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Riverside Park

Friday, May 24th

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Menomonee Valley

Friday, May 24th

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Will you accept the challenge?

Teams of four teens and one adult chaperone will navigate their way through Riverside Park tackling wilderness survival challenges including: climbing, fire building, orienteering, hiking, team building, and more! Join us for the challenge on May 25th!

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Become A Sponsor!

By sponsoring a tree, you will help us transform post-industrial land into the Milwaukee Rotary Centennial Arboretum, a flourishing native ecosystem!

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More... Celebrate Nature in the Heart of the City    

Celebrate Nature in the Heart of the City

Join us for a magical summer evening filled with dinner, entertainment, and a silent auction. Proceeds will directly benefit the neighborhoods and natural environments in which we carry out our mission.

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Have Fun Roughing It!

Kids in our Young Naturalists Overnight Adventure learn outdoor and wilderness survival skills, then get to put those skills to the test during a two-day camping trip! Limited spots still available; register now!

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Our Mission

The Urban Ecology Center fosters ecological understanding as inspiration for change, neighborhood by neighborhood.  

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      • Impact of Urban Nature
        Written by Beth Heller
        Monday, April 29 2013
        Impact of Urban Nature

        When we started this project we now affectionately call the Urban Ecology Center, we had a dream, a concept for implementation and a process to get us there. Our expectations for success have been significantly exceeded – never in our wildest dreams did we expect to have three vibrant environmental community centers up and running so soon from our beginnings in a trailer parked in Riverside Park. But are we really having the impacts we set out to accomplish? Are students really learning? Are our parks, that we claim are now safe, really being used? Is providing nature in the city and exposing people to it really making a difference? And how do we actually know?

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      • See for Yourself - Our Neighborhood Environmental Education Project
        Written by Urban Ecology Center
        Thursday, May 23 2013
        See for Yourself - Our Neighborhood Environmental Education Project

        The Urban Ecology Center's Neighborhood Environmental Education Project (NEEP) is wrapping up it's 13th school year! And our first year at our Menomonee Valley branch. That's 13 years of kids connecting with frogs, birds, turtles, the land, science and each other.

         

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      • Go Outside and Play: Fish
        Written by Terrance Davis
        Thursday, May 23 2013
        Go Outside and Play: Fish

        Fishing with children is an activity that will never go out of style. There is nothing like the adrenaline rush you get when there is a fish on your line and you are wrestling to reel him in. Once that fish is out of the water flipping and spinning at the end of your pole you feel like a true fisherman. It is definitely an accomplishment. I feel this way because I have seen the look of achievement on so many faces after catching a fish. Once you get past the initial "yuck" and "no ways" when hooking worms, you see a light turn on inside of them as they realize this sport can actually be fun... until you have to take the hook out of the mouth of the fish- then there will be more expressions about how gross it is. This can sometimes be entertaining for the adult sharing in this experience.

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