today, chemical free, clean water they braced themselves for a rough easier for someone to follow in our falling from the sky is used to flush road, yet determined to succeed in footsteps. Bravo to Fix Development our toilets. It was a long and difficult reaching this ecological goal. The road and Continuum Architects for picking process, but for us, it was worth it. was not rough. “It was easy,” Dan up the reins and capturing the rain! said. Perhaps disbelieving, I asked Fast forward to March of this year when my loving brother, Will - who always defends my honor - came to INTRODUCING TWO RISING STARS AT THE CENTER me with an article about a wonderful group of people doing good work. As the Center prepares to serve three neighborhoods However, he pointed out, the article across Milwaukee, our leadership staff has quoted Dan Beyer claiming that their grown. We welcome two new Branch Managers, new building had the first rainwater Jamie Ferschinger in Riverside Park and catchment system in the city. After all Glenna Holstein in the Menomonee Valley. we went through to implement and get approval for our rainwater, it was Jamie is well known at Riverside Park, where she alarming to see someone else claiming has coordinated evening and weekend programs credit for being the first such system. for the community for almost six years. Under her Unsure how to respond and definitely leadership, our local food programming has grown not eager to reprimand anyone for tremendously. The Local Food and Farmer Open doing great work, I deliberated with House now connects over 1,000 participants each colleagues. Should we send a correction year to Community Supported Agriculture and local in to the newspaper? Who has time for food options. Jamie and her team have also refined this? Do we really want to do this? our High School Outdoor Leader internship that introduces youth to careers in the environmental field. These questions occupied my mind for several days. In addition, Jamie is Chair of the Milwaukee Food Council, serves on the Victory Garden Initiative board, volunteers at the VA Medical Center and is an Serendipitously, days later I attended associate professor of Environmental Science and Biology at DeVry University. a breakfast meeting and found myself Before coming to the Center she completed her Master’s of Science degree in at a table full of new faces. Sitting Environmental Science and Forestry in Conservation Biology with honors and directly next to me was Dan Beyer attained her Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from UW Stevens of Continuum Architects, the guy Point. Jamie brings passion, commitment, management Continued on page 12 who was quoted in the article! When 4

THE NECESSARY REVOLUTION ... AND YOU ARE INVITED! continued from page 1

Whether you have or haven’t I’d love writes extensively. Systems thinking Three reasons come for you to hear him speak as Peter is represents a set of practices that one immediately to mind .... coming to visit the Urban Ecology can learn which offers a holistic way Center on May 31st at xx p.m. and of looking at a problem. Viewing 1) First and foremost because Peter is you are invited! (see page 6 for details) “problems” as parts of an overall just a great guy. He is sought after system, rather than just reacting to the by the highest levels of government, Six of us from the Center got to know “problem” in isolation, can help prevent business and education world wide, Peter at a conference on educational negative unintended consequences yet when you meet him you’d never change this past summer. We all hit (think Shakespeare, Central Park in a million years guess at this. He it off and have been working together and Starlings -- don’t know what I’m is the real deal. A deep thinker who ever since. He, however, has never seen talking about? Look it up!). Peter’s never really stops, but somehow the Center ... thus his upcoming visit. work has been embraced worldwide manages to keep life in balance. by the likes of Ford Motor, AT&T, Peter is a strategist and an international Nike, Harley-Davidson, the Tucson 2) The “learning organization thought leader. In 1990, as a professor School System, and many others. Two concept” is one that we embrace at at MIT, he authored the best selling decades later The Fifth Discipline is still the Center and one we think others book The Fifth Discipline: The the best selling management book in should know about. We encourage Art And Practice Of The Learning China. Peter’s most recent book is The leaders of any organization in Organization in which he developed Necessary Revolution: How Individuals the city to come and participate an organizational structure for and Organizations Are Working Together in this exciting discussion. business that he coined “a learning to Create a Sustainable World. organization”. The fifth discipline 3) Finally, we -- Peter and the six of in this structure is something called So, why are we so excited to us from Milwaukee who attended systems thinking, about which he share Peter with Milwaukee? his conference -- strongly believe that infusing the education system here in Milwaukee with the habits and structures imbued within the systems thinking approach would, long term, produce a higher URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER'S level of academic achievement overall. Perhaps more importantly our students would be better prepared for the problems the Summer Solstice Soiree next generation will need to Plan to join friends for a special summer night celebrating nature in solve. It is our hope that Peter’s visit might serve as a catalyst for the city. Enjoy the dinner, entertainment and auction items specially others in Milwaukee’s education selected to delight you. community to come together and start “a necessary revolution”! Proceeds will directly benefit the students, families, neighborhoods and the natural environments in which we carry out our mission. What I really, really like about Peter’s methods (which are being embraced by school systems across the country) is that it is not a new June 23rd, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. curriculum of what to think, but is instead a powerful set of tools we can Riverside Park, 1500 E. Park Place use to learn to how to think. This is a revolution I can get behind. TICKETS ARE $150 PER PERSON Come join us May 31st and Please check our website or contact Cassie see what you think! Mordini at [email protected] or 964-8505, x104 for more information. 5

NEW ADVENTURES UP NORTH by Regina Miller, Environmental Educator

They had no idea what to expect. It one of the schools I work with, I their strong interest in these amazing was a cold February morning when was lucky to be invited along. animals. The snow was coming down the 7th and 8th grade students from hard and in the darkness the snowflakes Milwaukee College Prep - Lloyd Upon arrival, we saw that there were blew and pecked against our cheeks. Street Campus left the familiarity of indeed many trees and lots of snow - We hiked down to the edge of the Milwaukee’s urban setting and headed knee deep snow in fact! Most of these frozen pond and then walked out for northern Wisconsin. Would the students had never been to northern onto it. We stopped in the middle land up north look like Milwaukee? Wisconsin before this trip. Their classes and waited in silence. Our Treehaven Would there be a lot of trees? Or farms, at the Urban Ecology Center are often guide went ahead alone and started open land and lots of snow? They were the first time they’ve even been out in howling for wolves. The group huddled excited and a little nervous about the the woods. Over the course of our time together and stood quietly listening for adventure ahead of them “up north”. there, the students got to participate a response. We didn’t hear any wolves in many snowy adventures including howl back, but it was a great experience These students and I were on our way cross-country skiing, snowshoeing/ to be out on the frozen pond at night to Treehaven, a residential natural tracking, and shelter building. Skiing in a snowstorm. After waiting a bit, we resources education and conference was a challenge and as all beginners do, walked back to land and gathered on facility owned and operated by the they fell quite a lot! Despite this, many benches around the campfire. As the University of Wisconsin - Stevens students said this was their favorite students made s’mores, we each had a Point, College of Natural Resources. activity. One said, “The best experience chance to reflect on what they gained Thanks to the Kopmeier Foundation, I had was when we went skiing - I from the trip. Here are their words of each year Treehaven is able to offer a thought I couldn’t do it, but I can!” reflection: “I gained courage because I two-and-a-half-day, north woods winter had the courage to try different things”, experience to two middle school classes It started snowing around 3:30 on “I gained lots of knowledge about the from our Neighborhood Environmental the afternoon of the last day we were northern woods”, “Nature is beautiful”. Education Project partnering schools. there. Later that night we all bundled Since Milwaukee College Prep is up and went out to howl for wolves. Truly this trip was an amazing The students’ endless questions showed adventure these students will not soon forget.

ZEN AND THE ART OF BICYCLE TOURING continued from page 1 as well. A mere speck compared to the to the rapidity of car travel, a long and an outfitted “sag wagon” to follow vastness of North America, my small distance bike trip gives one a greater riders with their gear if needed. It will viewpoint gave way to a whole new sense of space, of time, and of place, be imperative to bring along a tent, perception of beauty, space and time; aspects that many motorists today sleeping bag, proper cycling gear (lights all taken in at a patient 12 miles per do not or, frankly, cannot reflect on and helmets especially), and other basic hour. The bicycle (in my book, the clearly enough because of the physical camping equipment. In preparation, greatest invention ever) doubles as a constraints of motorized vehicles. I will host two orientations on April frameless viewfinder for enhancing the 28th and May 5th. Attendance to whole body-sensory experience. When Back to our trip - yes... Look forward one is required. We will work out riding over an extended period of time, to a trip that will average about 50 logistics and answer any questions. this vision increases in robustness miles a day (classified by Adventure and helps us really feel a part of our Cycling of America as “moderate”). Although we won’t be crossing the surroundings. In a country where most This will be a perfect introduction for United States, perhaps this trip vacations require frequent gas station cyclists who are somewhat experienced, will excite your spirit to ride more fill-ups, pit-stops at McDonald’s and but have yet to travel greater distances around the city, plan your own the hypnotic passing of interstate miles, overnight. The cost of our three day long distance trips, change your a long bicycle trip offers a truly unique journey will cover park admissions, perspectives or simply just enjoy the and unparalleled experience. Compared group camping, shared supplies, food, ride and think about nothing! 6 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS

BIKE TO WORK WEEK* URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER'S Socialize with other bicycle commuters and share your bicycling goals for the rest of the season! Breakfast is provided at Riverside Park along the Oak Leaf Trail. Thank you for bicycle commuting! Weekdays, May 14-18 Summer Solstice Soiree 7 - 9 a.m. RP For all eco-friendly commuters June 23rd, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. Free - donations appreciated Riverside Park, 1500 E. Park Place GREEN BIRDING CHALLENGE* Can you find the most bird species in a five hour time period? Can you do it without using any fossil fuels? Join us for our 2nd Annual TICKETS ARE $150 PER PERSON Green Birding Challenge -- a team birding competition to benefit research and citizen science at the Urban Ecology Center. Sunday, May 20 6 a.m. - noon RP For adults, teens and families Please check our website or contact Cassie $25 registration fee per person Mordini at [email protected] or See page 12 for details 964-8505, x104 for more information. SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INTERURBAN BICYCLE TOUR A NIGHT WITH PETER SENGE: Join the Urban Ecology Center’s first overnight bicycle tour. In three spring days we’ll cover 150 miles of beautiful southeastern Wisconsin THE NECESSARY REVOLUTION* terrain including Kohler-Andrae and Kettle Moraine State Parks. Come hear Peter Senge, MIT professor, strategist and Friday, May 11, 7 a.m. - Sunday, May 13, 5 p.m. international thought leader best For adults known for his top selling book The $150 (Nonmembers: $185) WP Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of Mandatory Orientation — Saturday, May 5, 9 - 10 a.m. Learning Organizations. Peter will share his story and his vision, one that we VEGAN BAKE SALE* embrace at the Urban Ecology Center, Milwaukee Vegan Bake Sale will return to Urban Ecology Center to sell delicious vegan baked goods and homegrown organic vegetable for infusing our schools with systems seedlings. All proceeds are donated to local non-profit organizations. thinking to improve problem solving, Stop by for some tasty treats and benefit a great cause. real learning and academic performance. Saturday, May 12 It’s an honor to bring someone of 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. RP this global stature to Milwaukee. For everyone Free - donations appreciated Thursday, May 31 7:30 - 9 p.m. RP A DELIBERATE LIFE: AUTHOR EVENT For adults WITH TOM MONTGOMERY FATE* Free - donations appreciated (Nonmembers - $10) The Center and Boswell Book Co. welcome Tom Montgomery Registration required by May 26th Fate. Fate will read and discuss his new nature memoir, Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild. Fate considers the modern relevance of Thoreau amid a high tech accelerated life, and if/ how a deliberate life is still possible. The book invites readers into an TEEN ADVENTURE interrogation of their own lives, and into a new kind of vision: the

ND 12 possibility of enough in a culture of more. Books available to purchase. CHALLENGE 2 Wednesday, May 16 An adventure race for co-ed teams of 7 - 8 p.m. RP 4 high school students and an adult. For adults Bike, hike, rock climb, canoe the Free - donations appreciated (Nonmembers: $5) Milwaukee River and take part in mystery events! T-shirt and lunch included. EXPLORING LAKE WISCONSIN* Saturday, June 2 Come explore “Lake Wisconsin”, Washington Park’s new 550-gallon 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. RP native fish tank, and the aquatic life of the Washington Park lagoon. For teens, Saturday, June 30 $40 per team 2 - 4 p.m. Contact [email protected] to register! For everyone $5 suggested donation WP RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park 7

FAMILY PROGRAMS

STORYTELLING WITH GEOCACHING 101 FOOD FRIDAYS* STORY TILES* Geocaching is a high-tech treasure Join our Young Scientists Club We will begin by searching for hunt in which participants seek in the planting and maintenance stories and getting inspired on hidden caches using geographic of our Learning Gardens, and a hike in Riverside Park. Then, coordinates and a handheld GPS. help us cook and enjoy tasty using hand-carved clay tiles with Come learn about how you or meals with the harvest! narrative images created by artist your family can get started in Every Friday Heather Eiden, we will make this unique and fun hobby. 4 - 6 p.m. stories of our own. For each story Thursday, May 24 For kids ages 7-12 WP we will choose four tiles, line 5:30 - 7 p.m. RP them up, write the story that we years old see, and then share the stories For everyone Free for Young Scientist Club SCIENCE SATURDAYS with others. Each participant Adults: $6 members AND SUNDAYS* (Nonmembers: $9) will make cardboard story tiles (Nonmembers: $5 Discover the world of science of their own so the storytelling Children: $4 suggested donation) through self-led interactive can continue at home. Join us for (Nonmembers: $7) Call to register, 964-8505 activities and crafts. May: The a morning of stories and fun! Call to register, 964-8505 Planets, Saturday, May 12 ANIMAL FEEDING* June: Flowers ANIMALS OF WISCONSIN 10 a.m. - noon RP Help feed the Center’s resident Drop in program For children Some very interesting animals turtles, snakes and fish. accompanied by adults call Wisconsin home. Many of Every Saturday, them can be found right here Every Saturday $5 (Nonmembers: $10) 1 p.m. RP 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. RP Call to register, 964-8505 in Riverside Park. Come along with us as we explore their For everyone Every Sunday BASIC ANIMAL CARE* world and interact with a few Free - of them in person in the Native donations 1- 4 p.m. WP For everyone Caring for animals can be a Wisconsin Animal Room. appreciated powerful way to connect with Saturday, June 9 Free - donations appreciated nature. Learn tips on how to keep 10:30 a.m. - noon RP animals happy and healthy. For everyone Adults: $6 Reptiles and Amphibians (Nonmembers: $9) Join our animal caretaker Daniel Children: $4 Rawley for a beginner’s lesson on (Nonmembers: $7) HOMESCHOOL SERIES how to care for snakes, turtles, Call to register, 964-8505 frogs, and salamanders. CRAZY ABOUT CANOEING! READY TO ROCK CLIMB! Saturday, May 19 YOUNG SCIENTISTS CLUB* Learn the basics of canoeing Challenge yourself! Can you 11 a.m - noon WP Do you know a child who’s safety and technique. Then, join make it to the top of the Urban For adults & interested in science and nature? us for a paddle on the beautiful Ecology Center’s rock climbing accompanied children From hiking to gardening to Washington Park Lagoon. wall?All participants must Adults: $6 helping with research to caring No prior canoeing experience have a completed and signed (Nonmembers: $9) for our Center’s animals, every necessary! All participants must waiver before climbing. day in the Young Scientists have a completed and signed Tuesday, June 5 Children: $4 waiver before canoeing. (Nonmembers: $7) Club is a new adventure. 2 - 3:30 p.m. RP Call to register, 964-8505 At Riverside Park Tuesday, May 22 For kids ages 5 2 - 3:30 p.m. Every Monday through WP and older Freshwater Fish Wednesday For kids ages 5 $5 (Nonmembers: and older Join our animal caretaker 4 - 5:30 p.m. RP $7) per child Daniel Rawley for a beginner’s For ages 5 through 12 $5 (Nonmembers: Call to register, 964-8505 lesson on how to care for $10 annual fee $7) per child native freshwater fish. (Plus suggested daily Call to register, 964-8505 Saturday, June 16 donation - $5) 11 a.m - noon Space is limited to 12 For adults & WP participants, please call accompanied children ahead to register, 964-8505 Adults: $6 (Nonmembers: $9) At Washington Park TEEN PROGRAMS Children: $4 Every Tuesday (Nonmembers: $7) through Friday BIKE TO THE LAKE 4 - 6 p.m. WP Call to register, 964-8505 Teens, are you excited about getting outside on a bike. We’ll start and Every Saturday off at Riverside Park, jump on one of our provided bikes, head to 1 - 4 p.m. the lakefront and we’ll see what there is to discover on the way. For kids ages 7-12 years old $10 annual membership Sunday, June 10 Call to register, 964-8505 1 - 4 p.m. RP For teens Free - donations appreciated (Nonmembers: $5) Call to register, 964-8505 8 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

ADULT LEARNING

BIRD BANDING* AT-HOME COMPOST 101* BASIC ANIMAL CARE FOR Help the Urban Ecology Center’s Learn how to start a working CLASSROOM TEACHERS* COOKING CIRCLE research team study migrating compost pile in your backyard. Animals in the classroom can be songbirds and get an up-close We’ll cover the basics of a powerful learning experience. ENTREE SALADS* look at the operation. Dress compost and different compost We’ll teach you how to set up Learn how to create simple, comfortably and for the weather. techniques and applications. an aquarium or terrarium in healthful salads for a main Tuesdays in May Saturday, May 5 your classroom, and engage course. We’ll discuss various 5:15 a.m. - noon RP 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. your students in the care of a types of greens and other WP variety of native Wisconsin vegetables that may constitute For adults and teens For adults animals. Registration required. a salad as well as how to Free - donations welcome $5 (Nonmembers: $10) nutritionally round out the Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 Monday, May 7 10 a.m. - noon meal. We’ll practice making WP homemade dressings and BEESENTATION: BEES AND BAT SURVEY WALK For all teachers, vinaigrette (including a lesson BEEKEEPING REVEALED! * homeschool parents, on how to make mayonnaise Join Mapping Specialist Anne and accompanied children This is an introduction to bees Reis for a bat survey through from scratch) and build and beekeeping. Discover who Washington Park. She will Adults: $6 our own salads to enjoy at is inside the hive and how man show how to monitor bats with (Nonmembers: $9) the end of class. Space is has managed bees for pollination an acoustic detector. Wear Children: $4 limited. Register in advance. and honey. Whether you want to comfortable shoes and bring (Nonmembers: $7) Monday, May 21 start a dance with bees through a flashlight. Meet behind the Call to register, 964-8505 6 - 8:30 p.m. RP beekeeping or just learn of the building near the rear entrance. For adults, teens dance they do to find nectar, Wednesday, May 9 BEEKEEPING BASICS- and accompanied this course gets you buzzing. 8 - 10 p.m. THREE PART SERIES* children WP Tuesdays, May 1, For adults, teens, Three 2-hour courses will give you $20 (Nonmembers: 15, June 5 & 19 and children the foundation to start beekeeping $25), Children: $5 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. RP accompanied by an adult in a Top Bar Hive, from setup to Call to register, 964-8505 For adults Free - donations appreciated installing the queen, placement, $10 (Nonmembers: $15) (Nonmembers: $5) inspections and harvesting. We MAKING PIZZA Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 cover swarming, stings and how FROM SCRATCH* to deepen your new relationship This family class will focus BIRD BANDING AT with bees. Course includes Phil GARDEN MENTOR Chandler’s Barefoot Beekeeping. on making pizza from scratch WASHINGTON PARK* TRAINING* You are required to take a test, beginning with basic yeasted Recent studies have identified co-sponsored by the attend a Beesentation and hands- dough. We’ll share topping Washington Park as one of the Victory Garden Initiative on class in spring to receive the ideas and flavor pairings busiest sites for bird and bat Beepod Certificate for Beekeeping. and practice assembling Join this dynamic group of folks and baking these pies to migration in the entire Great who are helping dozens of new Mondays, May 7, 14 & 21 Lakes Region! We will set up perfection. Recipes will be gardeners around the city to be or Mondays, provided (along with a tried mist nets and see what shows successful for their first season. up. Registration is required. June 4, 11 & 18 RP and true homemade gluten- VGI will train you to work with 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. free crust recipe). Space is Wednesday, May 2 a family for the season. Make a limited. Register in advance. difference! Grow food! Help others! $85 (Nonmembers: $100) 7 - 11 a.m. For adults For adults and teens WP Monday, June 18 Saturday, May 5 Call to register, 964-8505 6 - 8:30 p.m. RP Free - donations appreciated 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Call to register, 964-8505 WP For adults, teens For adults and ENVIRONMENTAL and accompanied accompanied children JUSTICE: WE ALL LIVE SPRING HERBAL SERIES* children $15 (Nonmembers: $18) DOWNSTREAM, BUT SOME $20 (Nonmembers: Join herbalist and wild forager Call to register, 964-8505 ARE MORE DOWNSTREAM $25), Children: $5 Linda Conroy and earn the lore THAN OTHERS* and history of herbs that promote VEGETABLE GARDEN Call to register, 964-8505 health and healing. We will go PLANNING* Join Jack Kloppenburg, University on walks to identify the plants of Wisconsin-Madison, as he EVENING BIRD HIKE co-sponsored by the discusses how Environmental of the season, make preparations Victory Garden Initiative for topical use, and create thirst Justice can revitalize communities. Spring migration is well under quenching, nourishing beverages. Learn the basics of vegetable Environmental degradation and way and more than 100 birds have gardening, just in time to the loss of ecosystem services been recorded at the urban oasis Thursdays, May 3, plant your tomatoes this year. affect everyone. But those most of Washington Park during May 10, & 17 This is the perfect chance to directly affected are often people alone! Help us see if we can add 6 - 9 p.m. RP meet other gardeners and of color, poor, and marginalized. to the list. Binoculars provided. For adults and teens learn how to use your garden Environmental justice means Wednesday, May 9 Adults: $70 for optimal production. recognizing and redressing this 6 - 7 p.m. WP (Nonmembers - $80) Saturday, May 5 pattern of disproportional impact. For adults, teens, Children: $65 (Nonmembers 9 - 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 8 and accompanied - $70) In addition to the For adults and WP 7 - 8:30 p.m. RP children fees, there is a $10 material accompanied children For adults, teens, Free - donations appreciated fee payable to instructor $15 (Nonmembers: $18) and families (Nonmembers: $5 the day of the class. Call to register, 964-8505 Free - donations appreciated suggested donation) Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER PROGRAMS (rp) = Riverside Park (wp) = Washington Park (wps) = WP Senior Center (bh) = Boathouse MAY 2012 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 5:15a-noon Bird Banding (rp) 7-11a Bird Banding (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) Bicycle Tour Orientation - 9a (wp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 10:30a Burdock 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) 9a Veg. Garden Planning (wp) 2p Tune-up Tuesdays (rp) 2p Work Outside Brigade (wps) 4p Young Drop in 10a-4p 2p Compost Crew (rp) Wednesdays (rp) 4p Burdock Scientists (wp) Science Saturdays — 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) 4p Young Brigade (wp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) The Planets(rp) 4p Young Scientists (rp & wp) 4p Young Scientists (wp) 4p Volunteer 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) Scientists (rp & wp) 7:30p Bat Monitoring 6p Spring Herbal Series (rp) Orientation (wp) 9:30a Burdock Brigade (rp) 6p VGI: Eat and Meet (rp) Workshop (rp) 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 6:30p Beesentations (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 11a At-Home Compost (wp) 11a Garden Mentoring (wp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Drop in 1-4p 10a Basic Animal Care for 5:15a-noon Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) Southeast Wisconsin Vegan Bake Sale - 9:30a-4:30p (rp) Science Sundays — Classroom 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock Interurban Bicycle Tour leaves 9a Perennials & Weeds (rp) The Planets (rp) Teachers (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) Wednesdays (rp) Brigade (wps) 7a (wp) Drop in 10a-4p 4p Young 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) 4p Young 4p Burdock 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) Science Saturdays — Scientists (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) Brigade (wp) 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) The Planets(rp) 5p Frog and Turtle 4p Young Scientists (rp & wp) 5p Volunteer Invertebrate 4p Young Scientists (wp) 4p Young 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) Monitoring Monitoring Scientists (wp) Wokshop (rp) 7p Environmental 6p Spring Herbal Series (rp) 9:30a Park Ranger Crew (rp) Justice (rp) Workshop (rp) 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 10a Volunteer Orientation (rp) 6:30p Beekeeping 6p Evening Bird Hike (wp) Basics (rp) 7:30p Community Living 7p Urban Stargazers (rp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) Options Group (rp) 6p Friends of Real Food (rp) 7p Urban Echo Poets (rp 10a The Mushroom Path (wp) 8p Bat Survey Walk (wp) 10a Story Tiles (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 5:30p Yoga Jam (rp) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Drop in 1-4p 7-9a Bike to Work 5:15a-noon Bird Banding (rp) 7-9a Bike to Work Week (rp) 7-9a Bike to Work Week (rp) 7-9a Bike to Work Drop in 10a-4p Science Sundays — Week (rp) 7-9a Bike to Work Week (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) Week (rp) Science Saturdays — The Planets (rp) The Planets(rp) 4p Young 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) Southeast Wisconsin Interurban Scientists (rp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) Wednesdays (rp) Brigade (wps) 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) Bicycle Tour returns 6:30p Beekeeping 9:30a Burdock Brigade (rp) 2p Tune-up Tuesdays (rp) 4p Young 4p Burdock 3p Volunteer 5p (wp) Basics (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) Brigade (wp) Orientation (rp) 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) 4p Young Scientists (wp) 4p Young 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 4p Young Scientists (wp) Scientists (rp & wp) A Deliberate Life: Author Event 6p Spring Herbal Series (rp) 10a Garden Plant Swap (rp) with Tom Montgomery Fate 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 6:30p Beesentations (rp) 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 7p (rp) 6:30p Vegetarian Potluck (rp) 6p Volunteer Snake 11a Reptiles & Amphibians (wp) Monitoring Workshop (rp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Green Birding Challenge 4p Young 5:15a-noon Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Big Bird Day (rp) 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) 8a Victory Garden Blitz (wp) 6a (rp) Scientists (rp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 2p Work Outside 8a Birdwalk (rp) 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) Drop in 10a-4p Drop in 1-4p 6p Entree Salads (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) Wednesdays (rp) 10:30a Burdock 4p Young Science Saturdays — Science Sundays — 6:30p Beekeeping 4p Young Brigade (wps) Scientists (wp) The Planets(rp) The Planets (rp) 2p Crazy About Basics (rp) Canoeing! (wp) Scientists (rp & wp) 4p Burdock 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) 7p Partial Solar Eclipse 8p Frog & Toad 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) Brigade (wp) 9:30a Park Ranger Crew (rp) Viewing (rp) Survey (wp) 4p Young 4p Young Scientists (wp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) Scientists (rp & wp) 5:30p Geocaching 101 (rp) 10a Book Club (rp) 5:30p Volunteer 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) Orientation (rp) 1p River Canoe (rp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 27 28 29 30 31 Drop in 1-4p 4p Young 5:15a-noon Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) Science Sundays — Scientists (rp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock Brigade (wps) The Planets (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) Wednesdays (rp) 4p Burdock Brigade (wp) 2p Tune-up Tuesdays (rp) 4p Young 4p Young Scientists (wp) 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) 4p Menomonee Hike (rp) 4p Young Scientists (rp & wp) 6p Ornithology (wp) 6p Water Safety Course (rp) A Night with Peter Senge 7:30p (rp) URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER PROGRAMS (rp) = Riverside Park (wp) = Washington Park (wps) = WP Senior Center (bh) = Boathouse JUNE 2012 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) 8a Yoga on the Tower (rp) 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) Teen Adventure Challenge 4p Young 9a (rp) Scientists (wp) 9a Good, Bad, Buggy (wp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) 4p Volunteer 9:30a Burdock Brigade (rp) Orientation (wp) Drop in 10a-4p Science Saturdays — Flowers(rp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Drop in 1-4p 4p Young 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) 8a Yoga on the Tower (rp) Science Sundays — Scientists (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) Flowers (rp) 6:30p Beekeeping Basics (rp) 2p Ready to Rock Climb! (rp) Wednesdays (rp) Brigade (wps) 3p Volunteer 9:30a Park Ranger Crew (rp) 2-3:30p Open Climb (rp) 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) 4p Young 4p Burdock Orientation (rp) Drop in 10a-4p Science Saturdays 4p Young Scientists (rp & wp) Brigade (wp) 4p Young — Flowers(rp) Scientists (rp & wp) 4p Young Scientists (wp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 5p Transit of Venus (rp) Scientists (wp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 10a Hike Lincoln Park (rp) 6p VGI: Eat and Meet 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 10:30a Animals of Wisconsin (rp) 6:30p Beesentations (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp)

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Drop in 1-4p 4p Young 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) 8a Yoga on the Tower (rp) Science Sundays — Scientists (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) Flowers (rp) 6:30p Beekeeping Basics (rp) 2p Tune-up Tuesdays (rp) Wednesdays (rp) Brigade (wps) 4p Young 9:30a Burdock Brigade (rp) 12:30p Volunteer 6:30p Volunteer 4p Young 4p Burdock Scientists (wp) Orientation (rp) 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) Drop in 10a-4p Science Saturdays Orientation (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) Brigade (wp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) — Flowers(rp) 1p Bike to the Lake (rp) 4p Young Scientists (rp & wp) 5:30p River Rhythms (bh) 4p Young 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 1p Water Safety Course (rp) 7p Building the Foundation 6p Friends of Real Food (rp) Scientists (wp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 2-3:30p Open Climb (rp) for a County Natural 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) Areas Program (rp) 7p Urban Stargazers (rp) 11a Freshwater Fish (wp) 7p Urban Echo Poets (rp 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Drop in 1-4p 4p Young 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) Science Sundays — Scientists (rp) 10a Volunteer 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) 9:30a Park Ranger Crew (rp) Flowers (rp) 6p Making Pizza Orientation (rp) Wednesdays (rp) Brigade (wps) 4p Young Drop in 10a-4p Science Saturdays 1p Water Safety Course (rp) from Scratch (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) 4p Young 4p Burdock Scientists (wp) — Flowers(rp) 2-3:30p Open Climb (r p) 6:30p Beekeeping Basics (rp) 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) Brigade (wp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 4p Young 5:30p River Rhythms (bh) 4p Young 10a Book Club (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) Scientists (wp) Riverside Park location closes at noon 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 6:30p Beesentations (rp) 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 6:30p Vegetarian Potluck (rp) 6:30p Ornithology (rp) 1p River Kayak (rp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (wp)

Summer Solstice Soiree and Auction 6:30p (rp) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Drop in 1-4p 4p Young 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 10a Forestry Fridays (wp) 9a Park Ranger Crew (wp) Science Sundays — Scientists (rp) 2p Tune-up Tuesdays (rp) 2p Work Outside 10:30a Burdock 2p Forestry Fridays (rp) 9:30a Park Ranger Crew (rp) Flowers (rp) 2p Compost Crew (rp) Wednesdays (rp) Brigade (wps) 4p Young Drop in 10a-4p Science Saturdays 1p Food & Medicine Wild 4p Young 4p Burdock Scientists (wp) — Flowers(rp) Plant Walk (rp) 4-5:30p Open Climb (rp) 4p Young Scientists (rp & wp) Brigade (wp) 4p Food Fridays! (wp) 10a Water Safety Course (wp) 1p Water Safety Course (rp) Scientists (rp & wp) 5:30p River Rhythms (bh) 4p Young 11a Canoeing Basics (wp) 2-3:30p Open Climb (rp) Scientists (wp) 1p Young Scientists (wp) 6p Water Safety Course (rp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) Exploring Lake Wisconsin 2p (wp) RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park 9

ADULT LEARNING CONTINUED

EDIBLE GARDENING GARDEN PLANT SWAP* GREAT MILWAUKEE TRANSIT OF VENUS* FOR SUSTAINABILITY Do you have some extra fruit and VICTORY GARDEN BLITZ Join the Urban Stargazers veggie plants from your garden? co-sponsored by the for a very rare and wondrous PERENNIALS AND WEEDS* The Center and Milwaukee Urban Victory Garden Initiative astronomical event. We will safely co-sponsored by the Gardens are co-hosting a live Formerly an event to install view the far off planet Venus as Victory Garden Initiative plant swap. This is an opportunity as many gardens in one it passes across the face of the Expand your palate: eat and to swap plants (e.g. berries, day as possible, this year’s sun. Viewing the sun directly grow the least energy intensive tomatoes, peppers, etc.), stories Blitz will include a week of is dangerous, so we will set up and easiest to grow foods...weeds and tips with other gardeners. garden installations all over safe viewing methods.This is a and perennials. Take a whole Saturday, May 19 Milwaukee! See our website once in a lifetime chance - this new look at creating a sustainable 10 a.m. - noon RP (VictoryGardenInitiative.org) transit won’t happen again until for the Blitz Week Calendar, 2117! Please register in advance food system through this simple For adults and families so we can confirm cancellations change in gardening focus. Free - donations appreciated volunteer information, garden installation information and if faced with inclement weather. Saturday, May 12 Call to register, 964-8505 so much more! Our big day of RP Tuesday, June 5 9 - 10:30 a.m. garden building and celebration 5 - 8:30 p.m. RP For adults and PARTIAL SOLAR will be on Saturday, May 26th! ECLIPSE VIEWING* For everyone families Saturday, May 26 Free - donations appreciated $15 (Nonmembers: Join our Urban Stargazers and 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Call to register, 964-8505 $18) per person the Milwaukee Public Museum For everyone WP Call to register, 964-8505 and safely watch the moon take a BUILDING THE big bite out of the sun! This is the Free - donations THE GOOD, THE BAD, first visible eclipse in Milwaukee appreciated FOUNDATION FOR A AND THE BUGGY* in 10 years. Remember, it’s never COUNTY NATURAL safe to look directly at the sun BOOK CLUB* AREAS PROGRAM* Identify common diseases and but we will help you observe the pests, then learn to minimize May: Cabin Fever: A Suburban Come out and learn more about eclipse safely. This event will be Father’s Search for the Wild by the Natural Areas Program, its them the permaculture way by cancelled if it is completely cloudy. promoting plant health and Tom Montgomery Fate. June: A current activities, and its goals for creating a bio-diverse ecosystem. Sunday, May 20 Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson the future from Brian Russart, 7 - 8:30 p.m. RP Natural Areas Coordinator, Saturday, June 2 Saturdays, May 26 For everyone Milwaukee County Parks/ 9 - 10:30 a.m. & June 23 UW-Extension. We are very For adults and WP Free - donations appreciated 10 - 11 a.m. RP fortunate to have over 9,000 acres families Call to register, 964-8505 For adults and teens of urban natural areas in the Free - donations appreciated Milwaukee County Park system, $15 (Nonmembers: DNR FROG & TOAD SURVEY $18) per person Call to register, 964-8505 a new 40 mile hiking trail system Call to register, 964-8505 Come out for a late night of and countless opportunities to froggin’ by ear and help add to ORNITHOLOGY enjoy nature at our fingertips. GETTING ON THE the Wisconsin DNR’s statewide WORKSHOPS* Tuesday, June 12 MUSHROOM PATH* database of frogs and toads, run Please join us for a slideshow 7 - 8:30p.m. RP by citizen scientists. Dress for delving into the wonders of the For adults, teens, and Discover how to build and the weather and wear footwear bird world, followed by a dusk accompanied children maintain your garden paths that can get muddy. We will bird walk. Binoculars provided. to provide a mushroom crop cover western and southern Free - donations appreciated throughout the season. We will use Milwaukee County. Call Tim Wednesday, May 30 (Nonmembers: $5) 6- 7:30 p.m. Call to register, 964-8505 the King Stropharia species. This Vargo x116 for details. WP hands-on class is outdoors weather Monday, May 21 permitting, indoors if needed. FOOD & MEDICINE 8 p.m. - midnight WILD PLANT WALK* Saturday, May 12 For adults and teens WP Tuesday, June 19 10 - 11 a.m. 6:30 - 8 p.m. RP WP Free for Members. Take a walk about with herbalist For adults, teens, Donation appreciation Linda Conroy and Wild Forager and families for Nonmembers For teens and adults John Holzwart. We will identify $10 (Nonmembers: $15) Call to register, 964-8505 $5 (Nonmembers: $10) and discuss the applications of Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 herbs and wild food growing right in our back yards. You will MILWAUKEE COUNTY YOGA ON THE TOWER be surprised and delighted by the YOGA JAM BIG BIRD DAY green world. We will also discuss Come flow through yoga poses to Help us count as many birds Come practice your yoga close to approaches to urban foraging live music with certified instructor as we can find in Milwaukee the sky with certified instructor and approaches to incorporating Lynn Jack. This will be a fun County in a single day during Lynn Jack. Yoga on the tower these plants into everyday life. and relaxing class. All levels are this fun research challenge. allows you to tune in to the sights Sunday, June 24 welcome; please bring a yoga mat. We’ll visit birding hot spots and sounds of nature in Riverside Park and the surrounding 1 - 4:30 p.m. RP Saturday, May 12 until we drop. Binoculars For adults provided. Bring a lunch. city as it awakens while you 5:30 - 7 p.m. RP focus on your yoga practice. $20 (Nonmembers: $25) For adults Thursday, May 24 Call to register, 964-8505 $15 (Nonmembers: $20) 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. RP Saturdays, June 2, 9, &16 (Nonmembers: $5) For adults and 8 - 9 a.m. Call to register, 964-8505 accompanied children For adults RP Free - donations appreciated $30 series Call to register, 964-8505 (Nonmembers: $45 series) Call to register, 964-8505 10 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

URBAN ADVENTURES VOLUNTEER

CANOEING BASICS OPPORTUNITIES The programs below are paid for by support from the U.S. Practice your canoeing technique Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration on the still, quiet waters of the VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Initiative, under Assistance Agreement No. GL00E00651-0. Washington Park Lagoon. Want to spend more time outside? All skill levels welcome Looking to work alongside MILWAUKEE RIVER CANOE (KLETZCH ecologically-minded people? TO RIVERSIDE PARK) Every Saturday 11 a.m. - noon Come find out how you can Explore the Milwaukee River from Kletzch to Riverside WP contribute your time and talents For adults and to the Urban Ecology Center. Park. Along the way we will discuss recent improvements accompanied children and projects happening on the Milwaukee River. Dress Saturday, May 12 for the weather and be prepared to get a little wet. ages 5 and older Adults: $6 (Nonmembers: $9) 10 - 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 26 RP Children: $4 1 - 4 p.m. (Nonmembers: $7) Fridays, May 18 & June 8, For adults and accompanied children ages 9 and older Call to register, 964-8505 3 - 4:30 p.m. $10 (Nonmembers: $15) Call to register, 964-8505 RIVER RHYTHMS Tuesday, May 22 5:30 - 7 p.m. LITTLE MENOMONEE PARK WAY HIKE Paddle down the Milwaukee River from the Rowing Club Boat Come discover this magnificent park with winding rivers House to Pere Marquette Park. Sunday, June 10, and wetland plains. On the hike we will discuss current Enjoy music and festivities at River 12:30 - 2 p.m. issues with the park and well as what we can do about it. Rhythms, then paddle back. Must Thursday, May 31 have a minimum of six participants Monday, June 11 RP 4 - 6:30 p.m. RP for the program to happen so 6:30 - 8 p.m. For everyone sign up with friends! Meet at the Rowing Club Boathouse, Tuesday, June 19 Free - donations appreciated (1990 N. Commerce St.) Call to register, 964-8505 10 - 11:30 a.m. Every Wednesday HIKE LINCOLN PARK starting June 13 5:30 - 9:30 p.m. Saturday, May 19 or June 16 Explore the new and improved Lincoln Park. Our hike starts along For adults and accompanied 10 - 11 a.m. the Milwaukee River and extends through the entire park. children ages 8 and older Saturday, June 9 Adults: $35 Friday, May 4 or 10 a.m. - noon RP (Nonemembers: $40) June 1 For everyone Children: $30 4 - 5 p.m. WP Free - donations appreciated (Nonmembers: $5) (Nonemembers: $35) Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 For adults and teens Free MILWAUKEE RIVER KAYAK WATER SAFETY COURSE* Call to register, 964-8505 Paddle the Milwaukee River from Kletzch to Riverside Park. This Come take a 30 minute water route has a couple portages and a few gentle rapids. Learn about current safety course to make sure you are BAT MONITORING ecological issues and actions you can take to improve the river. ready to get out on the water. This WORKSHOP* Saturday, June 23 training, or training through one Join our Bat Monitoring Field 1 - 4 p.m. RP of our scheduled canoe/kayak trips, Technician Anne Reis for an is a requirement of the boat lending introductory workshop on basic For adults and accompanied children ages 9 program. Registration required. and older bat monitoring techniques. $10 (Nonmembers: $15) Every Thursday We will head out after sunset Call to register, 964-8505 6 - 6:30 p.m. RP into Riverside Park to monitor bats, if the weather permits. Every Sunday starting June 9 Wednesday, May 2 1 p.m. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. RP OPEN CLIMB For adults Every Saturday Free - donations appreciated Unwind by climbing on our three story rock 10 - 10:30 a.m. Call to register, 964-8505 wall! All climbers must have a completed For adults WP and signed waiver before climbing. Call FROG AND TURTLE ahead to register, no walk-ins. Must Free - donations have a minimum of six people registered appreciated MONITORING WORKSHOP* so gather some friends and sign up! (Nonmembers: $5) Join Field Technician Katie Membership required Matulis for a workshop on frog Every Tuesday to borrow boats 4 - 5:30 p.m. RP and turtle monitoring techniques. Call to register, 964-8505 A field trip to the monitoring sites will occur, weather permitting. Every Sunday starting in June 2 - 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 7 For adults, teens 5 - 6:30 p.m. RP and children ages 6 and older accompanied by an adult For adults and teens Adults: $10 (Nonmembers: $12), Children: $8 (Nonmembers: $10) Free - donations appreciated Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park 11

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES CONT. INTEREST GROUPS

VOLUNTEER BURDOCK BRIGADE VICTORY GARDEN FRIENDS OF REAL FOOD* INVERTEBRATE Get your hands dirty! Help INITIATIVE: EAT AND MEET* Share a potluck dinner and join MONITORING WORKSHOP* us restore our parks by Join us at this Eat and Meet to the enthusiastic, discussions. Urban Ecology Center’s removing exotic invasive learn how you can get involved in Invertebrate Monitoring field plants and propagating and our now famous signature event, May: Creating Our 2012 Farm technician Maggie Tarasewicz will planting native species. The Great Milwaukee Victory Bill -- For a Healthy, Fair Food discuss ways to become involved Garden Blitz. This year we will be System and New Opportunity. Washington Park Margaret Krome, Policy with the Center’s invertebrate Senior Center installing gardens all week long. research in the lab and the field. Program Director, Michael Fields Every Thursday Tuesdays, May 1 & Agricultural Institute, will talk Wednesday, May 9 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. June 5 about what is important to include 5 - 6 p.m. RP 6 - 8 p.m. RP in the next Farm Bill. Learn how For adults and families Washington For adults, teens, and you can support new farmers, Free - donations appreciatedv Park accompanied children local food, land stewardship, fair Call to register, 964-8505 Every Thursday Free - donations appreciated markets and enough funds for 4 - 5 p.m. WP Call to register, 964-8505 nutrition assistance programs. VOLUNTEER SNAKE June: The Clock Shadow Building, MONITORING WORKSHOP* Riverside Park COMMUNITY LIVING A Sustainable Local Food System Join Urban Ecology Center’s Every Tuesday RP OPTIONS GROUP- on the South Side. The new Snake Monitoring Technician Julia 9 - 11 a.m. MILWAUKEE (COLOG Clock Shadow building in the Robson, for a discussion about 1st & 3rd Saturday MILW): COMMUNITY Walker’s Point neighborhood is research opportunities and ways of the month BUILDING NIGHT* garnering national attention as for volunteers to become involved 9:30 - 11 a.m. a venture in sustainability and in the snake monitoring project. Come share personal and group wellness. Come meet the building experiences to learn what is developer and tenants including Friday, May 18 For adults, families, and teens important to your vision for Fix Development, LLC; Clock 6 - 7 p.m. RP Free - donations appreciated community living. We will also Shadow Creamery; Purple Door For adults and teens Call to register, 964-8505 discuss planning for our annual Ice Cream; CORE/El Centro; Free - donations appreciated one day conference. CoLOG- Aurora Walker’s Point Community Call to register, 964-8505 FORESTRY FRIDAYS Milwaukee activities featured in Clinic and The Healing Center. partnership with the Riverwest Who doesn’t love trees? Help Investment Cooperative. Wednesday, May 9 & TUNE-UP TUESDAYS* us improve the health of our June 13 RP forests in Riverside Park, the Tuesday, May 8 Do you enjoy fixing bikes, 7:30 - 8:45 p.m. RP 6 - 8 p.m. tents, canoes and other types of Milwaukee Rotary Centennial For adults equipment? Would you like to Arboretum and Washington Park. For adults Free - donations appreciated Free - donations appreciated put your skills to good use for a Every Friday Call to register, 964-8505 great organization? Come join 10 a.m. - noon Call to register, 964-8505 like-minded people as part of our WP VEGETARIAN POTLUCK* NEW mechanical repair crew. URBAN ECHO POETS* Bring a plate and fork along Tuesdays, May 1, 15, Every Friday Our purpose is to observe and with your meatless dish to share 29, June 12 & 26 2 - 4 p.m. RP experience nature, then to express at our picnic-style meal. 2 - 4 p.m. RP these observations in poetry For adults and teens and essay. We will read and Thursdays, May 17 & For adults, families write and appreciate poetry with June 21 Free - donations appreciated and teens Call to register, 964-8505 images from nature at its core. 6:30 - 8 p.m. RP Free - donations appreciated For adults Call to register, 964-8505 Thursdays, May 10 COMPOST CREW & June 14 Free - donations appreciated RP Call to register, 964-8505 Come and help keep the PARK RANGER CREW 7 - 8:30 p.m. For adults Center’s compost systems Help keep our parks clean, safe EARLY MORNING working full steam! Free - donations appreciated and accessible. Dress for the Call to register, 964-8505 BIRDWALKS Every Tuesday weather and join other volunteers RP as we walk through the park Interested bird watchers of 2 - 4 p.m. URBAN STARGAZERS* all ability levels are invited For adults and teens picking up trash and noting any maintenance needs. Join us for fun, information and to explore bird life with us. Free - donations appreciated Binoculars available. Call to register, 964-8505 Every 2nd, 4th & 5th Saturday if the skies are clear, stargazing. of the month Thursdays, May 10 Every Wednesday 8 a.m. WORK OUTSIDE 9:30 - 11 a.m. RP & June 14 WP WEDNESDAYS 7 - 8:30 p.m. RP Green up your thumbs in our For adults Every Saturday Free - donations appreciated Every Thursday native nursery or while you keep 8 a.m. RP the Center’s gardens looking 9 - 10 a.m. Call to register, 964-8505 great and welcoming to wildlife. WP For adults and teens For adults, families, Free - donations appreciated Every Wednesday (Nonmembers: $5 2 - 4 p.m. RP and teens Free - donations appreciated suggested donation) For adults, families Call to register, 964-8505 and teens Call to register, 964-8505 Free - donations appreciated Call to register, 964-8505 12

GREEN BIRDING CHALLENGE IS BACK! by Tim Vargo, Manager of Research and Citizen Science

We’ll give you something to crow If you’re looking to introduce a • Mini Challenge for Families/ about. The Urban Ecology Center’s novice to birdwatching or just Children/Novices -- Shorter Green Birding Challenge is back! appreciate the assistance of a birding timeframe or the assistance expert, this challenge is for you. of a birding expert. This year’s challenge will be on Sunday, May 20th, from 6 a.m. to Teams will compete in one of Can your team find the most noon.Donations raised will help four “green” or fossil-fuel-free bird species and/or raise the most support our mission to connect people birding categories designed for donations? Prizes include guided in our community to research. all levels of skill or mobility. trips and other bird-related items. Compete to be the best team in Birding is “green” when little or • Stationary Birding -- Count your category! After the prizes are no fossil fuels are used by the folks as many birds as possible awarded, we’ll have a delicious lunch. looking for birds. The 2nd Annual from a fixed location. Green Birding Challenge is an Whether you are a world-traveled opportunity for teams of bird watching • Birding on Foot -- Head out birder or simply a cardinal enthusiasts to bike, walk or stay in on foot in search of birds. comrade, we promise that you’ll one place as they tally what they find. get hooked on green birding!. This year’s Challenge features new • Birding by Bike -- Hop on How to get started: Family/Children/Novice division. bikes to extend your range. 1. Put together a team of three people. (You can add a fourth, but only if one of your team members is a birding novice). INTRODUCING TWO RISING STARS AT THE CENTER Mini-Challenge teams will continued from page 3 not be limited in number.

skills and intelligence to her new role. Please 2. Choose a category in congratulate her on your next visit to Riverside Park. which to compete

Glenna was first introduced to the Center nearly a 3. Register your team online decade ago as a high school student assisting with land at: www.urbanecologycenter. stewardship and citizen-based monitoring projects. This org/greenbirdingchallenge/ is where she first uncovered her passion for education, registration.html. Registration ecological responsibility and justice. She graduated with Fee: $25.00 per person. honors from Pomona College where she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in environmental analysis with 4. After you register, start collecting an emphasis in race, class, gender and the environment. pledges! Ask folks to visit www.urbanecologycenter.org/ Over the years, Glenna has specialized in bilingual environmental education. greenbirdingchallenge/pledges. Through teaching in Philadelphia and Chicago, she developed a love of urban html to donate online or to learn teaching and a deep understanding of public school system achievements, about alternate ways to give. You challenges and academic assessment. Though a native English speaker, Glenna can also download a pledge sheet put her formal Spanish language training to practice by providing tutoring and collect donations as you go and academic support for school age children in Peru, teaching English about your day (please turn in to Mexican and Guatemalan adults in California, and leading education all donations by the day of the activities for a zoo in New Mexico. In addition, she ran an environmental Challenge). Don’t forget to give education program for the Albuquerque Biopark in New Mexico. folks your team name so you can be credited with their donation While Glenna fully deserves accolades for achieving such a well rounded set of experiences that prepared her for this position, we are proud to have been a Ready to look for birds? Sign part of her learning process. Who better to speak for the Center than someone your team up today! who has experienced it as a member, a volunteer, an intern, an employee and now a leader! Please help us welcome Glenna to her new role. 13

THANK YOU FROM THE CENTER

The Urban Ecology Center receives a majority of its support from local foundations, corporations and individuals. This section of our newsletter is reserved to thank you and the many supporters of the Center. The names listed are those who made a contribution to the Urban Ecology Center in the two months since our previous newsletter. We thank all of you who have begun a new membership, renewed your membership, given a gift membership or made a donation to our mission. We work hard to recognize all our supporters accurately. Contact Cassie at 964-8505 or [email protected] if your name has not appeared as you expected.

FOUNDATIONS / - Rebecca Burda & IN MEMORY OF… Renee Joos & Jason Steigman & Dori CORPORATIONS/ Brian Swift Al Peronto’s birthday Brandt Mylott Frankel-Steigman ORGANIZATIONS - Rachel Christenson - Sara Peronto Gabriele Jung Igor & Catherine Stevic - Meg Daly Carol Justin & Vickie & Timothy Ameriprise Financial Orvella Flaten - Kendra DeMarco - Nancy Thomadsen Ed Szopinski Strattner Divine Word - Matthew & Kurt Kleman Jeff & Annette Swanson Lutheran Church Kate Edwards Judith L. Knight Marc & Monica Door County Land Trust INDIVIDUAL - Dan & Pat Fetterley DONORS & Alan Rank Swanson Downtown Rotary - Sarah & Will Fetterley Laura & Dan Fay Tellefsen & Club of Milwaukee - Meghan & Anonymous (12) Knollenberg Paul Muggli Fidelity Charitable Gift Josh Forseth Tom & Pat Bachhuber Tory & Brendan Kress James Topitzes Fund Cincinnati - David & Lisa Froiland Michael Balestrieri Daniel LaFrenz Michael & Katie Utschig Foster Family - Stacy Goetzman Kevin Barry Tom Lais Sonia Valdes Foundation - Amy Gutowski Jeff & Anne Bartelt Steve & Dianne Larson William Waszak Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. - Marvin & Joanne Julianne Bauer Kristi Lasch Ann Wegner LeFort Great Lakes Restoration Heller Julie Baumann Barbara Lund & Ben LeFort Initiative - Christel Henke Craig Berg Melanie Mailloux & Kevin & Patty Whaley Greater Milwaukee - Dante & Jennifer Chuck & Lena Biller Dan Mielnicki Teig & Lindsay Foundation, Inc. Houston Jeff & Laura Bray Keith Mardak & Whaley-Smith Harley-Davidson - Dean & Lois Maggie & Ben Brown Mary Vandenberg Troy & Kathy Wohlt Motor Company Markwardt The Buff - Austin Family Norva & Jerome Mark & Evonne Jesuit Volunteer - Kristin Matera Robert Buskirk McCutcheon Zalewski Corp. House - Jennifer Mattes & Lori Pagel Sandra & Thomas Tricia & William Zippel Johnson Controls - Brian & Angela Susan & Liam Callanan McLellan Foundation, Inc. O’Regan Matthew Caton & Tom & Monique Meyer IN KIND DONORS Just Give - Erin Peschel Khanh Pham Joyce & Brian Miller Marty & Monika Linda Gale Sampson - Glen Radford Daniel Christl Patricia Monroe Charitable Fund, Inc Bachhuber - Rich & Patty Roberts Amy & Tyson Ciepluch Katie Mosack & Heather & Dana Bott McKey Perforating Co. - Sarah Smith John & Christi Clancy Dave Armin Milwaukee Capital, Inc. Jon Ellis - Sarah Stout Ann Cornell & Patricia & George Martha & Stu Fleck Milwaukee Recreation - Karin Tamblingson Peter White Mueller Molded Dimensions Stephen Gaza - NJ Unaka & Jamie Edward Corrigan Rich & Lori Niemoeller Glen & Kathy Grieger Morgan Stanley Washam & Lizette Lewis Tamara & Allan Pacada Morton Community Dennis Grzezinski - Katie Weeks Penny & Chuck Cruse Rightie Pappenheim & Jane Porath Foundation Quinn & Reid Muderlak Rose Daitsman Kirk Peterson Murray Hill Mary Hayes - Mary Hinner Terrance Davis Steven Pincus & Emily John Neighborhood Assoc Kat Reilly & Nick Martha Davis Kipcak Elizabeth Kazmar Robert W. Baird & Beth Kaplan & Toman Heather DuCloux John Price & Colleen Steve Marshall Co. Foundation - Anonymous Gay Edwards Reinhartz Gunther Sigma-Aldrich Joanne & Dan Kline Pat Mueller’s birthday Mustafa & Laura Emir Julia Revane David & Elizabeth Corporation - Anne & William Rose Lincoln & Lilith Fowler Perfecto Rivera & Sodexo Lindsey Nancy Aten Laurie Geisel & Lyn Holt-Rivera Cassandra & Ryan SPX Foundation - Door County Bruce Thompson Hugo & Lori Rojas The Outdoor Foundation Mordini Land Trust Jonathan Gifford Kelly Ryan & Charles Murphy U.S. Bancorp Foundation Ken Leinbach & Michael Griggs & Matthew Taylor U.S. Forest Service Elizabeth Nelson Max Balan Carol Nguyen Judy Saichek Kristina Paris Urban Ecology Center - Dennis Grzezinski Mary Gute Witte Terry & Stacy Sandee Photo Club Claire Pfleger & Jane Porath & Ned Witte Stephanie Sandy & Rodney Scheiner Veolia Environmental Ben Werner’s Bar Rebecca Hall Allan Montezon Services Elizabeth Silver & Mitzvah Heidi Harder Charles & Anne- Brian Thompson Walton Family - Kenneth & Julianna Margarete & Marie Schmitt Foundation, Inc. Audrey & Phillip Kapp David Harvey Janet Scholl Waitkus Wisconsin Coastal - The La Prest & Laura Hauske & Robert Smith Management Program Stephen & Barb Werner Family Andy Read Susan Smith Weinstein Wisconsin Society for - Jannis Mindel Charles Hays Greg Spurry & Ornithology, Inc. Michael & Mary Wilke John Schafer’s birthday Beth & Aaron Heffernan Nancy Greuel Jason & Lynn Williams - Jessica Zalewski Steven & Cathy Hoelter IN HONOR OF… & John Schafer Paul Jarvis & Chris Beth Heller’s birthday Zoe Kohl’s birthday Sheridan - Anonymous - Alexandra Dimitroff Ruth & Richard Joachim - Kristin & Justin - Jennifer & Jason Martin & Kristie Thank Arndt Rosenberg Jochmann - Clair & Mary Baum Richard & Kathy - Philip Bielefeld Johnson You Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Milwaukee, WI. Permit Riverside Park No. 5190 1500 E. Park Place Milwaukee, WI 53211

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