Workshop schedule

Sunday, August 4. Departs at 1:00 pm from the Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and returns to the Pyle Center at 4:00 pm.

Contact: Carol A. Strmiska, Rm 110 Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension, 702 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706. Tele: 608-265-2358/262-1122, E-mail: <strmiska@ecc.uwex.edu>.

Olbrich Botanical Gardens offer 10 specialty gardens (Sunken, Hosta, Rock, Wildflower, Herb, Perennial, Dahlia, Iris, Rose, and Shade) and a lush tropical conservatory with a rushing waterfall and free-flying birds, as well as the new Thai Pavilion and Garden (opening in June 2002). The butterfly exhibit will be an added attraction during your tour as approximately 1000 butterflies will be released in the conservatory every week of this special event. There will also be an exhibit of mounted insects provided by a Madisonian with one of the largest private collections in the nation. The garden is self-guided; stroll on your own through the grounds, conservatory, and gift shop. It’s only a 20-minute bus ride through the city to a world of beauty.

CT- 2 A Primer on Lake Limnology - Lake Mendota

Monday, August 5. Departs at 9:15 am from the Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and returns to the Pyle Center at 12:45 pm.

Leader: Susan Graham. Contact: Susan Graham, Wisconsin Lakes Partnership, Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources, South-central Regional Headquarters, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd., Fitchburg, WI 53711. Tele: 608-275-3329, E-mail: <grahas@mail01.dnr.state.wi.us>.

Lake Mendota is a large (9,730 acres), deep lake lying in the heart of the Madison area. Owing to its location within a big watershed in a fertile landscape, its waters, albeit naturally fertile, now suffer from an overdose of nutrients. While cruising the lake aboard a pontoon boat, participants will to learn how excessive fertilization has affected the ecology of the lake and what corrective measures can be employed in an attempt to maintain water quality. The leader will describe different types of lakes, demonstrate monitoring equipment, explain the use of data in evaluating lakes, and discuss management of undesirable aquatic vegetation. Note: due to potential danger from lightning, the trip will be canceled if there are thunderstorms in the area.

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CT -3 Wine and Cheese Tour

Contact: Carol A. Strmiska, Rm 110 Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension, 702 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706. Tele: 608-265-2358/262-1122, E-mail: <strmiska@ecc.uwex.edu>.

Touring, tasting, and shopping. The Wollersheim Winery is tucked away in a peaceful valley on a scenic hillside overlooking the Wisconsin River, where skilled vintners began making wine over 140 years ago. You’ll tour the vineyards, learn about the European art of wine making, visit the underground limestone caves where fine wines are aged in wooden casks, and taste the premium wines. Because cheese goes so well with wine, you’ll continue your tour at the Cedar Grove Cheese, Inc., makers of organic cheese and inventors of the A Living Machine@ patented water treatment system. Your guided tour will provide you with information on the art of cheese making and allow you access to the viewing area. Retail shops are available at both tour stops. On your return to Madison, you’ll stop at Leystra’s Restaurant, at a turn-of-the-century building in Sauk City, for an afternoon snack. Pie and ice cream, about a dozen kinds of each, are the big attractions.

CT- 4 University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum: Preserving the Past, Benefitting the Future

Tuesday, August 6. Departs at 8:45 am from the Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and returns to the Pyle Center at 11:30 am.

Leader: Kenneth W. Wood. Contact: Kenneth W. Wood, P. O. Box 81, Black Earth, WI 53515-0081. Tele: 608-767-3343, E-mail: <kwwood@facstaff.wisc.edu>.

With more than 1200 acres of biological communities and horticultural plantings, the Arboretum offers unparalleled opportunities to experience the natural world in an urban setting. On this tour you will hike through prairies, woodlands, and wetlands. As you walk the trails you’ll encounter many species of wild flowers in bloom in Curtis Prairie and discover birds and dragonflies along the wetland boardwalk. Naturalists will share with you some of the history of the Arboretum - home to the world’s oldest restored prairie and the birthplace of restoration ecology - and help you learn the many ways in which plants and animals have adapted to survive in different communities.

Wednesday, August 7. Departs by coach at 9:00 am from the Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and returns to the Pyle Center at 5:30 pm.

Contact: Carol A. Strmiska, Rm 110 Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension, 702 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706. Tele: 608/265-2358/262-1122, E-mail: <strmiska@ecc.uwex.edu>.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869B1959) spent his childhood years in Madison and returned to live in the area when he was at the height of his international fame. Your first stop will be at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in the heart of Madison on Lake Monona. Proposed in 1938 but not built until 1997, it might well be considered Wright’s final masterpiece. After the tour, board the air-conditioned coach for a drive past two private Wright-designed homes in Madison, the Airplane House and the Jacobs residence, the original AUsonian house, before touring the Unitarian Meeting House, designed in the late 1940s. Then you’ll head west out of Madison to Mazomanie for lunch at the historic Old Feed Mill, an 1857 stone flour mill, from which it is only short distance to the FLW Visitor Center, formerly a restaurant designed by Wright and now the starting point for all Taliesin tours. You’ll have a one-hour tour of the Hillside Studio and Theater; this tour is the best introduction to FLW and his work. Wright designed Hillside in 1902 for his aunt’s boarding school. He transformed the building in 1932 into its current use as the center of activity for the architectural practice and school. Taliesin is on the outskirts of Spring Green, a small town with a large population of artisans. You’ll have some time for shopping or looking around before returning to Madison.

Thursday, August 8. Departs by coach at 8:00 am from the Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison campus, and returns to the Pyle Center at 12:30 pm.

Contact: Carol A. Strmiska, Rm 110 Pyle Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Extension, 702 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706. Tele: 608-265-2358/262-1122, E-mail: <strmiska@ecc.uwex.edu>.

The ICF works worldwide to conserve cranes and the wetlands and grasslands on which they depend. A collection of cranes is maintained at the Baraboo headquarters, where captive breeding and reintroduction into the wild are pursued as two techniques for crane preservation. This is the only place in the world where whooping cranes, America’s tallest bird and foremost symbol of conservation, are exhibited in a natural setting. You can talk with human chick parents as they feed and exercise their brood. You can view museum displays, slide show, videos, or the gift shop before or after your guided tour. Learn more about cranes and their behavior, and at 11:45 a.m. see a crane demonstrate flight over the prairie.

9:15 am - 12:45 pm	CT-2	A Primer on Lake Limnology - Lake Mendota
9:30 am - 4:30 pm	CT-3	Wine and Cheese Tour

August 2-4: Forum on Botanical Education & Outreach
August 4-7: Annual Scientific Conference

Pyle Conference Center
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

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Tour schedule

August 2-4: Forum on Botanical Education & Outreach August 4-7: Annual Scientific Conference

Pyle Conference Center University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin

Local/Companion

Tour schedule

August 2-4: Forum on Botanical Education & Outreach
August 4-7: Annual Scientific Conference

Pyle Conference Center
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin