Spring is springing around Devil's Lake State Park! Over the weekend we discovered a variety of spring flowers blooming on sunny, south facing slopes. Soon spring flowers will be blooming all around the park. Here's a few that we found…
We've received a lot of questions about the status of Parfrey's Glen & Pewit's Nest State Natural Areas which were closed due to COVID early in 2020. Now that Gibraltar Rock & the Dells of the Wisconsin River SNAs have…
November is a great time of year for us "non-sciency" types to get a feel for the health of our forests. How? Well, pretty much everything you see that is green (and some red), probably shouldn't be there. They're invasives!…
Below we've posted photos of a dozen plants you'll see right now out on Devil's Lake State Park's Steinke Basin Trail, featuring their flowers, berries, and seeds. How many can you name? Extra points if you can ID that green/orange…
I photographed this amazing rock stacking artwork at Devil's Lake State Park just a few years ago. It is cool, isn't it!? Today, talking about rock stacking is a "triggering" event. I mean, everyone's triggered these days and that's part…
The public still has time to comment on the Property Master Plan for the "Central Sand Hills Ecological Landscape" which covers much of our area's popular natural attractions including Devil's Lake State Park, Parfrey’s Glen, Pewit's Nest and Gibraltar Rock…
Garlic mustard invades the forest and takes over. It crowds out native plants, flowers, and wildlife food sources. It can even change the soil so that other plants can't grow! But picking it and tossing it on the trail just…
With southern Wisconsin state parks opening back up today folks are going to be looking forward to getting back out on the trails and seeing how spring has come to life since the last shut down. Well, if you get…
I like to take a moment here and there to share with you some of the critters that make Devil's Lake State Park their home. While out snowshoeing (And enjoying the sunshine!) a couple of days back, we noticed a…
Author & environmentalist, Edward Abby wrote that the "idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.". Today, especially here in Wisconsin, the "pristine" wilderness he spoke of is mostly long gone. Our land, even our parks such as…