Earth Day Community Day Schedule:

All-Day Activities
You may stop-in for any of these activities throughout the event.

• Bird watching station
  • What birds can you find at Upham Woods? Stop by our bird-watching station to check out binoculars to use while you explore.
• Self-guided Hike
  • Explore Upham Woods mainland trails and use iNaturalist to record all your new discoveries!
• Meet our reptiles
  • Come meet our painted turtles, box turtles and milk snake!
• Pollinator seed planting station
  • Help us get our pollinator garden started for the year! You also be able to bring some seed starts home to start your own garden.

Scheduled Programs

Conservation Projects

• Trail building:  10:15- 11:45 am
  • Help us build new trail toward our South beach!
  • Note: This activity is strenuous and requires walking about 1/2 and up a staircase. Recommended age 12+.
• Trail Clearing: 11:00-12:00
  • Help us prepare our mainland trails for a summer of hiking!
  • This activity will be a little bit easier than trail building. Use loppers, rakes and your hands to get trails ready for the summer! Recommended age 8+.

Afternoon Programs

• Guided Blackhawk Island Hike:  12:30-2:00 pm
  • Spend the afternoon exploring Blackhawk Island with one of our naturalists, learning about the local environment and cultural history.
• Children’s Story and Craft time: 1:00-1:45 pm
  • We cant celebrate Earth day without bugs! Ready a picture book with a naturalist and then make your very own bug hotel. Recommended age 2-8 but all are welcome!

If you need an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Johanna Desprez by emailing desprez@wisc.edu or calling 608-254-6461. Johanna can also answer general event questions. Please contact us if you can no longer come so we can remove you from this list.