Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center

You are invited to attend the Ashland and Bayfield Counties Non-Profit and Volunteer Fair on Tuesday, April 28th , 1-6pm at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center.  There will be over 40 non-profit organizations tabling at this event to share information on their mission, values, and programming.  You can learn how to support their work through volunteering, […]

Turner Road Farm in Bayfield is participating in the Audubon Conservation Ranching program! Come hear Ashly Steinke, who is the Wisconsin Grassland Ecologist for Audubon Great Lakes and leads the Audubon Conservation Ranching (ACR) program in Wisconsin. He will describe how program participants carry out regenerative grazing practices that use cattle as “habitat helpers,” to […]

April 24th at 7pm. Join us for “Gardening is for The Birds” with wildlife biologist Karin Kozie. Karin will talk to us about what trees, shrubs, and flowering plants to put in your yard to attract more birds. She’ll describe how to learn which plants are native to our area and where to purchase them. […]

Feb 13th at 7pm. Naturalist Emily Stone traveled to Michoacán, Mexico, in December 2022 to visit the sanctuaries where monarch butterflies overwinter. The temperate fir forests that cradle the butterflies sit atop high peaks of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. In a delicate balance between staying cool enough to conserve fat stores and warm enough not […]

Jan 16 at 7 pm. Ted May from Chequamegon Audubon describes his experience with a group of ten volunteers from northern Wisconsin on a working vacation in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. The presentation shares pictures of the area’s biological avian and other biodiversity and their work with local communities to protect those resources and sustain […]