Stories indexed under: Arboretum

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• Spring Sprint 5K benefits UW Arboretum March 19, 2013 Inviting runners to kick off Earth Week, help welcome spring and celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Friends of the UW Arboretum is hosting the Spring Sprint for the Arb on Saturday, April 13.
• ‘Madison Reads Leopold’ to be held March 2 at Arboretum Feb. 21, 2013 As part of the Madison area's celebration of Aldo Leopold Weekend, there will be a free public reading from "A Sand County Almanac" and other Leopold works on Saturday, March 2, at the UW Arboretum Visitor Center. Leopold was the first research director at the Arboretum and was closely involved in its design.
• First Lady Tonette Walker to lead Arboretum walk Oct. 15, 2012 Tonette Walker, Wisconsin’s first lady, will hike around the University of Wisconsin Arboretum Tuesday as part of her Walk with Walker series of events.
• Native Plant Sale welcomes spring May 4, 2012
• April’s Spring Sprint benefits UW Arboretum March 28, 2012 Stretch your legs for running season on Saturday, April 14 at the third annual Spring Sprint for the Arb, presented by Nakoma Dental.
• Madison Reads Leopold set for Saturday at UW Arboretum Feb. 28, 2012 The UW-Madison Arboretum — where Aldo Leopold helped establish a pioneering experiment in ecological restoration — will host Madison Reads Leopold, a public reading from Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” on Saturday, March 3, in celebration of Aldo Leopold Weekend.
• Arboretum director to return to teaching Feb. 16, 2012 Kevin McSweeney, a University of Wisconsin-Madison soil scientist who has directed the university's internationally famous Arboretum since 2004, announced this week that he is relinquishing that administrative post and returning to the faculty.
• Arboretum Local Products Expo encourages shopping green and local Nov. 22, 2011 Holiday shopping takes on a local, sustainable twist at the Close to Home: Arboretum Local Products Expo Sunday at the UW Arboretum.
• New pond will protect Arboretum, Lake Wingra from stormwater influx Aug. 18, 2011 There's nothing secret about the Secret Pond restoration project at Nakoma Road and Manitou Way. Any time trees fall and bulldozers roll at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, people take notice.
• "Plants of the Arboretum" program set Sunday May 20, 2011
• April’s Spring Sprint benefits UW Arboretum March 25, 2011 Hot on spring's heels comes the second annual Spring Sprint for the Arb presented by Nakoma Dental.
• Online map allows visitors, naturalists to share Arboretum experience Nov. 1, 2010 If the UW Arboretum were just a pretty place to take a walk, its new Interactive Map wouldn't need much more than crisscrossing trails, grey blobs for parking lots and symbols marking the restrooms.
• Recent sightings: Blooming crabapples May 3, 2010
• Arboretum prairie burn underway April 1, 2010
• Come out and play at the Arboretum March 24, 2010
• Public invited to learn about Wisconsin's wetlands June 17, 2009 Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, the public is invited to join hundreds of wetland scientists and advocates next week during the joint meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Wisconsin Wetlands Association and Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium.
• Birthplace of ecological restoration celebrates 75 years June 17, 2009 During the Great Depression, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists looked over several hundred acres of eroded farmland on the outskirts of Madison and envisioned its rebirth. To Aldo Leopold, the pioneering wildlife ecologist and conservation sage, the beat-up farmland offered an opportunity to restore nature in a way that had never been done before.
• Recent sightings: Turkey trot Nov. 25, 2008
• Ancient mounds make UW-Madison a unique landscape Nov. 10, 2008 The UW-Madison campus includes 38 effigy and burial mounds in six groupings.
• Restoring order: UW Arboretum runoff solutions combine ecology and engineering Oct. 8, 2008 In spring 2008, a class of undergraduate and graduate engineering students studied a section of Wingra Marsh to learn more about the hydroecologic effects of the massive stormwater inflow. "Stormwater management infrastructure throughout the Arboretum is failing due to age and increased flows of runoff from the surrounding watershed," says David Liebl, a UW-Madison engineering professional development faculty associate who chairs the Arboretum stormwater committee.