Educational Programs
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Cattail Weaving and More
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Cattails galore on the marsh! Cattails have been used for many years to make many useful objects. A new adventure awaits! Together, let’s learn how to weave cattails and discover other uses for these abundant marsh plants.
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Know Your Park
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Each week we will have a different topic for you to learn more about the park’s geology, history, wildlife and more.
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Traversing Time: the Doughboys Trail
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Join the park naturalist to experience the park’s geology and natural history highlights, including flora and fauna along the trail.
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Can You Build It?
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Are you as good of an engineer as a bird? Design, build, and test your own bird nest to see if it is strong enough to hold eggs. Join us for loads of nesting fun!
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Naturalist Led Hike
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Join the Naturalist for this guided hike to learn more about Devil’s Lake.
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Fossil Hike
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What does Lakeshore State Park have to do with Niagara Falls? Come find out and learn some Wisconsin geological history as you explore the Lannon stone lining the park searching for fossilized coral, trilobites, brachiopods and cephalopods.
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Will your Boat Float?
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Ship’s Ahoy. Can you create a boat and get it to float? Let’s find out together. Join the group to engineer a boat out of natural objects and test it to see if it is marsh-worthy.
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Natural Resource Careers In Wildlife
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For high school juniors to university freshmen. Come to Sandhill Wildlife Area and the Mead Wildlife Area to learn from the Department of Natural Resources experts themselves. Mondays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
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Natural Resource Careers In Wildlife - Wildlife Technician
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Throughout the summer, high school juniors to university freshmen are invited to learn from DNR experts at Sandhill Wildlife Area and the Mead Wildlife Area.