Welcome to the Milwaukee Southwest/Wehr chapter of Wild Ones

With the coming of fall, 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:

OCTOBER 12, 2024 (1:30 PM): Pat Fojut: “Nature by Moonlight:  Native Gardens at Night” Pat is a former naturalist at Wehr and has a spectacular native yard. The program will highlight what happens in her backyard after the sun goes down. While monitoring butterflies and moths for 10 years, Pat has found exciting insects, sounds and nature in her 20 year old prairie.

Followed by:

NOVEMBER 9, 2024 (1:30 PM): Eric Manges: “Where Meteorology and Ecology Meet”

DECEMBER 14, 2024 (1:30 PM): Annual Holiday Part

JANUARY 11, 2025 (1:30 PM): Local restoration experts Marek Landscaping

FEBRUARY 8, 2025 (1:30 PM): Danielle Bell: “Going From Turf to Habitat”

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): Eddee Daniel: Nature in the City

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

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Reach us at:  [email protected]

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.