Category: Green Page
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Food Scrap Compost Drop-Off Site Closing
Crossroads is closing its food scrap compost site to the public effective Nov. 6. Several factors led Crossroads to this decision, including its proximity to the City of Sturgeon Bay’s industrial compost site for yard waste; its proximity to another Door Community Compost Initiative [DCCI] food scrap drop-off site; and the organization’s land management goals. […]
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Don’t Let Your Pumpkin Go to Waste
Door Community Compost Initiative (DCCI), an organization dedicated to educating and inspiring the community about the benefits of composting, encourages you to keep your pumpkins out of the landfill in the Post-Halloween Pumpkin Drive. Each year, millions of pumpkins meet a ghastly fate in landfills, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and wasting valuable resources. DCCI […]
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New Webpage On Vapor Intrusion
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) launched a new webpage to help local governments address vapor intrusion in their communities. The Vapor Intrusion for Local Governments webpage at dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Vapor/LocalGovtResources.html provides tools and resources for local governments to address vapor intrusion in their communities, including information on locating contaminated sites, considerations for development or redevelopment, […]
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Graduate Position In Restoration Education
Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay is working in conjunction with the Environmental Science & Policy Program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UWGB) to hire a graduate student to research and create a community-based ecological restoration education program. In 2020, Crossroads began a full-scale land restoration effort with funding from the National Fish […]
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New Staff Members At Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership
Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership has hired two new staff members: Patricia Scuglik, the director of Partnerships and Programs, and Anna Ostermeier, communications coordinator. Scuglik holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Mary University in International Studies and a master’s from the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Milwaukee in Sustainable Peacebuilding with a focus in Freshwater Sustainability. She has […]
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Author Talk And Panel Discussion About The Fox River Cleanup
The Door County Environmental Council, in partnership with the Door County Land Trust and the Door County Library, is hosting “The Fox River Fix: The First Step Toward a Healthier Bay,” a discussion of the history behind the world’s largest environmental river sediment cleanup of its kind. P. David Allen II and Susan Campbell, authors […]
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Door County Antennas Tune in to Migrating Birds
Door County birders might see a short-billed dowitcher wading in the shallows during summer or early fall, but until now, they couldn’t tell where that bird came from or where it was going. Now that the Lake Michigan Bird Observatory has installed 20 radio-telemetry stations along the western side of Lake Michigan, biologists and the […]
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Community Tree Planting Oct. 20-21 in Sister Bay
The Climate Change Coalition of Door County is taking its tree-planting shovels to The Shoals apartment complex in Sister Bay on Oct. 20 and 21. The tree planting is sponsored by Door County Medical Center and Bridenhagen Tree and Landscape, and coordinated by the Climate Change Coalition of Door County, which created The Big Plant […]
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Author Dan Egan will discuss his new book, The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance, during a special Q&A-style edition of Crossroads at Big Creek’s Fish Tales lecture series on Oct. 16. Egan, who also wrote The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, is a New York Times best-selling author and […]
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Ground-Level Ozone Concentrations Show Modest Decreases
The elevated ozone concentrations historically found in the air along Lake Michigan shoreline communities – including Door County – from more southerly power plants, industry and transportation, have decreased, but only modestly over the past couple of years, according to the recently released 2023 Air Quality Trends Report from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources […]
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A Collaborative Celebration of Citizen Scientists
Door County has an amazing wealth of natural areas and hundreds of volunteers for multiple organizations who work individually and in teams to aid in ongoing and large-scale research projects and help protect, enhance and monitor dozens of sites. This month, for the first time on the peninsula, some of those organizations will band together […]
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Conference On PFAS In Northeast Wisconsin
The Clean Water Action Council (CWAC) of Northeast Wisconsin is hosting a conference Oct. 27, 8 am-2:30 pm at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay to educate about PFAS concerns and initiatives in the region. Dr. Beth Neary will discuss the health risks of exposure. Rob Lee from Midwest Environmental Advocates will present on the current legal […]
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Farming-Footprint Data Released
Three-year, on-farm sustainability progress report includes farms in Door and Kewaunee counties Results have been released from a multi-farm project in Kewaunee and Door counties that analyzed crop acres over three years to demonstrate the impact conservation practices can have on both natural resources and overall farm productivity. The project includes members from Peninsula Pride […]
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Seven things you might not know about forest threats and tree survival “Do you know what that is?” asked Lee Frelich, pointing down at a Frisbee-sized, disturbed swirl of leaves. The retired University of Minnesota professor, and one of the world’s top forest ecologists, told the group of hikers that a European earthworm (the species […]
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Presentation On Door County’s Vulnerable Geology
The Door County Environmental Council is hosting Dr. Maureen Muldoon, Ph.D., on Sept. 13, 7 pm, for “Why is the Silurian Dolomite Aquifer So Vulnerable to Contamination?” Muldoon is a licensed professional geologist and hydrologist in Wisconsin. She will discuss the hydrogeology of Door County’s silurian dolomite aquifer and explain the implications for water quality. […]
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New Website For Wisconsin Land Trusts
Gathering Waters, Wisconsin’s alliance for land trusts, has launched a new website with a Wisconsin land trusts section that offers information to landowners, communities and their members. See details about events and resources for land trusts at gatheringwaters.org.
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Slinger Student Wins State-Park Sticker Contest
A loon and chick floating on a calm body of water by Slinger High School sophomore Samantha Williams is the winning design for the 2024 Wisconsin State Park admission-sticker design contest. Williams’ design will be printed on state park and forest annual vehicle-admission stickers that will be displayed on more than 500,000 vehicles. The 2024 […]
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UW-Oshkosh Offers Well Testing
Door County residents with private wells are encouraged to participate in a groundwater-study program that UW-Oshkosh has been conducting since 2019. The program seeks to provide education about the importance of testing well water and build a database of Door County groundwater-quality data. The testing parameters included in the study are bacteria (total coliforms/E. coli […]
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The Ridges Sanctuary Adopts Master Plan
In 1934, as a bulldozer stood ready to tear up 40 acres of boreal forest in Baileys Harbor, it was met by fierce opponents. “If you go any further, you will have to scoop us up, too!” said Emma Toft, who, along with local builder Frank Oldenberg and a delegation of concerned Baileys Harbor citizens, […]
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Connecting Climate Change and the Soil-Loss Crisis
Renowned microbiologist and author coming to Door County It may be safe to assume that the majority of the American population has limited encounters with soil, given that 97% of the country’s land mass is considered “rural,” but those rural areas are home to only 19.3% of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census […]