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• "Preserve" Art Installation Hosted at the Arboretum June 10, 2025

  “The City of Madison Arts Commission is proud to announce the installation of Preserve, a temporary environmental art installation, which is now on display at… Read more

• Welcome Micah Kloppenburg June 2, 2025

  The Arboretum is pleased to welcome Micah Kloppenburg as our new ecological restoration outreach coordinator. Micah most recently worked for the Xerces Society as the… Read more

• Announcing the 2025 Arboretum Research Fellowship Recipients April 30, 2025

  The Arboretum is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Research Fellowships. Three UW–Madison graduate students have been granted fellowships for… Read more

• A Big Year for Volunteers and the Arboretum April 3, 2025

  What can a small group of committed individuals accomplish? A lot! What can a large group accomplish? Even more! When the group is 970 people… Read more

• Explore Citizen Science at the Arboretum April 3, 2025

  Nature is giving hints of warmer days ahead, and the first signs of spring are emerging all around us. On Saturday, April 5, from 1… Read more

• Longenecker Horticultural Gardens Celebrates Ninety Years April 3, 2025

  The Longenecker Horticultural Gardens are the UW–Madison Arboretum’s arboretum, containing the largest and most diverse collection of woody plants in the state. On… Read more

• Taking the Next Step for Pollinators: Musings of a People and Nature Researcher April 3, 2025

  February 13, 2025. I traversed a snowy Arboretum with arcing trees layered in glittery white piping to attend the morning Winter Enrichment lecture… Read more

• Art on View: All the while the earth was humming March 24, 2025

  “All the while the earth was humming,” an MFA thesis exhibition by Paulina King, is on view in Longenecker Horticultural Gardens March 18–April 12, 2025. Read more

• Marian Farrior: Restoration, Community, and Collaboration in Action February 4, 2025

  For the last twenty-two years, Marian Farrior has dedicated her work – at the Arboretum and with other environmental organizations – to a clear… Read more

• Everyone Learns with Capstone Classes at the Arboretum February 4, 2025

  UW–Madison students can experience the Arboretum as visitors, volunteers, employees, researchers, and learners. Some students visit the Arboretum once or twice during their… Read more

• Arboretum Volunteers: Welcoming Faces in Visitor Center Spaces January 7, 2025

  Walk into the Visitor Center and the first person to greet you will be, on most days, a volunteer. A team of twenty-seven volunteers staff… Read more

• Chad MacWilliams, All-Star Team Player, Retires January 7, 2025

  Chad MacWilliams’ official title is custodian, yet everyone on the staff knows that role only scratches the surface of all that he has done and… Read more

• Gardening with Native Plants: Winter Reading December 2, 2024

  December is the first month of meteorological winter and brings the shortest days of the year, often with cold and snow. Gardens are quiet this… Read more

• Director's Note, November 2024 November 4, 2024

  I am delighted to send out this first communication through ArbNews as the new director of the UW Arboretum. It is a tremendous honor to… Read more

• Art on View: Good Intentions October 22, 2024

  “Good Intentions,” an interactive outdoor sculpture by UW–Madison art student Mariah Skenandore, is on view in Longenecker Horticultural Gardens October 21 through November 18, 2024. Read more

• Brad Herrick, UW Arboretum Ecologist and Research Program Manager, Selected to Lead Lakeshore Nature Preserve October 2, 2024

  After seventeen years as the Arboretum ecologist and research program manager, Brad Herrick is stepping down to become the director of the UW–Madison Lakeshore Nature… Read more

• Longenecker Horticultural Garden Intern Digs into Garden Operations October 2, 2024

  As summer fades into fall, we are saying goodbye to Longenecker Horticultural Gardens’ (LHG) dynamic intern Jacinda Goldsby. Hailing from Marshall, Wisconsin, Jacinda contacted the… Read more

• Ecologist and former University of Central Florida Arboretum director named UW Arboretum director August 20, 2024

  Patrick Bohlen Patrick Bohlen, a professor of biology at the University of Central Florida (UCF), has been selected as the new director of the UW Arboretum. Read more

• Arboretum Launches Longenecker Horticultural Gardens Online Collections July 31, 2024

  We frequently hear some variation of this question from visitors: “How do I find [describes a tree or bench] in the gardens?” Sometimes people are… Read more

• Summer Volunteer Groups: Myriad Motivations, Many Rewards July 30, 2024

  Summer is a busy time for volunteer groups at the Arboretum, with at least one service project each week from June through August. Corporate groups,… Read more