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Natural Environments
and Service Learning
Presented by
Pat Fojut, Director Nature in the Parks
/ University of Wisconsin - Extension
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What do you like to do at the park?
Parks are important to
people of all ages.
For nature study,
recreation, and solitude
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Nature
Education
Recreation
Gardens
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Earliest parks were private gardens that had
entrance fees
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1891 :
Washington
and Sheridan
Parks added.
Grant Park
and a nursery
to grow new
trees was
created in
1915.
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Civil Conservation Corp (CCC) built this
waterfall in 1935 to create Mallard Lake
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• Wehr Nature Center was completed in 1974.
• We need to protect the trees and wildlife from invasive plants.
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• Wehr and other parks supports birds,
fox, and the Butler’s Garter Snake.
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• People pressure,
making too many
volunteer trails.
• Pollution
• Invasive plants
The wild turkey needs
seeds from wildflowers
and trees along with
insects.
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Garlic Mustard is an invasive
problem in the forest
Scientists found a beetle that will help
control this plant in the forest.
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Lesser Celadine is an invasive
problem in the forest.
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The wildflowers we want to protect
include buttercup.
Can you see a difference?
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Dames Rocket is an invasive
problem in the forest.
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Trilliums, Jack in the pulpit and
twinleaf are flowers to protect.
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Taking the garlic mustard and lesser celandine
out of the forest in spring is most effective.
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Plant native plants Young plants flagged to be sure to
water them and watch them grow.
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Nature exploring and helping keep
Our parks wild is good for all of us.
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Thanks for your Help
We Are YOUR Milwaukee County Parks
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Buckthorn is an invasive plant that
takes the place of food favorite
shrubs and young trees.
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A weed wrench can be helpful to
remove older buckthorn in the fall.