Directions
Meet at the UW Arboretum Visitors Center. In Madison, heading west on the Beltline (Hwy 12), take the Seminole Highway exit and go north. After several blocks you will see the sign at the Arboretum entrance. Turn right into the Arboretum and continue until the road ends at the McKay Visitors Center parking lot.
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Frogs' Night Out, Mazomanie Wildlife Area
Dane County
Thursday, April 9, 6:45-9:00 PM
In partnership with: Madison Audubon Society
Field trip leader: Bob Hay, retired WDNR Conservation Biologist
Free and open to the public; call WWA to register: 608-250-9971

Bring a sense of adventure on this trip as you look at the world from a different perspective -- through sounds. Besides listening for a variety of frog calls, participants will learn about frog lifestyles and wetlands ecology. Bring a flashlight and dress for wet conditions.

Directions
Meet at the Mazomanie Wildlife Area at 6:45 p.m. From Hwy 14 in Mazomanie, drive north on County Hwy Y for about 4 miles. Just before the highway bends to the east (right), turn left on Law's Drive. Travel on the access road about 0.25 miles and turn left onto the first gravel road. Follow this about 1.5 miles until it deadends at a parking lot. The trip leader will be there to meet you. The trip will last until 9:00 p.m. Plan to walk about 1/3 mile to the site.

Come "see" the Cedarburg Bog in a brand new way - through sound. Listen for a variety of frog calls including Wood frog, Spring peeper, Chorus frog, and American toad and possibly Cope's gray tree frog and Eastern gray tree frog. We'll also learn about frog lifestyles and mating behaviors as well as ecology of the bog. Bring a flashlight and wear footgear that can get muddy and wet; bring rain gear if appropriate.

Cedarburg Bog is the most intact large bog in southeastern Wisconsin and composed of a mosaic of vegetation types. Once part of a large glacial lake, the bog is a relict community - a southern example of the type more commonly found in northern Wisconsin. There are six lakes remaining within the bog, all with varying sizes and depths. The 245-acre Mud Lake is the largest, followed by the 34-acre Long Lake. Surrounding the lakes are areas of emergent aquatic vegetation while just outside this zone is a successional shrub-carr area. Most unusual is a string or "patterned" bog, unique here because it lies far south of its usual range in North America. It is composed of ridges of stunted cedar and tamarack that lie in an open flat sedge mat. The meadow vegetation consists of narrow-leaved sedges, pitcher plant, bogbean, water horsetail, arrow-grass, orchids, and the insectivorous sundew and bladderwort. A conifer-swamp hardwood forest is adjacent to the bog. There is a very diverse flora and fauna; many that are more common in northern boreal forests and that are at their southern range limit here. Cedarburg Bog is owned by the DNR and UW-Milwaukee and was designated a State Natural Area in 1952.

Directions
The main Field Station property is located in the Town of Saukville, Wisconsin, about 30 miles (45 minutes) north of Milwaukee and 1 hour 45 minutes from Madison. Map here.

Backwater Riverboat Tour of the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Crawford County; boat leaving from Prairie du Chien
Saturday, May 30, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Field trip leader: Jon Stravers, Audubon Upper Mississippi River Initiative

Registration fees: $25-Member/ $32-Non-member/ $17-12 & Under
Join WWA today to get member rates. Space is limited on this popular trip!
Download a registration form here or call 608-250-9971 to reserve your spot.

Cancellation Policy: WWA will refund registration fees for cancellations made on or before Friday, May 15, 2009. No refunds will be made after this date. Thank you for understanding our need for this policy.

This trip is now full.
Please call 608-250-9971 if you would like to have your name added to our wait list.

Registration fees: WWA Members - $13, Non-members - $22, 12 & Under - $8
Join WWA today to get member rates.
Cancellation Policy: WWA will refund registration fees for cancellations made on or before Friday, September 4, 2009. No refunds will be made after this date. Thank you for understanding our need for this policy.

Take a ride in an antique open-air train approximately eight miles into Tiffany Bottoms State Natural Area’s extensive lowland hardwood wetlands and open wet prairies near the mouth of the Chippewa River.Participants can expect to see expansive lowland hardwood forests, sloughs of the Chippewa River and open wet prairie meadows with blooming flowers and grasses exceeding six feet in height. Tiffany Wildlife Area and Tiffany Bottoms State Natural Area offer excellent birding opportunities. The trip will be led by several naturalists and biologists from the WI Department of Natural Resources and UW-Eau Claire. Two to three hikes (0.25 - 0.5 miles each) are planned to access various wetland and prairie habitats. There will be a lunch stop during the day; participants should bring a bag lunch.

Directions
Durand is about 15 miles northeast of the Mississippi River, on the banks of the Chippewa River in Pepin County, WI. Durand is about 3.5 hours (200 miles) from Madison and 45 minutes (30 miles) from Eau Claire. From Durand, take State Highway 25 south approximately 4 miles. As you travel south from Durand, you will notice that Hwy. 25 parallels an old railroad track. Approximately 4 miles south of Durand, Thibodeau Road "T's" with Hwy. 25, on the east (left) side of Hwy. 25. To the west (right) look for a small Tiffany Wildlife Area parking lot. Park here; we will depart on the train from here. If you see a dozen or so railroad cars "in storage" along a track, about 200 feet to the west of the road, you have gone a bit too far south on Hwy 25.

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