VOLUME 19, NUMBER 5, SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2010

A COASTAL BIRD, AN OIL SPILL AND ME by Ken Leinbach, Executive Director

“Large beak, mostly white with black Happy Coastal Awareness Month! “Holy Cow! There’s your bird! wings and maybe black on its head, I That is so cool!!! Look at the way couldn’t tell for sure. I’d swear it had In honor of September being Wisconsin’s it glides. The wing span must be a orange feet. A REALLY big bird. Any Coastal Awareness Month as designated full eight feet! I’d know that bird ideas?” by Governor Doyle, our three lead anywhere; I just don’t think of them articles all focus on our coastal waters. in Wisconsin. It’s a white pelican!” “You’re sure it was not a gull ... right? Geez, the only thing I can think of that The next morning I convinced might match this description is the black crowned night heron ... but my host to join me in our inflatable sea kayak and go the orange feet don’t fit and the heron is big, but not REALLY big.” way out into Green Bay. My secret objective was to get a better sighting of this amazing flyer. It worked. I was visiting some friends in Door County There it was, gracefully gliding close over our heads. looking out at Green Bay. Literally ten minutes When it touched down on the water we gave chase. after this questioning I looked up in the sky. Continued on page 3

OF ASPHALT AND RAIN GARDENS: LAKE MICHIGAN MUSINGS A TEACHER’S SUMMER by Glenna Holstein, Environmental Educator by Beth Fetterley, Senior Director of Education and Strategic Planning

How do teachers spend their summer? When they spend it I’ve been thinking a lot about water recently. For one with the Urban Ecology Center, they get to play outdoors, thing, at the end of this summer I am going to be moving meet professional colleagues and, most importantly, to Albuquerque, NM, a place with very, very little water. they tap into what drives them the most: learning. I’ve become more aware of how much I enjoy living in such a water-rich place and I’m determined to enjoy all of the For eleven years, the Urban Ecology Center has teamed up benefits it has to offer before I move. The more I think about with UW Madison’s Arboretum to offer hands-on, inquiry- it, the more privileged I feel to live in a place along the based ecological trainings for school teachers. This program, shore of Lake Michigan. The lake is so important, not just the Earth Partnership for Schools (EPS), was launched with because it supplies one of our most vital physical needs, but a vision of students and teachers working and learning because I believe it fulfills some of our deeper needs as well. together to create ecologically rich outdoor learning spaces on school grounds and study them. Implementing this Ask any child what her favorite day at summer camp was vision has been an exceptional challenge for participating and she’s likely to say “beach day!” It’s incredible how every urban schools because school property is often covered in single child is able to find something to connect to at the concrete and asphalt. Together we rose to the challenge, lake, whether it’s skipping stones, searching for “sea glass” working closely with over 30 schools and 100 teachers in (broken glass that has been worked over by the waves to make the Milwaukee area to plant native gardens and integrate it rounded and smooth), burying their counselor or splashing the planning and implementation into reading, math, in the frigid waves. Perhaps such an easily crossable boundary science, art and social studies lessons for urban youth. between land and water enables children to stop worrying about other “boundaries” they have in their minds and just So far, this initiative has been going very well. The Urban play. Or perhaps it’s the sheer vastness of sparkling water before Ecology Center is one of seven EPS hubs across the state them that allows their imaginations to run wild and their Continued on page 4 Continued on page 3 2

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 We are excited to welcome two program honors innovative bike- River Reflections is created and distributed new environmental educators friendly efforts and recognizes through a team effort by the following people: Carijean Buhk, Ginger Duiven, Judy to our team! Regina Miller employers’ efforts to encourage a Krause, Jeff McAvoy, Lindy Meer, Pat Mueller, brings with her over 10 years of more bicycle friendly atmosphere Shirley Spelt and a volunteer mailing crew. experience in the environmental for employees and customers. Contributing writers: Jamie Ferschinger, Beth education field and has a passion Fetterley, Glenna Holstein, Ken Leinbach, Jeff for teaching and connecting  Congratulations, Eric! Long time McAvoy, Susan Winans and Joey Zocher. children to the outdoors. Haven Urban Ecology Center friend, River Reflections is a publication of the Davis will spend a year with us Eric Hansen, received a first place Urban Ecology Center. The Urban through the Lutheran Volunteer award for Commentary/Editorial Ecology Center is a 501(c)3 tax exempt Corp. She recently graduated from the Wisconsin Broadcasters nonprofit organization. Its facility and from Gustavus Adolphus College Association for his WUWM op-ed programming are made possible through the generous annual contributions of 82 with a degree in environmental essay originally titled “Copenhagen, foundations and corporations, over 3000 studies and English and has Climate Change and Common member and donor families and many in- experience teaching environmental Sense Conservation in Wisconsin”. kind donors. No tax dollars are used to education in Minnesota. Eric hopes that this award is “a operate the Urban Ecology Center. solid encouragement to other To make a contribution, please see page  We are sad to say good-bye to citizen essayists, a nudge to stand 14 for the easy to use form, visit our website at www.urbanecologycenter. three excellent educators. Glenna and deliver. The door is open org or call 964-8505. Holstein has been connected to and there is much to be said.” the Center as a volunteer, intern The Urban Ecology Center fosters ecological understanding as inspiration for and staff member for the past  Call for your best rummage change, neighborhood by neighborhood. six years. Her insightful and items. The Victory Garden Our Environmental Community Centers: thoughtful approach to teaching Initiative needs items for their • Provide outdoor science and life are exhibited in her article rummage sale at the Urban education for urban youth. “Lake Michigan Musings” found Ecology Center Fall Festival on th • Protect and use public natural in this newsletter. She is moving September 25 . Please contact areas, making them safe, to Albuquerque, NM for new Gretchen Mead at gretchen.mead@ accessible and vibrant. adventures in teaching and the gmail.com if you have gently • Preserve and enhance these natural outdoors. Jon Rogers started last used items valued at $5 or more areas and their surrounding waters. summer as a summer intern and that you are willing to donate. • Promote community by offering then became an educator through resources that support learning, the Lutheran Volunteer Corp. volunteerism, stewardship, Jon’s positive “can-do” attitude WISH LIST recreation, and camaraderie. and ability to inspire kids to • Practice and model environmentally learn and have a whole lotta fun To see our complete list visit our website www.urbanecologycenter.org responsible behaviors outside will be missed! His year Urban Ecology Center of service ended in August and For Riverside Park Contact: Judy Krause, 964-8505, x102. Riverside Park, 1500 E. Park Place we look forward to seeing where • Beekeeping veils Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 he uses his talents next! Jeanne • Ceramic and terracotta pots (414) 964-8505 Fax: (414) 964-1084 Salmon has worked with us as • Chain saw [email protected] a High School Outdoor Leader • Dandelion diggers & trowels • Globe (one that has a base and spins) Hours of operation: intern, an Adult Summer Intern Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. • iPad and Urban Adventures Assistant. • Seasoned firewood Friday & Saturday: 9 a.m - 5 p.m. This fall Jeanne will be taking on a Sunday: 12 noon - 5 p.m. • Woodworking tools hand or powered new adventure with Public Allies. Washington Park, 1859 N. 40th St., We’ll miss her and hope to see her For Washington Park Milwaukee, WI 53208 again, so instead of “goodbye” we’ll Contact: Joey Zocher, (414) 344-5460. (Mailing address: 4145 W. Lisbon Ave., • Adult and youth plain tshirts and Milwaukee, WI 53208) just say “See you later, Jeanne!” sweatshirts (for silkscreening) (414) 344-5460 Fax: (414) 344-5462 • Electric golf cart [email protected]  The Urban Ecology Center is • Old plastic cards to use for silkscreening Hours of operation: delighted to be the recipient of • Outdoor paint (any color) Tuesday - Friday: 4 - 7 p.m. the 2010-12 League of American Saturdays: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. • Rakes Bicyclists Bicycle Friendly Business • Softball equipment www.UrbanEcologyCenter.org Bronze Award. This national award 3

A COASTAL BIRD, AN OIL SPILL AND ME continued from page 1

Being the nature nut that I am, these catastrophe is unconscionable ... but ... was not intentional. Unfortunately, are the kinds of moments I live for. We when making a profit is the primary however, the accident is a statistical got within 30 feet of this amazing sea motive for a company, cutting corners likelihood when we live in a world that bird (or lake bird in this case). We even should not be all that surprising. is so desperate for and dependent on oil. watched as it scooped its inflated beak into the water attempting to trap a fish! Or should I instead get mad at the So what can I do? I can’t control government? Shouldn’t they have the policies and practices of large Sharing this adventure at work is proper oversight and regulation for this corporations and I’m not in a position when the horror of the situation kind of thing? If they can control what to influence the actions of our federal struck home. These elegant birds kind of fence I put up in my yard, it government. Even if I were, I’m not which are making a remarkable certainly seems like they should have sure I’m smart enough to know what comeback by nesting on Cat Island some say in the safety procedures of the right actions are to take. What in Green Bay will all be migrating a deep water oil well. On the other I can control, however, is me. I have this winter to the Gulf of Mexico. hand, regulation costs money ... am my political vote, I have my economic I willing to pay for this oversight? muscle, and I have free will to choose This is sooo wrong! It makes my Are you? Based on polls, it seems my actions. When it cames to energy blood boil and my heart falter. I wish that many in this country are not. conservation and promoting clean we could warn them. What are their energy sources I, for one, intend to take chances? Will the oil slick in the Or should the blame fall on me? I my actions to the next level and I hope Gulf subside by the time they arrive? still want to be able to drive to Door you will consider doing the same. Will the fish they depend on even be County when the mood or opportunity there? If so, will they be safe to eat? allows. My actions are a loud vote for I want my kids, and I want their kids more drilling no matter what my words and all the kids seven generations out Who do I get mad at? BP Oil for say. This is why I choose to avoid the and beyond, to have the opportunity to not following proper protocol with blame game, because in the end I always see the white pelican glide over Lake their drilling? They certainly share a find that I had a hand in the mess. Michigan. It is a rare and beautiful site. good portion of the blame for shoddy work, bad judgment and questionable No one, BP, the government, I or Maybe you aren’t like me. Maybe management. The string of errors anyone else wanted this accident to seeing a white pelican glide through that led to the explosion and resulting happen. It is not a conspiracy and it the crisp Wisconsin air isn’t the thing that gets you all jazzed up, but never having the opportunity to see this would be just plain wrong. LAKE MICHIGAN MUSINGS continued from page 1 At the Urban Ecology Center we make every effort possible to role model personal and collective behaviors that inhibitions to fade away. But whatever it made perfect sense that everyone lead to less consumption, less habitat it is, children’s interaction with nature in the world lived along a huge lake. destruction and less fossil fuel use. We is never so easy and natural as it is also role model appreciation. We teach along the lakeshore, which usually Sometimes I wish every child did how the ecosystem works in a balance. makes beach day my favorite day too. grow up on a lake, because I see how We don’t dwell on environmental formative that can be. What I hope problems, but we don’t sugar coat them I remember when I traveled to Anapia each of us gains from our experiences either when it is appropriate to bring Island on Lake Titicaca, Peru, I found on our beautiful lakeshore is a deep them up. We provide information I shared something really special sense of possibility as we look out on and teach kids how to think ... we with the children there who were also the water that seems to never end. do not tell kids what to think. Our growing up along the shores of a huge But I hope we gain an equally deep loudest voice and our greatest influence lake. When I showed them pictures of sense of responsibility, recognizing come from our actions — how we Lake Michigan, they said “Oh, that’s that the water needs to be cared for use water, how we conserve fuel, what your lake looks like?” as though and conserved, so that it continues to how we enjoy nature and how we be a place where internal barriers are interact with each other. Thanks for washed away and wonder is born. being part of our community. 4

OF ASPHALT AND RAIN GARDENS: A TEACHER’S SUMMER continued from page 1 of Wisconsin. Two years ago UW native rain gardens. As educator Kathy This summer the teachers are studying Madison introduced EPS nationwide, Palmer states, this program “illustrates two watersheds: Lake Michigan and providing training for education centers what we can be doing better.” Lake Superior. They are fully immersed from Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, in the context of living in Wisconsin’s California, Oregon, Maryland, The EPS program evolved into the freshwater ecosystem while they learn Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Kansas, Great Lakes Earth Partnership with how to do positive things with their Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina. a new focus on rain gardens and the students to protect this freshwater It has been embraced by colleagues connection between the quality of our resource. “Among teachers there is around the country as a successful land and the quality of the water. This great interest in using rain gardens as experiential learning program. happened as our cities, state and country educational tools. Planting and using began to recognize that our citizens — a rain garden for scientific study is But, this summer we decided to our students — need to understand that multi-disciplinary and appropriate for change it. Why change a successful what happens on their school grounds all age groups,” Palmer added. “Even model? The answer: because of what and at their homes impacts everyone. people who aren’t environmentalists is happening in Milwaukee right clearly see the need for rain gardens now, even as I write this article. As For example, during this summer’s to increase water absorption and I put words to the page, the city is amazing flood the Urban Ecology alleviate run-off into storm sewers.” recovering from floods that caused Center’s rain gardens held rainwater, a road to swallow a SUV. Many cars preventing it from flowing into the So, what did our teachers do this were washed off streets into overflow already inundated sewers. The rain summer? They played and explored channels and creeks that had turned gardens also helped to minimize pooling outdoors. They learned, worked hard into rivers, resulting in tragedies of lost on the saturated lawn and football and had fun. They became a part of lives, injuries, damaged property and field and served as an amazing learning the solution. What a great way to polluted waters. This flooding added tool for children and adults alike. prepare for the school year! urgency to our past goal of planting

PAT’S BIG DEAL by Joey Zocher, Washington Park Program Director

Have you ever thought you were telling to last. Just when I feel confident without our snake board study. And, we someone something small, only to enough to throw my guess out there, wouldn’t have had this study without realize it meant something big to the Pat reveals the answer, “a SNAKE!” the help of Citizen Science volunteers. listner? I love it when that happens. Just the other week I got to let a Now, if you’ve met me, you know I Are you interested in helping with our neighbor know her little tidbit was get pretty excited about things. Even Citizen Science research? Join us every actually a big deal. Here’s how it went: small things. Pat knows me pretty well, Wednesday for our Citizen Science but I think even she was surprised by day! Weekly activities include water “Hey, Joey?” Tory yells to see if how excited I was to hear this. You monitoring and morning bird hikes. I’m in my office using our back-to- see, we’ve been looking for snakes in basics intercom system. “Pat’s on the Washington Park for the past three Thanks to a kind donation from phone for you.” Smiling, I pick up years. Citizen Science volunteers placed Prairie Nursery again this year, the the phone. “Joey, you’ll never guess large pieces of plywood, called snake Milwaukee Conservation Leadership what I just saw in the gardens by the boards, on the ground throughout the Corps and our Young Scientists have Senior Center!” The first idea that park, trying to coax these critters into helped us plant an additional 2,000 pops into my mind is dragonflies. Pat a warm resting spot. They diligently native plants. This means we may loves dragonflies and brought over a check under these boards, yet, we have have more Monarchs this year. We dead one she found a few weeks ago. never found a snake. In fact, until this can find out only with your help. Join Although our citizen scientists have phone call we have never even heard of us for Monarch Butterfly Tagging on only recently started keeping track, anyone seeing one! This is great news September 2nd! Exciting changes are it seems like there have been twice as for Washington Park, but we wouldn’t happening in Washington Park. Who many dragonflies this year compared have known what a big deal it was knows, maybe you’ll be the person who discovers the next “big deal!” 5

RECORD BREAKING Key Sponsors SOLSTICE! by Jeff McAvoy, Marketing Communications Associate

Our 3rd Annual Summer Solstice Soiree and Auction was a smashing success! We hosted more guests and raised more funds than ever! Over 200 guests enjoyed each other’s company, a wide array of “green” auction items, Major Sponsors delicious organic food, gourmet desserts and music, all while showing their tremendous support for our mission.

Many people worked together to pull off this fantastic event. Special thanks go to Jennifer Bolger Breceda, Jim Schleif Jim Schleif, Jeff Anthony, Danni Gendelman, Liz Graumann, Amy Northshore LaMacchia, Mary Gute Witte, Will Nasgovitz and Tracy Wilkins for their dedicated efforts. We’d also like to Tim and Mary extend our appreciation to the board members, sponsors, auction item donors Bowers and attendees for their support.

If you’d like to help plan next year’s Soiree, contact Ginger Duiven at 964-8505 or gduiven@ urbanecologycenter.org. Supporting Sponsors Photos left to right: A surprise visit from “Mother Earth” — a piece from “George Gonzalez Saggio CG Schmidt & Harlan Harris Bank Mandel Group Sheppard’s - Milwaukee Wearable Sculpture Show”; Board Members and Event Co-chairs Milwaukee Capital MSI General P&H Mining River Run Jim Schleif and Jennifer Bolger Breceda Equipment Computers, Inc relaxing after all their great work to bring Rockwell Susie and Fred the Soiree to life; Shel and Board Member Automation Kasten Godfrey & Kahn Palermo Pizza Danni Gendelman share a glass of wine with Lucy Rosenberg as the evening begins. Outpost Natural The Private Bank Muscari Flowers Foods 6

SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER CALENDAR OF PROGRAMS SPECIAL EVENTS

Calendar 10/10/10 TOUR WITH KEN Key: WASHINGTON BARK DOG DAYS* Bring your four-legged friend and join us for the sixth annual Join Executive Director Ken Leinbach’s “Global Work What’s with Washington Bark Dog Days. In addition to the dog pools, Party” tour and clean-up of the newly protected Milwaukee all the frogs & lure-coursing, dog psychic and vendors, we will have an open River Basin. Inspired by author Bill McKibben’s “Global fish? house at the Center. You and your best bud are welcome to Work Party” invitation to communities around the world The Center meet our native snakes, turtles and fish at 1 p.m. then join to understand and work toward solutions to protect the offers public us on a walking tour of the restoration projects happening environment, Ken is sure to inspire. Tour includes: 5-10 in the park at 2. Proceeds benefit ROMP, Neighborhoods programs United for Washington Park and the Urban Ecology Center. mile hike depending on how far we get, a clean-up service at both project along the way and an environmental conversation Riverside & Sunday, September 12 focused on action. Come dressed for the weather. Washington 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. WP Sunday, October 10 Parks. Use $6 per dog 1 - 4 p.m. RP these icons (includes a doggie goodie bag) to know at For adults and children a glance accompanied by an adult the location $10 (Nonmembers - $20) of each RP Call 964-8505 to register program. Fall Festival* Woohoo, it’s fall! FILM SCREENING: Time to get out for some family fun! RP BAG IT: IS YOUR LIFE TOO PLASTIC? Riverside Park Meet our bees and visit their home! INCLUDES DISCUSSION WITH SPECIAL GUEST AND PRODUCER MICHELLE HILL* Shop for rummage and preserved fruit and veggies thanks to Victory Garden Iniave Try going a day without plastic. It is a challenge! Plastic WP infiltrates our lives in unimaginable ways. Bag It, a film by Washington Try some hands-on science experiments Suzan Beraza, starts as a film about plastic bags and evolves Park Go rock climbing into an investigation of how plastic affects our lives, bodies and waterways. Travel around the world with us through a Enjoy a nature walk in Riverside Park film that unveils how little we truly know about plastics! Programs Create cra s Following the film producer Michelle Hill will lead a marked with discussion and answer questions about the film. This is an an * are Ride in a carriage event you should not miss…we’ll provide the popcorn! accessible Play games for persons Saturday October 23 with physical Eat caramel apples and baked potatoes 7 p.m. RP disabilities. Visit resource booths and more For everyone All others $10 have limited Saturday, September 25 Registration required by October to no 20th, call 964-8505 accessibility. Noon - 4 p.m. Please call For everyone 964-8505 Free - donaons appreciated CELEBRATE THE POWER OF at least two BRIDGING FAITH AND ECOLOGY* days before the program Fall Festival for Created by the Interfaith Earth Network and partners, this date if open house will highlight the success of local congregations’ you have Afternoon Nappers* green initiatives. Enjoy an afternoon of inspiration and accessibilitiy live music (Jeff Bray, Jahmes Tony Finlayson, Holly needs. A Fall Fesval program for the young ones! Enjoy a Haebig). Green teams will demonstrate their sustainable puppet show, cra , and outdoor acvies. living, faith education and advocacy projects. Children’s Scholarships activities and refreshments available as well. See www. are available interfaithearthnetwork.org for more information. for all Saturday, September 25 fee-based 10:30 a.m. - noon Sunday, October 24 programs. For kids 5 and younger accompanied by an adult 1 - 4 p.m. RP Free - donaons appreciated For adults and children Registraon required by accompanied by an adult September 24, call 964-8505 Free-donations appreciated Call to register, 964-8505 7 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

FAMILY PROGRAMS PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS MONARCH BUTTERFLY PUMPKIN CARVING SCIENCE SATURDAYS* TAGGING* SOCIAL* Discover the world of science GO NUTS FOR Join us as we carefully catch, tag Looking for the perfect pumpkin through self-led interactive SQUIRRELS!* and release monarch butterflies who for your porch? Want to get activities and crafts. Topics: are on their migration to Mexico! a leg up on your neighbor’s September: Weird Water We see them every day, but We will be supplying valuable data scariest design? Then bring October: 4 Seasons what exactly are squirrels to scientists at the University of your best gourd to the Center up to? We’ll explore their Kansas through MonarchWatch, and use our stencils and tools to Every Saturday world through music, a national research project. create a chilling masterpiece. 9:30 - 5 p.m. play and exploration. For everyone WP Wednesday, Friday, October 22 Tuesday, Free - donations September 21 RP September 1 5 - 6:30 p.m. appreciated 5 - 6 p.m. WP For everyone 10 - 11:30 a.m. WP $2 SCIENCE SATURDAYS GET READY, Thursday, (Nonmembers - $3) & SUNDAYS* WINTER’S COMING!* RP September 2 Call to register, 964-8505 Drop in and discover the world of Join us for a morning of 5 - 6 p.m. science through self-led interactive stories, games and songs as For adults and children YOUNG SCIENTISTS activities and crafts. Topics: we discover how the animals accompanied by an adult CLUB* September: Weeds! in and around the Center $3 (Nonmembers - $5) Become a Young Scientist and October: The Animals that are preparing for winter. Call to register, 964-8505 do fun science, research and Live in Our Animal Room stewardship projects in our parks!! Tuesday, Drop-in program October 19 RP DISCOVERY HIKES Every Monday - Every Saturday 10 - 11:30 a.m. Kids, come and have fun as we Wednesday except 9:30 - 5 p.m. & RP discover the natural world of September 6 RP Sunday Our preschool programs Riverside Park. Every month we’ll 4 - 6 p.m. 12:30 - 5 p.m. are for kids 2-5 years old explore something new! For adults and accompanied by an adult September: Predators and Prey. Every Tuesday - Friday accompanied children Please, no more than Join us on a stroll around Riverside 4 - 6 p.m. Free - donations appreciated 3 children per adult Park, where we’ll play games and and explore the lives of Milwaukee’s ANIMAL FEEDING* Every Saturday $8 for the first child, $4 hunting animals. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. WP October: The Fall. The leaves Come to either location to help for an additional child fall, the temperatures drop, feed the Center’s resident turtles, (Nonmembers - $12 for and animals get ready for For kids ages 5-15 years snakes and fish as you learn the first child, $7 for an old, parents welcome about the animals that inhabit winter in many different ways. Riverside and Washington Parks. additional child) Come join us as we learn about Free - donations appreciated $4 per child needing the most colorful season! (Nonmembers - $5 Every Saturday childcare during the Saturdays, annual membership) 1 - 2 p.m. RP program For everyone September 11 & YOGAKIDS FUN, FITNESS Call to register, October 9 RP Free - 964-8505 AND FEELING GREAT! donations 10:30 a.m. - noon WP For kids ages 4 and older Increase your child’s strength, appreciated flexibility and ability to focus and accompanied by an adult concentrate through this fun and $4 or $12 for families of 4 or playful class. Kids will learn tools more (Nonmembers - $7 or and techniques to relax and feel $21 for families of 4 or more) great. Games, ecology, music and Call to register, 964-8505 learning about the body and mind are all part of YogaKids classes. MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS COASTAL CLEANUP HIKE Every Tuesday C.A.L.S. TRIP CREEPY CAVING Celebrate Coastal Awareness month 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. For everyone Who’s Cal and why is he taking Face your fears on a Halloween by walking along Lake Michigan’s WP awesome coastline, playing games Free - donations a trip? C.A.L.S. stands for UW exploration deep under the ground and learning about what we can do appreciated Madison’s College of Agriculture at Ledge View Nature Center’s to help our beautiful water source. and Life Sciences. Middle and caves in Chilton, Wisconsin. Call to register, 964-8505 high school students are invited Wear clothes that can get super Sunday, September 26 to spend the day exploring the muddy. Bring a flashlight and Noon - 2 p.m. HOMEWORK HELP* College and learning about its a change of clean clothes. Space For families with kids Getting divided on a math programs. Space is limited! is limited so sign up early. ages 5 and over problem? Science not sticking with Thursday, October 28 Friday, October 29 Adults: $5 RP you? We’re here to help. Bring in your homework and together we’ll 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Nonmembers - $7) get it done just in time for dinner. Middle and high For high school RP Children: $3 school students students (Nonmembers - $5) Every Tuesday - Free - donations RP $10 (Nonmembers - $12) Call to register, 964-8505 Thursday appreciated Registration required by 6 - 7 p.m. WP Reserve your spot no October 28th, Call 964-8505 For youth later than October Free - donations appreciated 21st, call 964-8505 8 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

ADULT LEARNING

“MEET THE BEES” HANDS-ON ORNITHOLOGY BIRDS AND WISCONSIN WORKSHOPS* WIND FARMS* WORKSHOPS AND DISCUSSIONS These monthly workshops Wind power is a great source BEE HIVE INSPECTION* delve into the mysterious and of alternative energy, but there wonderful world of birds looking are concerns about the impacts Open the Urban Ecology Center’s Beepod and see our bees at work! at current research and well- of wind turbines on birds. By Follow a biweekly inspection by a beekeeper instructor. Learn about established topics, including using observations of birds in pollen, nectar, honey and brood. See workers doing daily tasks. Spot mating systems. Presentation areas where wind farms are the drone bees, maybe even find the Queen! Best to wear white will be followed by a dusk planned and comparing them to clothing and little perfume. Space is limited, sign up early. birdwalk. Binoculars provided. observations after construction of Saturdays, September 4 & 18 Wednesday, wind farms, we can get a better 10 - 11:30 a.m. understanding of how birds are September 8 WP affected. Results of research on For adults RP 5 - 6:30 p.m. local Wisconsin wind farms and $15 (Nonmembers - $20) their impacts on resident and Call to register, 964-8505 Saturday, migratory birds will be discussed. October 2 BEESENTATIONS: ALL ABOUT THE BEES!* Speaker: Julie Garvin, 3:30 - 5 p.m. RP avian biologist, Bees and Beekeeping Revealed! Bees play an important role in our environmental consultant food systems. This is an introduction to bees and beekeeping. Learn the For adults difference between wasps and bees. Discover who’s inside the hive and Tuesday, $10 (Nonmembers - September 14 how people have managed bees for pollination and honey. Whether $20) Free for regular you want to start a dance with bees through beekeeping, or just learn 7 p.m. RP of the dance they do to find nectar, this course gets you buzzing. birding volunteers For adults Call to register, 964-8505 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month Free - 7 - 8:30 p.m. BIRD BANDING* donations appreciated (Nonmembers - $5) For adults RP Few experiences compare with $15 (Nonmembers - $20) feeling the rapid heartbeat of a bird Call to register, 964-8505 Call to register, 964-8505 in your hand while releasing it back to the wild. Join us for coffee EAT LOCAL CHALLENGE BEEKEEPING BASICS: and an up-close look at birds. BOOK DISCUSSION* COURSE & CERTIFICATION* Take time to read during the Eat Every Tuesday, Local Challenge (the first two weeks Three 2-hour courses will give you a foundation to start beekeeping. September 14 - of September). The Urban Ecology From determining the type of hive to placement, rules, installation, October 12 RP inspections, treatment, harvesting and overwintering; you will learn what Center and Boswell Books presents to expect and how to deepen your new relationship with bees. You are Early mornings a community book discussion of required to pass a test to receive a Beepod Certificate for Beekeeping. For adults and Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and accompanied children a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Mondays - 3 week series Free - donations welcome Alisa Smith & J.B. Mackinnon September 13 - 27 or October 4 - 18 Contact Tim at x116, or (may also be titled, Plenty: Eating 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. RP tvargo@urbanecologycenter. Locally on the 100-Mile Diet). For adults org for details Tuesday, $140 for the series September 14 RP (Nonmembers - $150 for the series) SAVOR THE TASTE OF 7 - 8 p.m. Call to register, 964-8505 SUMMER: PICKLING For adults and teens SUMMER’S FARE* Free - donations appreciated SUNDAY BEEKEEPING SYMPOSIUMS* Canning fruits and vegetables Call to register, 964-8505 Continue your learning with these in-depth, 2-hour courses dealing with in a vinegar base is an age old specific issues important to beekeepers. practice for preserving summer’s BEGINNING T’AI CHI Topics: harvest. The instructor will guide Spend rush hour learning a new October 3: Swarming participants in their hands-on approach to physical fitness and October 17: Honey Extraction efforts to preserve vegetables mental/spiritual well being. Often Sundays, October 3 & 17 such as green beans and pickles. called “meditation in motion”, Canning materials, produce, T’ai Chi promotes balance and 1 - 3 p.m. RP handouts and recipes are included For adults strength with a flexible, relaxed $50 (Nonmembers - $60) Tuesday, September 14 or and integrated body and mind. Call to register, 964-8505 Tuesday, This gentle exercise is great for all September 21 levels of physical ability. This class 6 - 8:30 p.m. RP will be held weekly for 3 months. For adults Every Wednesday, WANT TO RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL UPDATES? $25 in advance, September 15 - $35 at the door December 15 RP Sign up for the Weekly Guide e-newsletter! Every Call to register, 964-8505 5 - 6 p.m. Wednesday you’ll receive an email with updated For adults and teens information about the programs and events $10 per session, payments coming up in the next week and timely content due monthly (Nonmembers highlighting special programs, providing “green” living tips, and more! To sign up, click on the - $12 per session, Weekly Guide link on our home page. payments due monthly) Call to register, 964-8505 URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER (rp) = Riverside Park (wp) = Washington Park (wps) = WP Senior Center (bh) = Boathouse SEPTEMBER 2010 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 4-6p Young Science Saturdays - all month WANT TO RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL UPDATES? 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Scientists (wp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) Weird Water (wp), Weeds! (rp) 9a Park Rangers (wp) Sign up for the Weekly Guide e-newsletter! Every 4-6p Young Scientists 4p Burdock (wp & rp) Brigade (wp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) Wednesday you’ll receive an email with updated Wow! Tuesdays sure 5p Monarch Butterfly 4-6p Young Scientists 10a Bee Hive Inspection (rp) information about the programs and events are busy! Tagging (wp) (wp & rp) 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) coming up in the next week and timely content 6-7p Homework 5p Monarch Butterfly 10:30a Volunteer Orientation (rp) Help (wp) Tagging (rp) highlighting special programs, providing “green” 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) 5:30p Riverside Park living tips, and more! To sign up, click on the Building Tour (rp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) Weekly Guide link on our home page. 6-7p Homework Help (wp) 6:30p Photo Club (rp) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Science Sundays - all month All Urban Ecology Center 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 4-6p Young Science Saturdays - all month Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. locations closed 9:30a Belayer Training (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Scientists (wp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Topic: Weeds! (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) Weird Water (wp), Weeds! (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 4p Burdock 9a Park Rangers 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) (wp & rp) 4:30p YogaKids (wp) (wp & rp) Brigade (wp) 5p Ornithology (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 10a Volunteer 5:30p Bike Ride (rp) (wp & rp) Orientation (wp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) 5:30p Kayaking 101(bh) 6p Friends of 6p Water Safety (rp) 10:30a Discovery Hike (rp) 6:30p Volunteer Orientation (rp) Real Food (rp) 6-7p Homework 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) 6:30p Victory Garden Initiative (rp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 7p Beesentation (rp) Help (wp) 7p Echo Poets (rp) 7p Stargazers (rp) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) Early Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 2p Volunteer Science Saturdays - all month Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. 6:30p Beekeeping 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Orientation (rp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Topic: Weeds! (rp) Basics (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) 4-6p Young Weird Water (wp), Weeds! (rp) 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 4p Burdock Scientists (wp) 9a Park Rangers (wp) Washington Bark 4:30p YogaKids (wp) (wp & rp) Brigade (wp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) Dog Days (wp) 5:45p College Climb (rp) 5p Beginning T’ai 4-6p Young Scientists 10a Bee Hive Inspection (rp) 11a - 3p Chi (rp) (wp & rp) 10a Gluten Free Dutch 6p Pickling Summer’s Fare (rp) 6-7p Homework 6p Water Safety (rp) Apple Pie (rp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) Help (wp) 6-7p Homework 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 7p Birds and WI Wind Help (wp) Farms (rp) 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) 6:30p Vegetarian 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 7p Eat Local Challenge Potluck (rp) Book Discussion (rp) 1p Kayaking 101(bh) 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) Early Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 4-6p Young Fall Festival for Afternoon Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. Scientists (wp) Nappers (rp) Topic: Weeds! (rp) 4-7p 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Sustainable 10a Go Nuts for Squirrels! (rp) Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) 10:30a Building Exhibit (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 4p Burdock Fall Festival (rp) Noon-2p 6:30p Beekeeping 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) (wp & rp) Brigade (wp) Noon-4p Sustainable Basics (rp) 5p Beginning T’ai 4-6p Young Scientists 9a Park Rangers (wp) Building Exhibit (rp) 4:30p YogaKids (wp) Chi (rp) (wp & rp) 7p Green Frugality 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 101 (rp) 5:30p Bike Ride (rp) 6-7p Homework 6p Water Safety (rp) 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) 6p Pickling Summer’s Fare (rp) Help (wp) 6-7p Homework 6-7p Homework Help (wp) Help (wp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 7p Beesentation (rp) 26 27 28 29 30 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) Early Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. 6:30p Transition 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Topic: Weeds! (rp) Milwaukee (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) 6:30p Beekeeping 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 4p Burdock Noon Coastal Cleanup Basics (rp) 4:30p YogaKids (wp) (wp & rp) Brigade (wp) Hike (rp) 7p Green Frugality 5p Beginning T’ai 4-6p Young Scientists 3p Knitting Circle (rp) 102 (rp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) Chi (rp) (wp & rp) 6-7p Homework 6p Water Safety (rp) Help (wp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER (rp) = Riverside Park (wp) = Washington Park (wps) = WP Senior Center (bh) = Boathouse OCTOBER 2010 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 4-6p Young Science Saturdays - all month WE’VE GOT NEW TSHIRTS! Scientists (wp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: AvAvailable in September, these brand new shirts are made of eitherr 4 Seasons (wp), Our Animal Room (rp) recycled materials or organic cotton and sport two designs: 9a Park Rangers (wp) “THE POCKET” LOGO 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) Show your support and your If you’re serious about your 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) playful side at the same time! support, this shirt is for you! 10:30a Volunteer Orientation (rp) 11a Arboretum Volunteer Both styles come in a variety of colors of recycled and Training (rp) 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) organic materials in Men’s, Women’s and Youth sizes! 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 3:30p Ornithology (rp)

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) Early Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 4-6p Young Science Saturdays - all month Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. 6:30p Bee Keeping 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Scientists (wp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Topic: Our Animal Room (rp) Basics (rp) 11a Arboretum Volunteer Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) 4 Seasons (wp), Our Animal Room (rp) Training (rp) 4p Papermaking (rp) 4p Burdock 9a Park Rangers (wp & rp) 1p Sunday 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) 4-6p Young Scientists Brigade (wp) 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) Beekeeping 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) (wp & rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 10:30a Discovery Hike (rp) Symposium (rp) 5p Beginning T’ai (wp & rp) 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) 2p Art Opening: 4:30p YogaKids (wp) 5:30p Bike Ride (rp) Chi (rp) 6p Water Safety (rp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) Surrealists’ and 6-7p Homework 6-7p Homework V ertigo In Flatland 6-7p Homework Help (wp) Help (wp) Help (wp) 6:30p Victory Garden Initiative (rp) 6:30p Photo Club (rp) 7p Beesentation (rp) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) Early Bird Banding (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 4-6p Young Science Saturdays - all month Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. 6:30p Radical 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Scientists (wp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Topic: Our Animal Room (rp) Homemakers (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) 4 Seasons (wp), Our Animal Room (rp) 10-10-10 6:30p Bee Keeping 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) 4p Papermaking (rp) 4p Burdock 9a Park Rangers (wp) To ur with Ken (rp) Basics (rp) 4:30p YogaKids (wp) 4-6p Young Scientists Brigade (wp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 1p (wp & rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) (wp & rp) 6:30p Volunteer Orientation (rp) 5p Beginning T’ai 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) Chi (rp) 6p Water Safety (rp) 7p 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) 7p Organic Lawn Care (rp) 6p Friends of 6-7p Homework Real Food (rp) Help (wp) 6-7p Homework 7p Echo Poets (rp) Help (wp) 7p Stargazers (rp) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 4-6p Young Science Saturdays - all month Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. 10a Winter’s Coming! (rp) 9a Riverside Park 10:30a Burdock Scientists (wp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Topic: Our Animal Room (rp) 4-7p Sustainable Building Exhibit (rp) 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) Building Tour (rp) Brigade (wps) 5-6:30p Pumpkin 4 Seasons (wp), Our Animal Room (rp) 6:30p Radical 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) 4p Papermaking (rp) 4p Burdock Carving 9a Park Rangers (wp & rp) Noon-2p Social (wp) Homemakers (rp) 4:30p YogaKids (wp) 4-6p Young Scientists Brigade (wp) 10a Gluten Free Foods (rp) Sustainable 6:30p Bee Keeping 5:30p Bike Ride (rp) (wp & rp) 4-6p Young Scientists 10a Book Club (rp) Building Exhibit (rp) Basics (rp) 5p Beginning T’ai (wp & rp) 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 1p Sunday 6-7p Homework Help (wp) Chi (rp) 6p Water Safety (rp) 7p Beesentation (rp) 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) Beekeeping 6-7p Homework 6-7p Homework 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) Symposium (rp) Help (wp) Help (wp) 6:30p Vegetarian Bag It: Is Your Life Too Plastic? (rp) Potluck (rp) 7p 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Science Sundays - all month 4-6p Young Scientists (rp) 9a Burdock Brigade (rp) 8a Birdwalk (wp) 8a Birdwalk (rp) 9a Creepy Science Saturdays - all month Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. 6:30p Transition 4-6p Young Scientists (wp & rp) 9a Riverside Park 9a CALS Trip (rp) Caving (rp) Drop in 9:30a-4:30p Topics: Topic: Our Animal Room (rp) Milwaukee (rp) 4-6p Open Climbs (rp) Building Tour (rp) 10:30a Burdock Brigade (wps) 4-6p Young 4 Seasons (wp), Our Animal Room (rp) Bridging Faith and Ecology 6:30p Radical 4:30p YogaKids (wp) 4p Papermaking (rp) 4p Burdock Brigade (wp) Scientists (wp) 9a Park Rangers (wp & rp) (rp) 1p Homemakers (rp) 6-7p Homework Help (wp) 4-6p Young Scientists 4-6p Young Scientists 10a Volunteer Orientation (wp) 31 (wp & rp) (wp & rp) 11a-4p Young Scientists (wp) Science Sundays - all month 5p Beginning T’ai 6p Water Safety (rp) 1p Animal Feeding (rp & wp) Drop in 12:30p-4:30p. Chi (rp) 6-7p Homework Topic: Our Animal Room (rp) 6-7p Homework (wp) Help (wp) 3p Knitting Circle (rp) 9 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

ADULT LEARNING CONTINUED URBAN ADVENTURES

GLUTEN-FREE DUTCH RADICAL HOMEMAKERS OPEN CLIMBS ON THE TOWER WALL* APPLE PIE WORKSHOP* DISCUSSION COURSE* Extend your skills on the Center’s three-story climbing wall. In this hands-on class, Laura Steele Radical Homemakers describes Equipment and belayers provided. All climbers must have a will walk you through making your the story of pioneering men completed and signed waiver before climbing, available at the own gluten-free pie crust, apple and women who are redefining Center’s reception desk and at www.urbanecologycenter.org. pie filling and streusel topping to feminism and the good life by make a fantastic Dutch Apple Pie adhering to simple principles of Every Tuesday to fit the autumn season. Make your ecological sustainability, social 4 - 6 p.m. own pie to take home with you! justice, community engagement For adults and kids RP and family well-being. Join this ages 7 and older Saturday, September 18 4-week discussion course on this Adults: $7 (Nonmembers - $10) 10 a.m. - noon renewed way of living. Book Children: $5 (Nonmembers - $8) For adults and purchase included in fee, facilitator Registration required, call 964-8505 accompanied children RP will coordinate book pick-up Adults: $25 and first reading assignment. KAYAKING 101 (Nonmembers - $30) Co-sponsored by The Come learn the basics of kayaking. We will start with a brief lesson Children: $12 Victory Garden Initiative on land and then continue the lesson on the Milwaukee River. Bring (Nonmembers - $15) Mondays, October 11 - a snack or dinner with you and we can eat on the water! Come Registration required, November 1 prepared to get wet and bring something to hydrate yourself! call 964-8505 6:30 - 8 p.m. RP Note: Meet at the Rowing Club Boathouse SUSTAINABLE For adults (1990 N. Commerce St.) BUILDING EXHIBIT* $30 (Nonmembers - $35) Wednesday, September 8 Registration is required by Remodeling, adding on or building 5:30 - 8 p.m. a new home? Visit the Center’s October 4, call 964-8505 or Saturday, September 18 Sustainable Building Exhibit for 1 - 4 p.m. ORGANIC LAWN For adults and kids ages 12 and older accompanied by an adult ideas to beautify your home while CARE FOR HEALTHIER honoring the environment. This SOILS AND HEALTHIER Adults: $25 (Nonmembers - $30) is a hands-on library of sample COMMUNITIES* Children: $20 (Nonmembers - $25) products for home construction Call 964-8505 to register and interior decorating. Earthcare Natural Lawn and Landscapes is an all-organic WATER SAFETY COURSE* Sundays, lawn care company that has September 19 & served Milwaukee since 2004. Interested in borrowing our canoes or kayaks? Come take a 30-minute October 17 Darrell will discuss tangible water safety course to make sure that you are ready to get out on the Noon - 2 p.m. RP steps that homeowners can water. This is a requirement of the canoe/kayak lending program. Mondays, take to grow beautiful lawns, Every Thursday starting September 9 September 20 & October 18 improve soil quality and 6 - 6:30 p.m. protect natural resources. 4 - 7 p.m. For everyone RP For adults Speaker: Darrell Smith, Free - donations appreciated Free-donations appreciated President, Earthcare Natural (Nonmembers - $5) Call to register, 964- Lawn and Landscapes Call 964-8505 to register 8505; walk-ins welcome Tuesday, October 12 COLLEGE CLIMB NIGHT* 7 p.m. RP GREEN FRUGALITY* For adults It’s college night at the Urban Ecology Center! Scale the Center’s 40-foot Find out how a local CPA and Free - donations appreciated climbing wall. Instruction and gear provided. This is a great way for you to try an Environmental Consultant (Nonmembers - $5) out this exciting sport! Interested in becoming one of our volunteer belayers? practice Green Frugality; actions Call to register, 964-8505 Come and meet our instructors and learn about the Urban Ecology Center’s large and small that benefit unique teaching opportunity, belaying school children during our programs. the environment and your GLUTEN-FREE BREADED Tuesday, finances. 101 covers shelter, food, FOODS WORKSHOP* entertainment and community September 14 activity choices. 102 focuses on Learn breading the gluten-free 5:45 - 7 p.m. RP transportation, health care, clothing way! Laura Steele will demonstrate For college students and household goods. Bring your chicken fingers and tempura $3 per climb own ideas & experiences to share. battered seasonal vegetables paired Call 964-8505 to register with delicious herb yogurt dipping 101: Monday, September 20 sauce. Come prepared to get your 102: Monday, September 27 hands into the food and cook! 7 p.m. Saturday, Advanced registration is required for all Urban Ecology Center For adults October 23 Urban Adventures. Payment is due at time of registration. $10 RP 10 a.m. - noon RP (Nonmembers - $15) Cancellation Policy: When payment is required in advance For adults and for a program, you may cancel up to 48 hours in advance Call to register, 964-8505 accompanied children Adults: $25 without penalty. If the Center cancels a program for any Coming soon! reason, the payment will be refunded or can be used toward Green Investing: (Nonmembers - $30) Savings that Support Children: $12 a future program. Call the Center at (414) 964-8505 Environmentally Responsible (Nonmembers - $15) to register at least two days before the trip. Trips run as Investments for the Future Registration required by scheduled rain or shine, at the discretion of the trip leader. Check our next issue for details October 22nd, call 964-8505 10 RP = Riverside Park WP = Washington Park

ART AT THE INTEREST GROUPS CENTER UEC PHOTO CLUB* FRIENDS OF REAL FOOD* KNITTING CIRCLE* NOW SHOWING: Explore nature in an artistic light Share a potluck dinner and join If you are new to knitting or INTERLUDE: and develop new skills. Check the enthusiastic, informative an experienced knitter, please QUIET SPACES RP out our website at www.uecpc. discussion or program. join us for a cup of coffee, good org. Newcomers welcome! conversation and knitting. Show runs through September: Savor and Celebrate September 25 Thursdays, Local Food: Join the Eat Local Sundays, September 26 & Katherine Steichen Rosing’s September 2 & Challenge! Share a potluck dinner October 31 abstract paintings reveal the October 7 RP of fresh and tasty local food from 3 - 4:30 p.m. RP essence of rippling ponds, 6:30 p.m. our gardens, area farmers and/or For everyone patterns of bark and forests in For adults locally owned businesses. Discuss Free-donations appreciated rain as she explores cycles of Free - donations appreciated how we’ve defined the Challenge transformation, growth and for ourselves and tips we have TRANSITION decay. For more information TUESDAY EVENING for eating locally all year long. MILWAUKEE* visit www.studioksr.com. BIKE RIDE October: Slow Money and Land Transition Milwaukee is part of Are you looking for a fun way to Trusts. Speakers: Beth Gehred an international movement to ART SHOW OPENING: get outdoors, exercise and meet of Town and Country RCD and address the challenges of climate SURREALISTS’ new people? Join us as we bike the Angela Curtes of the Yggdrasil change and peak oil. We are AND VERTIGO Oak Leaf Trail and beyond on an Land Foundation. Slow Money is working to rebuild local resilience IN FLATLAND evening ride! Route and distance a grassroots attempt to create an through creating community Sunday, October 3 will vary depending on riders’ investment tool to transform both projects to grow our own food, 2 - 4 p.m. (Artists will preferences (15 miles average). our local food infrastructure and generate our own power, develop give a talk at 3) Bring your own bike, helmet and the excess return-rate appetite of our own economies and reskill. water bottle, or borrow ours. venture capitalism. The Yggdrasil We invite you to join in our For everyone monthly Hub meetings. Free - donations RP Tuesdays, Land Foundation is a new form of land trust that provides preservation Mondays, September 27 & appreciated September 7, 21, and access opportunities for October 5 & 19 RP October 25 Surrealism, a concept of communities that integrate RP dissidence and surprising 5:30 - 7 p.m. sustainable agricultural practices. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. juxtapositions of things that For adults For adults don’t normally go together, Free - donations appreciated Wednesdays, September 8 & Free - donations appreciated inspired Kate Loehrer and (Nonmembers - $10) October 13 (Nonmembers - $5) Philip Krejcarek in their Call to register, 964-8505 6 - 8 p.m. RP Childcare available: $4 Surrealists’ series. Combining For adults (Nonmembers - $6) sculpture and photography. VICTORY GARDEN Free-donations appreciated Call to register, 964-8505 they created a series from INITIATIVE: EAT discarded or used objects, AND MEET* URBAN ECHO POETS* THE URBAN ECOLOGY recycling them as art. In CENTER BOOK CLUB* Vertigo In Flatland, Jim Join the Victory Garden Initiative Our purpose is to observe and Zwadlo paints the urban at a monthly Eat and Meet. This experience nature, then to express The Book Club meets once a month pedestrian from the aerial is a meeting for newcomers as these observations in poetry and to discuss local and environmentally point of view. This choice well as active VGI volunteers. We essay. We will read and write themed books. Newcomers of subject and point of start at 6:30 with a potluck and at and appreciate poetry with and ongoing participants are view make it possible for 7:00 we break into workgroups. images from nature at its core. invited to come enjoy the him to present complex Tuesdays, Thursdays, September 9 & conversation and refreshments. abstract ideas using only September 7 & October 14 October: Cream City Chronicles: simple, realistic imagery in a October 5 RP 7 p.m. RP Stories of Milwaukee’s familiar, recognizable context. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. For adults Past by John Gurda Refreshments served. Show Free - donations appreciated runs through late December. For everyone Saturday, Free-donations appreciated URBAN STARGAZERS* October 23 10 - 11 a.m. RP URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER TOURS Join us for fun, information and stargazing. For adults BOOK YOUR OWN TOUR! Free-donations appreciated Can’t make it to one of our free building tours or do you have a group Thursdays, September 9 & of five or more who want to visit? Private garden, green building, October 14 EARLY MORNING branch and park tours are available for individuals or groups. Please 7 p.m. RP BIRDWALKS contact Mike at 964-8505, x126, for fees and scheduling. For adults Interested bird watchers of Free - donations appreciated all ability levels are invited RIVERSIDE PARK BUILDING TOURS* to explore bird life with us. VEGETARIAN POTLUCK* Binoculars available. Get an insider’s view of the Urban Ecology Center’s Bring a plate and fork along Every Wednesday Riverside Park’s green facility through these staff-led tours. WP Explore and learn about our innovative building design and with your meatless dish to share 8 a.m. programming from the folks who are “in the know”. at our picnic style meal. Thursdays, September 16 & Every Thursday Thursday, September 2, 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. RP RP October 21 8 a.m. Every Wednesday, 9 - 10:15 a.m. 6:30 - 8 p.m. RP For adults & accompanied children For adults and For adults and Free - donations appreciated accompanied children accompanied children Call 964-8505 to register Free - donations welcome Free - donations appreciated 11

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES CONNECTIONS by Susan Winans, Volunteer Coordinator

EAT LOCAL CHALLENGE VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION PAPERMAKING Join people thoughout our state and challenge Want to spend more time outside? Join other volunteers as we learn yourself to eat more locally than you currently Looking to work alongside ecologically- the art of recycled papermaking do during the first two weeks of September. minded people? Interested in sharing to create beautiful gifts for Celebrate and learn about eating locally at the events below. For more information and your gifts with the community? our Center’s supporters. Come find out how you can resources check out eatlocalmilwaukee.org Riverside Park contribute your time and talents Every Wednesday in October September 1, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. — to the Urban Ecology Center. Westown Market Celebration 4 - 6 p.m. Zeidler Union Square (On Michigan Riverside Park For adults and accompanied children Free - donations appreciated between Third & Fourth Streets), • Saturdays, September 4 & learn more at westown.org Call to register, 964-8505 October 2 September 8, 6 - 8 p.m. — 10:30 a.m. - noon PARK RANGERS Friends of Real Food, Dress for the weather and join other Urban Ecology Center, • Tuesdays, September 7 & volunteers as we walk through Riverside Park location October 12 the parks picking up trash and 6:30 - 8 p.m. September 11, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. — noting any maintenance needs. Local Food Festival at Fondy • Friday, September 17 Market, 2200 W. Fond du Lac Ave., 2 - 3:30 p.m. Riverside Park learn more at fondymarket.org. 2nd, 4th (& 5th) Saturdays of Washington Park the month(no Park Rangering September 14, 7 - 8 p.m. — on September 25th!) Book discussion, Plenty by Alisa • Every Saturday 9 - 10:30 a.m. Smith & J.B. Mackinnon, 10 a.m. Urban Ecology Center Washington Park Riverside Park location For everyone Every Saturday Free-donations appreciated 9 - 10 a.m. SAVE YOUR PLASTIC POTS! For adults and accompanied children SAVE THIS DATE! Free - donations appreciated BELAYER TRAINING Clean up for fall and do a good thing for the Call to register, 964-8505 environment by bringing your pots (any Join our team of trained and color and size with recycling numbers 2, enthusiastic rock climbing volunteers BURDOCK BRIGADE 5 and 6), polystyrene cell packs and trays and help with climbing programs of The Burdock Brigade engages in and hanging baskets to Boerner Botanical all kinds! At this training you will Gardens for recycling. For more information hands-on restoration activities: contact Shirley Dommer Walczak, Gardens learn our policies and procedures for removing exotic invasive plant species Director, 414-525-5603 or Patti Peltier, belaying climbers and facilitating and propagating and planting native UW-Extension Horticulture Center at Boerner climbing programs. Attendance is species in order to preserve and restore Botanical Gardens, 414-525-5638. Volunteers limited and pre-registration is required. native vegetation and animal habitats. are needed and appreciated. Please help! September 23-25 Riverside Park Riverside Park 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, September 7 9:30 am-noon • Every Tuesday Southeast corner of Boerner Botanical 9 - 11 a.m., Gardens parking lot For adults 9400 Boerner Drive, Hales Corners Free - donations appreciated • 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month Call to register, 964-8505 9-10:30am WILD ONES’ NATURAL Washington Park LANDSCAPING WITH NATIVE ARBORETUM VOLUNTEER PLANTS CONFERENCE TRAINING • Every Thursday Reducing greenhouse gases, conserving water, Come to one of two sessions that will 4:30 - 6 p.m. guarding against flooding, providing habitats introduce volunteers to a variety of Washington Park Senior Center for birds and insects are a few reasons why opportunities to create and improve 40 Wild Ones promotes replacing lawns with • Every Thursday native plants. To help people learn how to acres of diverse native habitat between 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. help slow down global warming and prevent North Avenue and Locust Street. extinction of America’s birds and insects, Wild This area will include the new Rotary For everyone Ones is sponsoring this one-day conference. Centennial Arboretum funded by the Free - donations appreciated Program choices will include homeowner Rotary Club of Milwaukee and the US experiences, plant choices and more. Environmental Protection Agency Cardinal Stritch University Saturday, October 23 Riverside Park 8:30 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. Saturday, October 2 or For more information about the Tuesday, October 5 Wild Ones visit www.for-wild.org/ 11 a.m. -noon conf or call 414-299-9888, x3. Free-donations appreciated 12

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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 those of you who have begun a new membership, renewed your membership or given a gift membership. Since our membership has grown to 3000 households we no longer can list all of our new and renewing members here. When space is available we will print the list of in kind donations. Rest assured we appreciate every donation and membership and are working hard to make your investment in the Center produce results 7 days a week, 357 days of the year! Call Ginger at the Center if your name has not appeared as you expected. FOUNDATIONS / family - Theresa Lins Jennie Lane and Jennifer CORPORATIONS/ - Burke Scholars - Andrew & Mike and Sara Larson Bolger-Breceda ORGANIZATIONS Class of 2010 Kimberly James and Judith Mark Browning Bank Of America Jackie & Al Keltner Marley Lewis Peter Campbell Charitable - Joan & Mike - Shirley Wagan Les and Roxann Lucas Kevin and Judy Carr Foundation Friedman - Waukesha Mothers Gisela and Achin Monique Charlier and C&N Family Mary Lerner of Twins Club Ludwig Holly Blomquist Foundation, Inc - Ben & Bob for Danny Richardson Sam Macklem John and Christi Constance P. Godfrey Mother’s Day - Kim Taylor Phil Marx Clancy Jeff McAvoy’s birthday James McLure and Eric and Elsie 2004 Trust DONORS The Cudahy - Jessica & Charles Lisa McClure Crawford Foundation Doughty David Anderson Kevin and Carrie Michael and Evan & Marion - Beth Fetterley and Laura Petrie Ann Moore Lisa Cudahy Helfaer & Fred Heller Anderson Rebecca Neumann Eddee Daniel and Foundation, Inc. Audrey Poorman’s JoAnn Bachar Rebecca North and Lynn Kapitan Faye McBeath birthday Marcus Bassett Adolph Paul Derek and Michele Foundation, Inc. - Mary Devine Julie Berkopec Cassie Sajkowski Deubel Forest County - Mary & Steven Kelly and Joel Karen and Peter Sands Greg and Dana Dorf Potawatomi Keane Bocanegra Joan Schimmels Mary and Duane Foundation, Inc. - Kim Likness Jacqueline Boynton Patricia Shires Dunsirn Glenn Consulting, - Josh & Jennifer and Peter McAvoy Katherine Smith Beth Fetterley and LLC Schafer James and Judy David and Maureen Fred Heller Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. - Wendy Wallace Burdett Steinhafel Dan and Pat Fetterley Johnson Ohana - John and Margaret Marilyn Carrington Luke Stuhr Robert and Ellen Charitable Wittkowske The Davis Family Carolyn Kott Gardiner Foundation Rebecca Neumann’s David Fenner Washburne Danni and Shel P & H Mining birthday H. Lowell Hall Ryan Wilson Gendelman Equipment - Anonymous John Hambrook Lori Gendelman - Amy and Keith Linda Hunn 3RD ANNUAL and Jim Ippolite Plymouth Church SOLSTICE SOIREE Bender Dale and Elinor Jeff and Kathy Geygan Rexnord AND AUCTION Richard & Ethel - Scott D. Drewianka Ihlenfeldt Dennis Grzezinski Herzfeld Foundation Erv Russell’s birthday Jewish Community DONORS and Jane Porath - Scott Russell Foundation, Inc. Jill Pedigo Hall Rockwell Automation Deb and Marc Gabriele Jung Connie and Philip Shaved Care Andraca GIFTS IN William and Hardacre MEMORY OF… Cameron and Julie Art GIFTS IN Kathy Kean David and Margarete Nancy Aten and HONOR OF… Jerry Krause Judy Knight and Harvey Dan Collins Christi & John Alan Rank Marvin Heller The wedding of Ginny and T. Clancy Josh Knox and Troy and Elizabeth Andy Borland & Michael Bolger - Judith Gifford Gretchen Mead Hilliard Audrey Miller Tim and Mary Bowers - Jill Heth John and Susan Leander and Susan - Ben & Catherine Jacqueline Boynton - Mr. and Mrs. Krezoski Jennings Love and Peter McAvoy William Kojis Harvey Kurtz and Mary and Charles The Richard Burke Enrique Breceda - Jim and Lori Krause Yvonne Larme Kamps 13

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Susie and Fred Kasten Ian Spanic Charitable Bill and Eva Rumpf INKIND Jeanne Salmon Linda and Jerry Susan & Leander Foundation Alterra Coffee Roasters Samara Studios Kilmowicz Jennings Foundation Susie and Fred Kasten Jeff and Melody Jim Schleif and Julilly Kohler Debby and Curt Kathy’s Kleaning Anderson Bill Morley Kathy Krause Tomczyk Service Anonymous Schwanke Kasten Sarah and Jess Carl Trimble and Amy LaMacchia Rose Daitsman Jewelers Langerman Nancy Schoene Land Escape Dunne Commercial Sherrikayaks Cora Lee-Palmer Melissa and Erik Landmark Theatres Properties Shoot the Moon Ken and Shauna Ugland Marcus Hotels Beth Fetterley and Photography Leinbach Carolyn Kott and Resorts Fred Heller Shorewood Animal Theresa Lins Washburne Jennifer and Danni and Shel Hospital Sherry and Richard Ronald A. White James Marino Gendelman Southwest Airlines Lundell and Laurel Kohl Geri Miller Terry and Pat Graves Spectrum 305 Studio Sandford and Edwin and MillerCoors Alix Groves Sprout Katharine Mallin Barbara Wiley Milwaukee Art Dennis Grzezinski Studio In Between Linda and Abe Tracy Wilkins Musuem and Jane Porath Teecycle.org McCabe Mary and Ned Witte Milwaukee Chamber Brent and Kate The Betty Brinn Gretchen Mead IN KIND Theatre Halfwassen Children’s Museum and Josh Knox Milwaukee Cathie Hulder and Ale House The Private Tom and Monique Community Ernie Gauger Alliance Francais Bank N.A. Meyer Sailing Center Beth Kaplan and Melanie Ariens The Thief Wine Blake and Cheryl Milwaukee Steve Marshall Bear Paw Outdoor Shop & Bar Moret County Parks David and Elizabeth Adventure Third Ward Caffe Carolyn Morse and Milwaukee Lindsey Resort, LLC Erik and Melissa Peter Sheehan County Zoo Suzanne Lorenz Bel Canto Chorus Ugland Steve Morse and Milwaukee Public Carrie Neumann Bianchini LLC Tim Vargo Jane Waldbaum Museum Kristina Paris Blush Beauty, Inc. Wild Birds Unlimited Robin Mosleth Moda 3 Katie Rabideaux Bosley on Brady Tracy Wilkins Mary Louise Mussoline Bob and Barbara Patrice Schneeburg Braise on the Go Ned and Mary Witte Marian and Bill Monnat Brian Schwebel Brewcity Bruisers Wolf Design Nasgovitz Natural Lawn Care Ann Wegner LeFort Rollergirls Wyndham Milwuakee Thomas and of America and Ben LeFort Kathleen Nelson Crazywater Neroli Salon & Spa Airport Hotel Joanne Passaro Cream City Ribbon North Point WASHINGTON Jayne Pelton Diablos Rojos Lighthouse IN KIND DONORS PARK INKIND Restaurant Group Larry and Jeanne Friends, Inc. RIVERSIDE PARK Joanne Passaro Prochnow Eden’s Market North Shore Doggy Kate Raab Lori and Mark Falci Day Care Alice and Tim Susie Gebhardt North Shore Rorabeck Danni and Shel Elite Fitness & Lucy Rosenberg Gendelman Racket Club Bill and Eva Rumpf Horny Goat Brewing Palermo Villa Erv and Joan Russell Company Pat Damy Wood Lorette Russenberger Dan Gray Designs Thank and Sara Wilson Greenman Pinehold Gardens Jim Schleif and Alliance, LLC Pottery by Jessie You Bill Morley Harley-Davidson PUSH Functional Marsha Sehler Motor Company Fitness Anoop and Incentive Gallery REI - Brookfield Suzanne Singh Johnson Controls, Inc. Bela Roongta Eitel Deborah and Johnson Ohana and Mike Eitel Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage

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