A Native Plant Sale shopper admires pots of prairie grasses (Photo: Kathy King)
Friday, March 20, 2020
For 30 years, the Native Plant Sale held at the UW–Madison Arboretum has provided local gardeners with a reliable source for native plants. Since 1990, the Friends of the Arboretum…
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
The forest area occupied by monarch butterflies in Mexico during the winter of 2019–20 was 2.83 hectares (a hectare is 2.47 acres, almost the size of two football fields), down…
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
A major project is underway in Curtis Prairie to rehabilitate and restore an important stormwater retention pond. Visitors should watch for construction traffic on McCaffrey Drive and expect some trail…
Monday, March 9, 2020
Work has begun on the final phase of a $6.8 million effort to protect the UW Arboretum from urban runoff, which has washed out trails, eroded the land and helped…
