North Lakeland Discovery Center - Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin

Discover a jewel in the
northern landscape!

The North Lakeland Discovery Center is a community-based environmental learning center that promotes stewardship of the region’s natural and cultural resources. The Center is located on a 63-acre site in the heart of northern Wisconsin's tranquil Lakeland destination region.

Core values include a belief that the acquisition of knowledge and skills is a life-long undertaking. Through various means including recreation, discussion, display, and field study, The Discovery Center offers a diversity of experiential learning opportunities. Programs are based on the premise that the better we understand our natural environment, the more likely we are to accept our shared responsibility to look after it.

Volunteers on Strongheart's Maiden Voyage
Click here to view a slide show of the restoration of our
25 foot 1926 Old Town War Canoe, "Strongheart".

ARCHIVED NOTES
Click here for earlier Nature Notes!
Archives go back to October 2003.
Check it out to see what was happening this time last year,
or the year before...
Archived Notes for Current Year · Notes for 2003-2008 (PDF)

2009 PHENOLOGY and Nature Notes by Naturalists, Zach Wilson and Licia Johnson

1/15/10: January thaw. Unseasonably warm temperatures. If I'm not mistaken this seems to be fairly common for January.-Z 1/1/10: Great walleye bite over the new years weekend.-Z

12/31/09:Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. A blue moon is the second full moon in a month.

12/21/09: Winter Solstice - Cold temperatures with lots of good snow -Z

12/17/09: 200+ Bohemian waxwings were seen in a tree in the Minocqua area -L

12/14/09: 6 more inches of snow today. -Z

12/7/09: Tom Joseph went for a lunch time ski and came across 15 trumpeter swans down on the river trail.-Z

12/5/09: Statehouse Lake finally froze today: I believe that this is the lastest in the 9 or so years that I have been watching.-Z

12/1/09: Reports of black bears still roaming around the northwoods.-Z

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Interested in learning about last years phenology? Check out our Archived Notes. Thanks and have a great Winter.

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Seen some interesting birds or other wildlife at your feeder or
in your back-yard recently? Click here to send us your
observations so we can add them to our collection.

If you:

enjoy participating in outdoor field experiences and learning new skills;
wish to enhance your appreciation of the region's nature, culture, and history;
like to attend fun yet thought-provoking community events where you can meet people of kindred spirit;
would enjoy use of our facilities, 25 acre lake, and miles of hike, bike and ski trails; and,
hope to instill in children an appreciation of our unique natural environment; then please…

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Already a member and interested in other support opportunities: A number of special funds are generously supported by our members and friends, including
• Equipment Fund
• Schools Environmental Education Fund
• Bill Lambrecht Interpretive Trail Fund
• Endowment Fund

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CLICK HERE FOR 2009 JUST TRI IT TRIATHLON DETAILS AND RACE RESULTS

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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ART EXHIBIT

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Aquatic Invasive Species

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