With the coming of fall and winter, we again return to our indoor meetings. We have a great line-up of presentations and we hope you will join us. We meet at the Wehr Nature Center on (usually) the second Saturday of the month at 1:30 pm. Our indoor meetings are open to the public at no charge but there is a parking fee at the nature center.
Our next meeting is
FEBRUARY 8, 2025; 1:30 PM:
Eddee Daniel: A Wealth of Nature: Parks and Natural Areas in Southeast Wisconsin
“A Wealth of Nature” is a project spearheaded by Eddee Daniel and Preserve Our Parks, a non-profit dedicated to preservation and promotion of parks and open space. Eddee has traveled throughout the Milwaukee region documenting the area’s abundance of nature and recreational opportunities. Eddee will describe the project, the challenges parks are facing, what Preserve Our Parks is doing about them and share his beautiful photographs from all over SE Wisconsin.
Bio: Eddee is a Milwaukee-based photographer, writer and curator of The Natural Realm, a blog about nearby nature. He has over 30 years of experience as a teacher and public speaker and is the author of “Urban Wilderness: Exploring a Metropolitan Watershed” and “The Milwaukee River Greenway: A Wealth of Nature in the Heart of the City.” Eddee is on the board of Preserve Our Parks.
A Wealth of Nature Project website: www.awealthofnature.org
Looking forward to:
MARCH 1, 2025 (1:30 PM): NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE FROM OUR REGULAR MEETING DATE!
Dr Josh Kapfer: Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin
APRIL 12, 2025 (1:30 PM):Danielle Bell: “Going From Turf to Habitat” Excellent for new members!
We hope you can join us! If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]
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The Milwaukee Southwest/Wehr chapter is an active & vibrant chapter serving southern Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties. We offer new member support, mentoring, an extensive lending library, excellent programs and field trips, seed exchanges, and native plant sales. We pride ourselves on good communication and quality programming in a supportive, friendly setting. Visit us at an upcoming meeting or click on “Join” to join our chapter.
With it’s “roots” in the “Natural Landscaping Club” founded at the Wehr Nature Center in the early 1980s, our group was the second official chapter of the fledgling Wild Ones organization.
Our long history of association with the Wehr Nature Center, part of the Milwaukee County Parks system, has given us a solid foundation on which to grow our membership and influence in southeast Wisconsin.
We meet on the second Saturday of the month at the Wehr Nature Center, 9701 W. College Ave Franklin, WI 53132 (in Whitnall Park in southwest Milwaukee County).
Programs from October through April offer presentations on native plant landscape design; woodland, prairie, wetland and savanna plant communities; native plant support of wildlife and native plant propagation and much more. These meeting are open to the public at no charge. (The Wehr Nature Center charges a small parking fee).
From May through September we tour yards with native plant landscapes and local natural areas. Generally, these tours are for members-only, but memberships are always available on the day of the tour.
Links to previously recorded meetings:
April 2023: Paul Sparks with Wisconsin Dragonflies. https://youtu.be/tWQrM2cDoEY
Also, here is the link to our February 2022 presentation with Jennifer Lazewski, “Gardening for Birds”:
and the link to our March 2022 meeting with Jeff Kante, “How to Identify Trees in Winter”: https://youtu.be/GrTd63xvPc4
and the link to our April 2022 presentation with Danielle Bell, “The Forgotten Layer”, all about native shrubs: https://youtu.be/D3dyo6qbqUg